330 image stack of Stigmodera sp. Head is 2-3mm across. Taken with an El-Nikkor 50mm f2.8 enlarging lens reversed onto a Nikon PB-6 bellows. This is an High Dynamic Range (HDR) combined image of three 110 image plane focus stacks. Don't try this at home unless you've got lots of processor power !

For more information about creating images like this visit this page: Macro information

For more macro images look under insects in my Gallery pages.

TIRPOR is not a commercial site. It's main intent is to share my photography and some of my hobbies with friends, family and visitors.

Feel free to explore and please contact me if anything seems broken (email link at bottom of page).

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What's new

Aug 2010: starting major site redesign - lots of links may be broken and menu structures and formats behaving bizarrely

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6 Oct 2007: added geolocation map on this page.

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