Macro: the FLY

Kevin

Hi all
Was playing around with this fella (I know, I know, don't play with your food) ...

Here he is - colorful lil blighter eh?
Hope the pics load, didn't know if I should use img tags or not?

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d58/theronfamily/the%20UBER%20FLY/Bottle-Fly-011.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d58/theronfamily/the%20UBER%20FLY/Bottle-Fly-022.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d58/theronfamily/the%20UBER%20FLY/Bottle-Fly-031.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d58/theronfamily/the%20UBER%20FLY/Bottle-Fly-008.jpg

Skippy

Kevin wrote:

Hi all
Was playing around with this fella (I know, I know, don't play with your food) ...

Here he is - colorful lil blighter eh?
Hope the pics load, didn't know if I should use img tags or not?

He is indeed a very colourful fly
I see you also used a reversed lens as well as Kenko tubes
Good series ..... gotta love those compound eyes .... Skippy

BigAl

Nice set there Kevin! Great detail.

You may want to check out Waxy's thread for linking images:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=8401

drdane

Cool shots, Kevin! Good sharpness for such high mag, and great color.
I think I like the 2nd one best, compositionally. (is that a word?)

Handsome devil - looks like he could use a shave though! If flies had money, I'll bet you could make a killing doing portraits! Speaking of killing, was this character alive or dead? He seems to have had a great deal of patience! I'm guessing it had croaked, because of the junk on its eyes - I think they usually keep their peepers clean.

Awais Yaqub

superb loved them

riz_sat

beautiful shots!

Kevin

cheers skippy!

Kevin

thanks for that tip bigal.
rgds

Kevin

cheers drdane, he was croaked, aye.
the peepers are always the first to get dirty in these case seems

Kevin

thanks awaihs, riz.