Tuesday 10 May 2022

Yellow Eggs

I was pruning some overhanging branches on a fruit bush when I spotted a flash of yellow on one green leaf.

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On a closer look I could see a group of tiny yellow eggs.

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Just the subject for another macro focus stacking session. Here I set up the Canon M5 with 18 - 150mm zoom lens and added the Raynox MSN-202 super macro conversion lens on my home brew automatic stepper unit.

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The results - closer views of the eggs of a Large White Butterfly - often called a Cabbage White as cabbage leaves are one of the plants they often lay their eggs on for the caterpillars to consume.

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I wrote about my home brew Arduino driven automatic system HERE in 2020. The first of today's macro photos used eleven shots, each with a slightly different focus, stacked using Helicon Focus. The second used 20 shots.

5 comments:

  1. Wow! what amazing shots of those tiny eggs! Will you put them back out in the yard to see if they hatch?

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    1. Ellen, they would and decimate any brassicas within crawling range,

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    2. Ellen: Thank you. No. They are a real pest for home vegetable growers such as my next door neighbour. I did think about a time-lapse video of them hatching but the leaf was already wilting and drying out.

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  2. Once again you are the King of the stackers. Brilliant job.

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    1. Adrian: Thanks, but I have a long way to go to achieve the focus perfection I would like. (P.S. Both your guesses got through OK yesterday)

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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