On #1, is there a way you can bring up the shadows to show the dog's eyes?
On #4 and 5, it looks like some of the natural green in the images is bleeding into other areas - bleeding may be a totally incorrect term - maybe it's just a natural reflection of one color's light scattering around, don't really know.
I agree about the dog. Unfortunately the sun was behind him, so I might have to do some heavy editing, but as you pointed out, it's worth a shot.
As for 4/5, I think it may be that the shots were taken under a 'canopy' on a sunny day-- almost all the ambient light in both of the snaps had a green tint to my eye, as well as on the camera. Perhaps I'll play with the 'tint' in LR and see if I can't get less bleeding.
Your 'bug' is actually a type of wasp. She uses her long ovipositor (that stinger thing on the back) to lay eggs in insect larvae buried in decaying wood and places like that. The wasp eggs hatch out and eat the larvae for breakfast.
Amazing diversity we have on this little blue marble...
Mike.
You know, I did this series while walking around with a friend of mine. After getting the wasp pictures he said, how are we going to find out what the heck that thing is? I actually told him that when I post some of the results on LL, there is a guy who usually takes a nibble and IDing 99% of the unknown stuff that passes through there. Thanks wolfnowl for your curious knowledge of...well...all things curious.
Elby
