Patience is required and technology is our friend. Other than that, it's just curiosity. My setup does what it does and in that regard taking pictures is easy though I'm restless with its limitations. Finding such small stuff to photograph is difficult, invariably leaning on happenstance while exploring something that I can see.

Thanks for sharing your expertise and helping to identify my photos. I am regularly amazed and astonished, and feel privileged to see what few people see. As far as this mite surely looking like Nanorchestes, I can only say that to me it looked like a very small mite dressed up to go to the circus. What a strange and wonderful world.