MosquitoByte

I felt its bite, at first, but after having injected me its anti-coagulant, I couldn’t feel it no more

I was about to test my new improvised close-up lenses shooting some ants when I felt a sharp tiny bite behind my right leg. It was an awkward position to video this tiny black & white striped mosquitoe but I thought that was my only chance to shoot close-up my most hated tiny enemies on this planet! Just recently, the grandma of my son’s girlfriend suffered from mild “denge” but who fortunately was immediately brought to the hospital for a quick recovery. ~~~>:) glenn

Life’s Insectscapes & Bob Dylan

by Glenn A. Bautista

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Click on this link to view the video of these super-tiny creatures . . only through my close-up lens can they be seen and observed properly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1nIxr4YUgc

Precious things come in small packages like this 1/8″ inch cross between a skipper and the stealth bomber which amazing detail and design may be slightly seen thru my home-made macro-lens. An Oz UV Visual Artist Edd Aragon after seeing this skipper commented,

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“ awesome wing design of the fly, like a pair of black
rising sun jap flags! only in macro. thx glenn”

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Together with the 1/16″ of an inch red fly (?) and extremely tiny buds and shoots in the wild, a morning video-shoot after the 5 AM tennis, made my day. A tiny skipper, stealth bomber & “Bob Dylan’s “Modern Times”, how can we go wrong?

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Other insect photos: http://www.yessy.com/glennbautista/insects.html

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Aten-minute video excerpt from a one-hour documentation of a drama of sacrifice exemplified by two ants making their frail bodies as bridges for the rest of the other ants going about their chores for the day. Handheld, I couldn’t keep up videographing with the patience and determination of these two ants who after performing their roles were brought up by a sympathizer ant via the tiny twig, perhaps to rest, to again perform the same task for the next days to come. I caught this particular scene at the start of this video after the first ant performed the sacrificial task for 30 minutes . . a touching experience, I must admit. Do test your patience too by finishing watching this incredible feat of two ants hanging on to a twig despite the wind, their frail bodies and minimal strength. This was first in their maker, so it is also manifested in them, the created . . less found in humans nowadays.

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BTW, like ants, we can do something together to prepare us for the future,

click on this link: click to join: http://www.uvme.biz/EVO193546GB

also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_DbP7tg0g (to convince you)

Close-up Photography

Although I am not that good in stills & video photography, if one day I decide to stop sketching, painting, playing the guitar or piano, close-up photography would be the next thing I would want to do. My intention then, having started to write my e-blog, is to share with you the few things I have done so far, having spent some time doing just this one thing that keeps me happy, this macro-world of beauty, surprise and mystery. May I then invite you now to view a close-up video I did on Philippines ants . . here’s the description I wrote at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29CeYntA8ZA

“A ten-minute video excerpt from a one-hour documentation of a drama of sacrifice exemplified by two ants making their frail bodies as bridges for the rest of the other ants going about their chores for the day. Handheld, I couldn’t keep up videographing with the patience and determination of these two ants who after performing their roles were brought up by a sympathizer ant via the tiny twig, perhaps to rest, to again perform the same task for the next days to come. I caught this particular scene at the start of this video after the first ant performed the sacrificial task for 30 minutes . . a touching experience, I must admit which reminded me a bit of what Christ did for men. Do test your patience too by finishing watching this incredible feat of two ants hanging on to a twig despite the wind, their frail bodies and minimal strength. This was first in their maker, so it is also manifested in them, the created . . less found in humans nowadays.“

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My Oz/UV-artist net friend, Edd Aragon wished once that he sees our Philippine bugs – “salagubang & salaguinto”. I realized then that the past months that I had been shooting macros of tiny insects, I had not really seen these two bugs we have grown accustomed to seeing since we were in knee-pants. Tonight, my wife Lorna just placed over my pc keyboard this much hunted “salagubang” that fell from a ficus tree while she was studying for her Colorado State board exam for PT this March. David my son suggested “Into Dust” as background music, by Mazzy Star.

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