A Few Close-Ups of a Wasp’s Nest
by Jeffrey Friedl Mon, January 20th, 2014 3:39pm JST (10 years, 3 months ago)
Wasp Nursery -- River House -- Streetsboro, Ohio, United States -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 400 — image data
Wasp Nursery

As about half guessed correctly, last week's A Textured, Layered “What am I?” Quiz is a “paper” wall from a wasp's nest.

Knocking it Down my brother Alan knocking down the dormant volleyball-sized nest -- River House -- Streetsboro, Ohio, United States -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — 1/200 sec, f/3.5, ISO 100 — image data
Knocking it Down
my brother Alan knocking down the dormant volleyball-sized nest

This was prior to the “arctic vortex” descending on Ohio, so it was prior to the pretty frost patterns, but it was still plenty chilly.

Ready for a Picture this is the piece seen in the quiz photo -- River House -- Streetsboro, Ohio, United States -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — image data
Ready for a Picture
this is the piece seen in the quiz photo
Lots of Nice Detail -- River House -- Streetsboro, Ohio, United States -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 180 — image data
Lots of Nice Detail
click through to the larger version to see the various fibers
Detail: Sun-n-Shadow Edition difficult to snap while the thing was blowing in the wind -- River House -- Streetsboro, Ohio, United States -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 900 — image data
Detail: Sun-n-Shadow Edition
difficult to snap while the thing was blowing in the wind

The “paper” is from the wall surrounding the whole thing. Inside were the combs...

 No    Vacancy -- River House -- Streetsboro, Ohio, United States -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/4, ISO 160 — image data
 No   Vacancy
Multi-Layered -- River House -- Streetsboro, Ohio, United States -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/11, ISO 5000 — image data
Multi-Layered
River House -- Streetsboro, Ohio, United States -- Copyright 2013 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 720 — image data

Not too exciting, photography wise, but for me at least a little interesting.


Related posts:
January11th,2014More Frost Patterns from Arctic Ohio
January12th,2014A Textured, Layered “What am I?” Quiz
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