Odds and sods part 8

Lord Vetinari

Some recent smallish bug shots from the garden.

Brian V


Small dolichopid fly



Menacing fruit fly



Colourful bark fly



Another bark fly



Spider with chironomid midge



Dance fly in the grass

GOLDENORFE

wonderfull shots Brian, love the last 2.
what is colour in background on dance fly?
phil

ritewinger

These are all a pleasure to view, and makes me REAL happy these things don't grow as big as cows!

stevehapp

nice ones brian.
i love #1.

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for looking and commenting

Phil - the BG in the last shot is a fuchsia flower - I was doing some dewdrop refractions using it when I spotted the dance fly.

Brian V.

Skippy

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Some recent smallish bug shots from the garden.

Brian V


Small dolichopid fly
Menacing fruit fly
Colourful bark fly
Another bark fly
Spider with chironomid midge
Dance fly in the grass

Might have to rename that last shot as The Disco Dance Fly
Man that's a colourful background in that shot.

I like the head shape of the dolichopid fly.
The first Bark Fly looks interesting, are the two the same kind,
one younger than the other? or different species??

Great collection Brain .... Skippy

tlee

Skippy wrote:

Might have to rename that last shot as The Disco Dance Fly
Man that's a colourful background in that shot.

Great collection Brain .... Skippy

Disco Dance Fly--Skippy, you crack me up....

Wonderful series, Brian. I always look forward to your posts.

Lord Vetinari

Thanks T and Skippy for the comments

Skippy- like the "disco dance fly" . No the bark flies are different species. I'd guess I get about 10 different species of these in the garden but think there are around 30 species in the UK.

Brian V.

canon400d

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks T and Skippy for the comments

Skippy- like the "disco dance fly" . No the bark flies are different species. I'd guess I get about 10 different species of these in the garden but think there are around 30 species in the UK.

Brian V.

Once again a fantastic series Brian and always a pleasure to look at your shots. By the way I have finally succeeded and started to shoot manual mode so things are really looking up. It has been a long damned haul but I am slowly getting there.
Regards
Bob

Lord Vetinari

canon400d wrote:

Once again a fantastic series Brian and always a pleasure to look at your shots. By the way I have finally succeeded and started to shoot manual mode so things are really looking up. It has been a long damned haul but I am slowly getting there.
Regards
Bob

Thanks Bob - manual mode/flash is really the only way with the MPE-65.

Brian V.

l2oBiN

Great impact in the first. Love the colours in the last. The last three shots suffer from tiny DOF, perhaps stepping back a bit would have helped?

Admirable, as per usual.

Lord Vetinari

l2oBiN wrote:

Great impact in the first. Love the colours in the last. The last three shots suffer from tiny DOF, perhaps stepping back a bit would have helped?

Admirable, as per usual.

Thanks for the comments

Most of these shots were fairly high magnification and will always have limited DOF

Brian V.