I remember as a (slightly abnormal) kid collecting firecracker packs having a pack called ‘Mighty Mite’. At the time, it never really occurred to me what a ‘mite’ was – I just collected the pack.
It isn’t difficult to find mites whenever taking macro shots. They are everywhere and you really just have to turn over a leaf that is decaying on the ground to find one. Photographing one, though. Well that’s a different story.
Complicating getting a good photo of one of these little buggers are two things.
1) They are extremely small. The shot above was taken at 5x – and even then I cropped it.
2) They move rather quickly and do not sit still
About a week ago, though, after not finding much anything else to photograph that day, I decided to take my chances.
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Over the weekend, I decided to see what I could find outside. It was a bit cold, so nothing was obvious in the open so I turned to the standard process of turning over different logs and rocks to see what I could find.
On turning over a piece of wood, I was delighted to find a leopard slug. These slugs are native to Europe, but have become common in gardens on the West Coast of the United States. According to Wikipedia, they mostly eat rotting plant matter and fungi but another site mentions that they eat other slugs so I’m not sure.
The slug was actually too big to fit in the view finder with my MP-E 65 so I settled with taking some pictures of the texture of the slug – which I found rather interesting.
However, there was more than meets the eye with this slug, as I was about to find out when I turned it over.
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