Macro lighting diffusion is a pathway that many a macro photographer will tell is fraught with confusion, consternation, and frustration. This can be confounded even more especially when photographing subjects with greater levels of reflective qualities, beetles, and certain flying insects.
Blue Banded Bees are an exquisitely colored species of Bee that calls Okinawa home. By day one may see a flash of Cyan as the diminutive pollinator travel from flower to flower in their search for nectar.
Again, knowing the behavioral aspects of your subjects, and in that aspect, I focus more on their typical modes of self-defense.
Yomitan, as a district of Okinawa, is distant enough from the madding crowds of Naha and the tourist enclave of Chatan, but rural enough to give a sense of country living.
There are times when so enraged I become at the abject destruction of all things natural that all I can do is scream my profound disgust. So cover your ears kids, because I have now been driven over the edge!
There are no guarantees that my son, Joshua, will be able to strap on SCUBA tanks and plop into the crystal clear waters of tropical Micronesian reef channels,