New Found - a scary looking wasp

a big wasp ~2-2.5inch with the long and scary tail... it look like Ichneumon but need confirmation



even found it summer time, it move slow ...manage to capture few angle of this scary looking wasp ...






and for full view .. no chance to change len .. so use stitch method again




more wasp

Landscape - a Cold Sunrise

While I have my US trip April 2010, I managed to capture few beautiful and cold sunrise which discuss before @ Coldest landscape outing I ever have 

beside the good experience to feel the cold sunrise (while I am talking about cold mean it was ~<10C). I did capture few 2010 Landscape favorite .... and one of it publish and won a challenge in a local Photography magazine challenge (July 2010 Challenge HDR, Digital Camera Malaysia, DCM)




and it publish

and yesterday one of my gang request me to re-work the picture without HDR ... so I just did a simple exposure mapping from 2 pictures ... did some contrast, saturation



*** could be different by few minutes of both picture but same angle, time and setup used.


More @
US 2010 series
2010 liewwk Landscape
liewwk Sunrise series

Other - something on my body 2

last 2 weeks ago, I found a damselfly with mites on it's body ... which I feel real sad and pain for the damselfly .. and the mites is big and can easily view by human eye

yesterday , I found a tiny jumping spider (~>5mm long)... trying to figure why it is orange color (and thought it is poisonous due to the color)... but I am wrong after the 1st picture snap








what do you feel while you see this ??? and think without a MACRO len, we may not able to see this as it is too small to be observe ..... so let's MACRO :D



the face mite...


more liewwk Spider series click HERE
more liewwk 2010 US trip series click HERE

New Found - Scorpion Fly

Common Name: Scorpionfly
Scientific Name: Panorpa nuptialis Gerst
Order: Mecoptera 

Description: These unusual insects have four similar long, narrow, membranous yellow wings with dark brown marking banded patterns. The head bears long, thread-like antennae and the mouthparts are at the end of an elongated "snout." The body is up to 1 inch long. Males have abdomens with an elongated end that resembles that of a scorpion.

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ok , I found it again and surprise she is not found mountain (which previously I found them >500m from sea level ...and this is just a garden outside my hotel ... and saw them few times (all female ...) and only able to get close once.

this is one of my favorite insect which look awesome and I always look for it and so far I found it Malaysia (highland), Indonesia (highland), Taiwan (highland) & US (garden outside ...) Ohhhh .. why I call it New Found.. :D as this is an insect I feel I would like to share more to you and this is my 1st female scorpion fly.

this fly is very shy and not easy to get close , for those 1st time see it , prefer to shoot from far get a ID shot before trying to get close ... and it is harmless to human even the tail to scary ....

previously saw

Malaysia (a real record shot as not way to get close)


Indonesia


- this look little different may be it from >2500m from sea level

more 2010 US pictures click here
more fly collection click here

Other - something on my body

after years shooting macro, I had saw many mites on insect body and first time I saw a "apple" or "ball" like mites on damselfly (ohh , I have no ID on the damselfly and it should belong to my new found)

again, while I first saw it I thought it carry the egg (I could be right) and eventually think this should be mites on the insect body .. and ohhh the mites is cute :D




and for before this, few shots still in my mind (which I feel pain from the picture) ...

a long-horned beetle


a beetle .. a terrible one


a not too bad one


even a wasp have it


look close to it



sometime , i feel pain while seeing it but again this is nature survive rule ... it happen .......

Landscape - Coldest landscape outing I ever have

for weeks. and here is still cold for me while waiting for the spring coming .. (range from 38F - 62F or 3C - 17C)

for the very first few days , while I still having my jet lag and I woke up 3-4 am to go out and find sunrise spot with google earth assistant ... I got 2 spots locate not far from my hotel and managed to capture some pictures (but not really able to process those pictures as my notebook screen is not calibrate correctly.. so have to wait till I back to MALAYSIA)

but I do shoot RAW + JPEG and let's share 2 coldest sunrise shot (for me) to you all

1. a sunrise that really cold ... it is so tough to press the shutter .... but great experience for me


2. the next day ... where the weather was better (not so cold) but not really shoot a lot as I park my car road side and got warning form Police where I shouldn't park my car at the road side ... (hmmmm and had looking for near by parking after this but can't find one so this will be my last chance here :( )

*** a reflection ... picture non crop, non rotate, non edit .. so any one can guess how I get this ?