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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 1d

Miscellaneous #macroPhotography #bloomScrolling from #VolunteerPark Conservatory, #Seattle. (Mostly orchids, I think?)

September 2025.

Vivid orange, red and yellow orchid flower, upper petals splayed outwards, against a green background.

Ethereal, ghost-like flower with long, thin yellow-white petals dangling downwards.

Pink, white, yellow and purple-black orchid flowers - looking like the complex heads of some alien creatures.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 2d

What percentage Moose content does it need to officially become 'Moose Magazine (featuring Private Eye)'?

(And from there - all hail the Moose Event Horizon!)

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 3d

(Dismal photos of derelict industrial sites are one of my happy places. Along with taking macro photos of bugs. So many bugs! Ahem.)

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 3d

These are great - and gave me a sudden flashback to the work of two of my favourite photographers, Bernd and Hilla Becher, famous for their abstract typologies of industrial buildings...

Nice retrospective of their work excavated here:

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Bernd & Hilla Becher

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 6d

I've an online pal, Wayne, who digs up BEAUTIFUL Victorian ink bottles from the rubbish dumps of yore.
Wayne:'Got some new gear, want to look?.'
Me:'Does the Pope poo in the woods?'
Some of the gear👇
There'll be more tiny posy-making mental health kits in my Etsy shop soon, dispatched in time for🌲

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 4d

A man walks into a bar with a rhipidistian belonging to the subclass Dipnoi on his head and the barman says "Why the lungfish?"

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 5d

(One day computers might figure out where Prof Roberts's head is when auto-cropping photos to landscape...)

Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 6d

Sci-fi flashback: David Bowman entering the monolith near the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

(Although Kubrick didn't think to include such a gleeful grin in the freeze-frames...)

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 9d

I had that T-shirt as well! I think it wore out...

(I have numerous official Moose shirts as well.)

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 9d

Completely unconnectedly, an interesting article about visualising radio signals from pulsars via stacked plots!

www.scientificamerican.com/blog/sa-visu...

Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover [Video]

Sure, I was familiar with the graphic—and I’m not alone. Drop this image (right) on someone’s desk and chances are they’ll reflexively blurt, “Joy Division.” The band’s 1979 Unknown Pleasures album co...

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 14d

Excellent infrastructure - and reminded me of some apropos Moose...

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15d

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

Cartoon. Two people standing on a stage looking at a third person who is jumping down through a trap door. In the foreground we see the backs of the audience’s heads. One standing people observes “It’s just a stage he’s going through”

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 25d

Nice!

(I must confess that one of my own highlights was ... seeing the rather windswept latrines at Housesteads. Ahem.)

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 25d

My grandparents lived in the area, and I was lucky enough to visit loads of Roman sites (and other historic places) as a child - seeing the whole of Hadrian's Wall in one continuous trip must have been incredible!

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · 26d

(Not a hypocaust, but it's given me flashbacks of, as a child, exploring the under-floor ventilation for the granaries at Corbridge Roman fort! I do like ancient, enclosed spaces...)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 26d

Three different instars of Nezara viridula nymphs spotted in a west London garden, early this week - and it seems the adults look quite different again!

https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Pentatomidae/nezara_viridula.html

#insectsaturday #insects #shieldbugs #macroPhotography

A cluster of small, round, brown-black bugs on a large green flower bud on a shrub - with small white and orange dots, and one waving long, segmented black antennae around.

Two much larger bugs on another green flower bud - vaguely resembling ladybirds in their general, near-hemispherical shape - black with white and yellow spots in lines along their segmented abdomens.

Flattened, roughly circular green shieldbug nymph on a leaf - outlined by pink, with more white spots in lines along a dark, segmented abdomen.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · Sep 22

Waiter-entomologist's probably gone to get the dSLR, macro lens and extension tubes!

(I was thinking of this joke last night...)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · Sep 21

Visiting family. A fly landed in my beer... On closer inspection after being rescued, a tiny ichneumon wasp!

(Why do wasps, suddenly appear - every time, I am near, etc. I'd just been telling them the Good News about parasitoid wasps...)

#insects #wasps #macroPhotography

$Slender, narrow-waisted black wasp with iridescent green-black eyes, orange legs and wings mostly folded, seen side-on, perching on a human fingertip - revealing features like legs to be a fraction of the width of a fingerprint ridge.$ Same wasp doing a near-handstand - cleaning itself off after landing in a glass of beer. It was released into the outdoors soon afterwards. (Yes, I did have a dSLR with macro lens and extension tubes to hand - which I unpacked from my bag with a tiny, damp wasp perched on a finger...)

Same wasp doing a near-handstand - cleaning itself off after landing in a glass of beer. It was released into the outdoors soon afterwards. (Yes, I did have a dSLR with macro lens and extension tubes to hand - which I unpacked from my bag with a tiny, damp wasp perched on a finger...)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · Sep 22

Sneaking into #monochromemonday with another #infrared shot - overlooking the #grandcanyon, #arizona. July 2013.

(Strictly speaking, it's *not* quite monochrome - there's some complex interplay with longer / shorter wavelength near-infrared and the bayer mask on the sensor. Ahem.)

Alien, monochromatic landscape of pale, heavily eroded scarps and valleys, revealing intense horizontal, sedimentary layers - tufted with small, pale dots of vegetation. Pale outcrop of rocks in the foreground, receding to a vast, open canyon in semi-darkness in the background.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · Sep 22

Heh - I stuck a click-through content note on the Pixelfed original, so as not to startle any arachnophobes - and the fediverse bridge upgraded it to the much more dubious-sounding 'Graphic Media'. Blimey.

(Username? Worst possible one I could think of, when all better ones seemed taken!)

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · Sep 22

I think mainly drying herself off after being (briefly) immersed in beer! Looked really bedraggled at first.

(Perked up a lot over the course of a few minutes - then got released into the garden...)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · Sep 21

Visiting family. A fly landed in my beer... On closer inspection after being rescued, a tiny ichneumon wasp!

(Why do wasps, suddenly appear - every time, I am near, etc. I'd just been telling them the Good News about parasitoid wasps...)

#insects #wasps #macroPhotography

$Slender, narrow-waisted black wasp with iridescent green-black eyes, orange legs and wings mostly folded, seen side-on, perching on a human fingertip - revealing features like legs to be a fraction of the width of a fingerprint ridge.$ Same wasp doing a near-handstand - cleaning itself off after landing in a glass of beer. It was released into the outdoors soon afterwards. (Yes, I did have a dSLR with macro lens and extension tubes to hand - which I unpacked from my bag with a tiny, damp wasp perched on a finger...)

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · Sep 20

Do bugs count as 'little things'?

(They've been a welcome distraction lately...)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · Sep 20

It seemed end-of-season for many bugs - then yesterday was warm and sunny. Cue ... bugs!

Dragonfly: Aeshna cyanea?
Cranefly: Tipula sp.?
Fly: Sargus bipunctatus?
Ladybird: Coccinella septempunctata

#Derbyshire #insectsaturday #insects #Dragonflies #craneflies #flies #ladybirds #macroPhotography

Close-up view of a dragonfly, from above and off to one side. The four, many-faceted transparent wings glitter in the early autumn sunshine - and are attached via knobbly structures to the thorax - which, like the long abdomen, is covered in yellow, blue and black patterns. The bulbous eyes reveal complex shapes from various optical effects from the multitude of closely-packed lenses.

Large cranefly on a green bamboo leaf - its narrow, greyish, muscular-looking body with a small head, long narrow wings and long, slender legs - giving it its common name of 'daddy long-legs'. (It's not the spider or a harvestman...)

Slender fly on a reddening autumn leaf in the sun - thorax an iridescent, metallic green, folded wings many-faceted and glittering.

Near-hemispherical ladybird - glossy red wing cases with black spots - on a dried, dying autumn leaf.

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Coprolite9000 @coprolite9000.bsky.social · Sep 20

No idea what they're up to!

Hornets here - I never remember seeing so many in the past - have been amazingly docile. I took lots of photos of 'em drinking water from the pond...

(But yeah, they're definitely not to be messed with.)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · Aug 11

Another hornet! Vespa crabro, From this morning.

(Last night I wondered what all the scratches on the lily-pads were from - seems it's a regular landing pad for hornets, with them coming back every few minutes! Great fun to watch...)

#Derbyshire #insects #hornets #macroPhotography #MacroMonday

Large, sturdy hornet - yellow and red-brown - on the edge of a green lily-pad, delicately sipping water from the pond. Partially underneath the green lily-pad is an older, yellowed one - covered in tiny scratches and gouges. A regular landing-pad for hornets?

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · Sep 20

It seemed end-of-season for many bugs - then yesterday was warm and sunny. Cue ... bugs!

Dragonfly: Aeshna cyanea?
Cranefly: Tipula sp.?
Fly: Sargus bipunctatus?
Ladybird: Coccinella septempunctata

#Derbyshire #insectsaturday #insects #Dragonflies #craneflies #flies #ladybirds #macroPhotography

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · Sep 20

Tiny #toadstools in the grass... #Derbyshire, yesterday.

#fungi #macroPhotography #sporespondence #mushtodon

$Small brown-to-beige toadstool, upper surface concave with a frilly edge - surrounded by giant blades of intensely green grass and some spiky moss, scattered with refracting globes of rainwater.$ Another, mostly orange-brown toadstool - this one with a convex head. Again surrounded by green grass.

Another, mostly orange-brown toadstool - this one with a convex head. Again surrounded by green grass.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · Sep 18

Big wasp / little wasp from today - Vespa crabro (male, based on number of segments in the antennae?) and an unidentifiable tiny one seen ambling across the wall next to my computer, illuminated by a desk lamp. Just a few millimetres long...

#Derbyshire #insects #hornets #wasps #macroPhotography

Large orange, yellow and brown stripy hornet on a leaf, looking towards the camera looking ferocious, although the long curly antennae suggests this might be a completely harmless male...

Very small wasp, compact body dark with a slight sparkle to it, with faded orange-brown legs and bent antennae - on a white-painted interior wall, casting a shadow.

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