This is not the beauty you often find in this blog, but it certainly has its charms.

Portrait of an earwig (Forficula auricularia), an that got its name from tales of ear-crawling into a man’s brain.
It can strike a nice pose, don’t you think?
Pic info: MP-E65 (somewhere between 1x-2x) and a macro ring flash MR-14EX. It was handheld and a real challenge to keep up with the frentic movements of the insect. The ringflash is certainly a great aid when handholding. In the past I would have been holding one 580EX in one hand and the camera in the other, making it quite hard to keep a stable setup. On the downside, I do find the ringflash light often flat. It won’t be long until I get the 580EX in my left hand again and start experimenting with the C-group wireless capability of the MR-14EX.