MACRO SHADOWS - for the Shadow Hunters SMASh Contest-Round 367

I'm rarely focused on shadows while chasing spiders and insects and exploring the tiny details in nature around me, but sometimes, a shadow confidently enters the scene and steals the show.

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In today's post, I'll show you a few tiny shadows I photographed in the early summer of 2024.
The one shown in the opening photograph is the entry for the contest, and ...

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... and it was cast by the pistil of a flower. The scientific name of the plant is Romulea bulbocodium. The following photograph ...

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... shows a fly seen through the leaf of one of the fig trees in my garden. The structure of the leaf looks great in the backlight.

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This is the small leaf of the yarrow (Achillea millefolium). The leaf and its shadow.

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Here, you can see the shadow of another leaf on the same plant.

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I caught quite a few Achillea millefolium shadows on that occasion. The one shown in the following photograph ...

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... is my favorite.

This spider and its shadow were resting on the long leaf of the reed. The name of the species is Nigma puella. It's a spider from the Dictynidae family.

The dark shadow is much easier to spot than the tiny green spider, well-camouflaged on the green surface.

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Here, you can see the ornate shadow of the fennel plant that grows among the reeds.

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This photograph shows a bit of the dry plant that has cast a shadow on the green foliage of a reed.

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This is a planthopper; can't tell you the name of the species, seen through the leaf of the reed.

AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS, HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.