Jumper spider cleaning feet by Gustavo Mazzarollo on Flickr.
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Keep the feet clean is a very important maintenance for a male spider. These spider rely on them for movement and even communication purposes, I see them doing this cleaning very frequently. A photography opportunity, as the spider needs to stop to do it. Time enough to expose for the background sky and take the picture of the spider with fill flash.
The photo reflect a frozen in time moment of a interesting action to watch trough viewfinder, of the spider doing it.
This photo with Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens @ 5x, mounted on Canon 7D, 1/20 second exposure and f/7.1, by the lens extension this turn in a effective aperture of about f/42.6
Wild bee by Gustavo Mazzarollo on Flickr.
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No interesting activity to be shown this time, found it inside my home above cleaned dishes, it was raining outside so a bee visitor in my kitchen is a welcome visitor to my macro hungry eyes.
To make the things easy, this time I, errr…., Put a sugar in my finger was able to get the pictures and the wild bee got a nice sugar dinner. All in one a good trade for both sides
Tabanidae portrait by Gustavo Mazzarollo on Flickr.
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This one was very early morning inside my home, was a little fuzzy and allowed some handheld portraits.
This one is a stack of two images with Canon MP-E 65mm macro photo @ 4x and about f/5 (effective aperture of F/25)
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Maria Serra Pallavicino by Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
PBS Break. This is just gorgeous!
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![“There are roughly three New Yorks.
There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and turbulence as natural and inevitable.
Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night.
Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.”
— E.B. White, Here is New York
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“There are roughly three New Yorks.
There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and turbulence as natural and inevitable.
Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night.
Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last—the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.”
— E.B. White, Here is New York
[photo via All Things Amazing, photographer unknown]
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Inspiring. As events unfolding all over the world show, governments and despots that try to silence or censor their people will not succeed in the long run. Sure, there are still many societies that are not free, but their day is coming.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqbjf0Xf731qbj1sio1_500.jpg)
