I'm late to the party--But I enjoy how the horshoe crab is recognizable in the bottom two shots!

Hmmm....I thought by cutting and pasting the address, the photo would be displayed in the message directly. Is there another step I need to do to save y'all clicking on the link?

(added later) I broke the code! Things work so much better when you read the instructions.....

http://www.photomacrography1.net/images/ant-them-reedit387W3298.jpg I just discovered this site. Charles Chien's ant shot prompted me to dig out this one from last Summer. This is a Pogo harvester ant from a park near my home. I took the shot with a Canon 1Ds and the same MP-E-65 lens that Charles ...

It seems that depth of field is a nightmare. I never was brave enough to try medium format, but Robert Thompson wrote a book (Closeup on Insects, I believe) where he advocated using medium format for insect photography. Most of his pictures were at less than 1:1, as you'd expect. But some of them ar...

As a child, the two historical figures who fascinated me most were Leeuwenhoek and Galileo. So I grew up with an affection for overpriced optics! I have a couple of books on him, including (I think) the one you refer to. I agree that there is little documentation outside his letters. I've seen excer...