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Translucent baby worm


Translucent baby worm
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Copyright: Felipe Mateo and Cristina (extramundi) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2047 W: 351 N: 4191] (12692)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-01-14
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Exposure: f/8, 1/25 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-02-16 14:28
Viewed: 1397
Points: 30
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Baby earthworm

This is the baby of the nice earthworm Greg posted HERE.

This one has about 1,5 Cm. long (some more when it streched to move around) and I shot hand held with the objective resting in the same wood the worm is taken. The distance to the lens was about 3 Cm. Although I made quite a lot of photos, only this and another one were on focus. Either it was moving out of DOF, or blured due to the long exposures.
It is a pity I have not taken one with a reference object to show the little size of this one.

Although Greg has already posted plenty of info in his shot, with the transparencie of this one we can see its digestive system. The worms body consists of one big long tube of intestine, that moves the worms primary food, decaying plant matter along, taking nutrients out along the 100 or so segments that make up the worms body. The only real feature in the intestine is close to the head, where the worm has a gizzard, a sac full of very small pieces of sand, that help mash and grind the plant matter down so it can be easily digested. After that, it is just one segment of intestine after another until the worm's anus.

Hope you like!

F8 - 1/25 - Aperture priority.
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Excellent macro shot Felipe and quite different from the norm. The digestive system is very well seen here...very nice and good work.

Simplesmente incrível.
Macro tão perfeita que você conseguiu retratar a transparência da minhoca.
Parabéns

And thus new soil rich in plant foods is made . Thank you for posting this most excelent shot , I especially love the way we see the gut and contents in a wavey line though its body.

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  • PDP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2964 W: 366 N: 3848] (11755)
  • [2005-02-16 17:36]

Good shot Felipe, super details enabling us to view the insides of the worm. Nice work.

Great capture Felipe! What makes this one fly is the level of detail combined with just the right amount of light to reveal this slimy suckers inards! ;-)) Wonderful job!

Great shot. Perfrect exposure to show the innards. Excellent detail, and great notes.

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  • Nico Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 209 W: 1 N: 332] (1313)
  • [2005-02-17 1:15]

Well, I suppose a worm is as much part of nature. The see-thru variety is quite interesting.

Excellent shot Felipe. Even the intestine detail is perfect. Very good work.

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2828 W: 75 N: 8009] (26813)
  • [2005-02-17 3:42]

Hi Felipe!
Excellent, surgical shot ;-) Great light shinning through the body of this little worm. In Polish schools there was experiment with earthworms - cutting off few pieces and then observing how they regenarate. Cruel and stupid I think.
Joanna says that earthworms are disguisting ;-)
Pts tomorrow!

Very precise photo! Great shot,although the subject is really disgusting :-)))

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  • Luc Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2058 W: 315 N: 4404] (14713)
  • [2005-02-17 5:20]

A great post, Felipe. I believe that it is the camera which moved slightly but I am not sure.
You know that everything moves in the universe. A heap of thoughts and images moves in my head by looking at your tiny worm. The thoughts wriggle in my head as your worm. I am a big fish which you caught with your worm. ;-)
Thanks for this picture and the very interesting and digestible note.

Great Macro, very nice and impresive transparency. Focus semms to be a wee-bit soft.
Well done.
TFS

very nice macro!of the worm and tree :D
good details and just the good lightning.dof and focus are good too.well done!

Hi Felipe, something off topic for us. This is a simple but effective capture. You have masterred the use of light and the translucency shows off nicely. Well done.

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  • Callie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1252 W: 106 N: 2659] (7493)
  • [2005-02-20 14:27]

Hi Felipe,
On the thumbnail, it looks like one of your mant strange fungi, groing across the trunk.
Nice insides here, Bro. Joanna thinks you and I love nightmares! We have some monster earthworms in the Eastern Cape of more than a metre, if i rember correctly. Gerhard is more the creepy fundi, not I. Anyway, veey nice picture, but I would have rotated it a little to get more of a diagonal.

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