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It's a Small World

You can used extension tubes with a normal lens for macro photography, but if you already have a macro lens and use it with a couple of extension tubes then you get some larger than life shots. The largest of these cups is probably less than 3 millimetres diameter and the shot is not cropped. Focus stacking becomes essential as the depth of field of each layer is a fraction of a millimetre.

You and your fellow springtails are peacefully feeding on organic debris next to a stream when suddenly a dark shape rapidly approaches from beneath a leaf. It's a predatory, semi-aquatic rove beetle of the genus Stenus whose appearance causes the springtails to release their furculas, leaping in random directions to escape. The defeated rove beetle raises its abdomen in frustration and resumes the hunt.
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