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Entomology
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Found a colony of these european hornets living inside of a stone wall in Spain. I held my camera by the entrance and took shots as soon as I saw one come out. Ended up with maybe about ~50 blurry images and this nice one.
The photo was cropped and post-processed using Rawtherapee. I increased the local contrast and added some tone mapping and vignetting to make the hornet pop more against the background.
The original JPEG output by the camera is this:
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I saw this while in a hike today. Wasp tried to take this beetle home but it wasn't having it.
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