A few closeups from today

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Nightingale's garden continues to attract insects and I have been shooting a few frames of them from time to time.

A skipper on a butterfly bush


A swallowtail on a butterfly bush

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A yellow beetle on a red gallardia
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A black swallowtail


And a strongly backlit green heron for Harry
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DavidTO

Nice!

I really dig the contrasting colors in the first one.

But they're all real nice.

Cinda

These are nice -- particularly the backlit heron.

Dick on Aruba

Nice series, well done. I Like the 1st the most because of the colors.

Thanks for sharing.

Dick.

gluwater

Excellent Jim! Love the skipper. But where are Nightingales pictures of her garden. Yes Nightingale, I'm talking to you. Share with the class .

Dalantech

Awesome butterflies!

Tess32

That's one good day! Excellent shots. I like the third best, gorgeous colours.

dbaker1221

terriffic shots. Thanks.

raptorcaptor

Very nice set. Particularly liked the first shot!

saurora

These are great, love the skip! Are the herons in your garden, too????

Harryb

Outstanding set PF. What lens were you using?

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You folks are too nice!! Not a complaint to be seen. Hmmm!!

Harry, the macros were the 180 Tamron, which I have rec'd here on dgrin frequentlly. It is slow to focus ( as are all the long macros I've used ) but nice and sharp and contrasty.

The heron was shot with that infamous, lesser quality Tamron SP200-500 Di (IF) lens. It is not L glass, but it is really light and easy to carry around, and although I have been told this lens suffers from CA, I'll be darned if I can find it in my images shot with it.

A tripod is really necessary though - it is too long ( optically speaking) to shoot handheld, like I did for these herons.:):

Awais Yaqub

I loved all of them

pathfinder

Thanks Awais.

You have posted some very interesting macros also.

I don't have any shots of blood suckers yet, but I'll keep looking:uhoh

Or NOT!!

Awais Yaqub

pathfinder wrote:

Thanks Awais.

You have posted some very interesting macros also.

I don't have any shots of blood suckers yet, but I'll keep looking:uhoh

Or NOT!!

keep looking

pathfinder

:uhoh :uhoh :uhoh

:giggle :giggle

SteveF

Nice series - really like the lower left green heron. I've seen a few of those in central Minnesota but never been able to get close enough.

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That is the first green heron I have seen in the wild here in Indiana.

I found it in a pond behind a local middle school. I will try and get back there and do a better job of capturing it again this week if time permits.

Here's my attempt at a damselfly...