Help, my world is shrinking!

Lots to look at in my garden this morning, small is beautiful. Found these two tiny insects skating in the bromeliads, and then this wasp guarding her larvae. I'm addicted to macro.

How to fake a war

Get a tub of plastic soldiers. Set up a war zone with dirt from your vege patch and a few bits of leaves, lichen and sticks etc. Choose the unlucky man to get hit and stand him in front of the guy with the rifle. Add a few coloured sprinkles, stick them on to your soldiers with a bit of spit (hey these guys are at war, they can handle a bit of spit). Get down and low with the camera. Shoot at f16 to get some depth. Bit of tweaking in photoshop with hue/saturation to give it that old time feel. Then spend hours with the spatter filter making those sprinkles look like runny paint. Wacko, you have yourself a fake paint ball war. Throw away the sprinkles.