First bugs of 2011

Lord Vetinari

A few bugs now appearing after the freeze.
The bluebottle was taken with the Tamron90 at 1:1 using just one head of the Opteka RL600 macro flash - does give a rather high contrast image. I got the Opteka for Christmas just to play with - remarkable value for £70 but am still working on the diffusion. It has twin heads but no ratio control - just L/R/or both heads firing but the heads do move independantly on one axis.


Brian V.


A jumping plant louse on the car- first bug I've seen on the car in ages- taken at 5:1 FF





Group of springtails on the water barrel lid - Vertagopus arboreus - these are slightly iridescent



Globular springtail on the water barrel lid



First fly of the year- a bluebottle

GOLDENORFE

good to see you finding them to shoot, dont think i saw a bark fly last year!

Lord Vetinari

GOLDENORFE wrote: »

good to see you finding them to shoot, dont think i saw a bark fly last year!

Thanks Phil - yes a few bugs other than springtails beginning to appear in the garden after the cold spell we had.
Brian V.

80weeks

Great shots as always! Nice to see what can be done with the lens I have (tamron 90)... I will have to attempt some bugs this year.

Lord Vetinari

80weeks wrote: »

Great shots as always! Nice to see what can be done with the lens I have (tamron 90)... I will have to attempt some bugs this year.

Thanks

Brian v.

sapphire73

Amazing captures! Not sure I've seen or noticed springtails before. Love that iridescence.

Lord Vetinari

sapphire73 wrote: »

Amazing captures! Not sure I've seen or noticed springtails before. Love that iridescence.

Thanks for the comments
Tend not to notice springtails because they are so small. You might have seen them as little pale flecks jumping about when you lift up a pot plant.
Brian V.

Paul Iddon

I hope the season starts soon up north! Had a spider in the house last week, nothing more..

Paul.

Debashis_A_ghosh

The springtail and the fly are my favs in this series.