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I cannt think why Ive not posted this one before,Its been on file long enough.
The lads thought it would be a laugh to bring me back a surprise from one of our landscape jobs. they handed me a sandwich box making angry buzzing sounds, peek under one corner of the lid reveiled one upset queen hornet, apparently they found her under ground trying to hibernate where they wanted to make a pond.Half an hour in the fridge quietened her down a bit enough to take a couple of pictures before placing her into a dense hedgerow to find some where else to settle down for winter. I am glad they didnt hurt her as they are becoming very uncommon in the UK about 3 times the size of our other native wasp at about 1 inch / 25cm long and while not as agressive as the ones found in Japan (Ive only seen them on TV)she can stilll pack a punch with her sting.
Like the wasp hornets hunt insects and caterpillars so I hope she got though the winter OK, though Ive havent seen a hornet since.
Adjustments
open in PS7 and check levels and set black and white point.
saturation +16 lightness -5
brightness -2 Contrast +7
USM 131% X 2.4px radius X threshold 1
Brightness again -41 the flash had over brightened it at such a close range.
Crop 50% ish to 28.22 X 21 @ 720 dpi and save to print file.
Resize to 72 dpi which brings the picture down to 800px X 595px just the right size to post to TE. save picture using save to web at as close to 200K (193.7K)