By the way, your bug is some species of "green stink bug" -- probably of either the genus Arvelius or Thyanta (thanks to the website "bugguide.net" -- see here and here).
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web." Pablo Picasso
A captivating bug macro - stinkbug family for certain - when seen up close like this ( and you got the details perfectly ) they are so interesting. People think bugs are just bugs - but they are little works of art each one in their own way. This is a keeper!
Kat
thankyou guys, i will be thanking you all personally but in response to the question about tripod ! NO i dont use a tripod for any of my macro shots :)
This is such an amazing macro...the details are so great. I absolutely love the black specs on this thing's back. The bright green looks great against the rest of the scene too and the DOF is spot on! Very very well done and right into the favs!!
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You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes