A hoverfly performs

Lord Vetinari

Found this syrphus sp. hover on a fir tree the other morning - looked a bit cold so i coaxed it onto my finger for a warm up in exchange for a modelling session.
Brian v.



Crop from above shot



What's this ?

dlplumer

Unreal Brian

How do you get a hoverfly or any insect, to sit on your finger for you to shoot, pray tell?

Lord Vetinari

dlplumer wrote: »

Unreal Brian

How do you get a hoverfly or any insect, to sit on your finger for you to shoot, pray tell?

Thanks

Dan - if they are a bit cold they will happily walk onto your hand to warm up. I purposely encouraged this one onto my finger, But for example today I was trying to shoot a miner bee on a dandelion flower and held the flower underneath to stabilise it - the bee immediately walked out of the flower- down the underside and sat on my hand to warm up

Brian v.

rhermans

I was already questionning myself if you where starting a new series where you force all those critters to walk on your hand.

Great series

Jaynus

OMG, how awesome are these shots?! I have some serious learning to do and it looks like I finally came to the right place!

GOLDENORFE

great series Brian, looks same species as my recent shot from monday

phil

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments all

Brian V.