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Our final day shoot and we told ourselves not to be too slack, as we had been hiding at the balcony for almost the whole of day 3! Off we went to the nearby waterfalls, and then made a short walk to one of the trails.

Behind the scenes shots from Melvyn’s Sony TX5, Nicky’s Galaxy SII, David’s LX5.

1. Some morning monkey business outside the cabin


2. This pretty one decided to stop by too


3. The “cat face” spiny back orb weaver was still around in the morning, so I took a couple more shots


4. Interestingly, the patterns on the abdomen were also gyrating in a very slow pace!


5. The firefly larva was still nearby, and I took some test shots too


6. Close up. Had to pan to chase it, as it walked non stop


7. Walk walk walk walk walk


8. Opened the aperture to get a nicer background, but compensating with a thinner DOF


9. Still moving non stop


10. Final shot before it found a crevice to hide into


11. A very small longhorn beetle


12. Record shot from above


13. Found this scorpion-tailed spider (Arachnura sp.) way above our heads


14. Side view to show the tail


15. Found more of the “cat face” orb weaver, very bright sun in the background


16. Here’s what it looked like without flash


17. The place was also infested with ticks.. some rather big ones!


18. Some had different patterns on the back


19. On the same plant, we found this crab spider guarding her egg sac


20. Fondling her egg sac every once in a while


21. Taking a defensive stance


22. And then back to staring at her kids to be


23. We were chasing a tiny little frog, but it played dead when we tried to scoop it up, and to our surprise, it held on to the tip of this dead leaf! Quite a funny pose… 😛


24. From the side, it looked like any other dirty litter frog


25. The view from above gave rather different colours! As if it was coated with petroleum…


26. Peering up at the sky, before it decided to stop playing dead and jumped off


27. Goofing around at the bridge


28. As we entered the trail, Lance found a little fly with it’s wings opened.. and immediately told me that it could be a Scorpionfly (Mecoptera).


29. True enough, it is a Scorpionfly! And a male one, lucky us!


30. We were very careful in approaching the Scorpionfly, just in case we scared it off. Luckily, it was not super skittish and we could take a number of shots before it really disappeared.


31. Ben found this pair of ants, not sure what they were doing though??


32. We found a mass of weird looking fungi


33. Reminded me of speakers in those dolby surround sequences


34. Lots of them, but didn’t know what angle to shoot from


35. Dammit.. they found a huge leech on my back!


36. Lots of leeches coming towards us…!


37. We also found this male Portia sp. waiting on another spider’s web in ambush. The host spider hides below.


38. Backlit shot highlights the palps


39. From this angle, we can see a part of the hidden host spider below


40. We had initially missed this planthopper on the 2nd day near our cabin, but are lucky enough to find it again!


41. View of the back


42. Very interesting and cute – black with white spots


43. Stopped by at the waterfall for some photo-taking


44. Ben, always the center of attraction


45. As above… 😛


46. Since he was into portraits, we made him the model of the day


47. Bored monkeys


48. Our photographer took so long that we had to show him the finger


49. More silly shots


50. Apparently David did not know what went on behind him… lol


51. Been shooting macro day and night… tired… NOT!


52. Back at the balcony, and found this assassin bug flying around


53. Ok maybe not an assassin.. rostrum doesn’t look much like one of an assassin bug


54. Dung beetle, can’t find any dung for it to roll around. lol


55. Final moments with the dung beetle before it flew off to the ceiling


56. Melvyn found this super weird assassin bug on our curtain.. like a thread/stick??


57. The slightly bulging eyes stood out from the thin thread-like body


58. Lower view reveals the long rostrum


59. Another experiment with back lighting


60. A visiting moth on our curtain


61. This moth was perched at our balcony table, and as I was shooting it, noticed that Melvyn’s coffee cup was in the background. Might as well try letting it be the background! lol


62. Another composition


63. Frontal shot


64. Side view


65. Suddenly, the antenna stands up


66. Final shot before moving on to other subjects visiting our balcony


67. A very weird looking fly on our curtain. Ichneumon wasp?


68. Top view


69. A cicada stops by as well. Very bright green, possibly fresh from molt


70. Peekaboo!


71. Some light painting had to be done at night. Here’s to winning more 4D!! HUAT AH!


72. Our rendition of MACRO


73. And.. just for laughs 🙂

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