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Since I initially sighted her eight days ago, beginning her project under a yucca leaf in the garden...the paper wasp queen has been busy adding cells to her nest and a few days ago laid her first eggs.
15 mm body length
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Praying Mantis on my Indian blanket flower. They love this particular clump of flowers and I have seen several hanging around.
Hier genießt ein Kurzschwänziger Bläuling die letzten Sonnenstrahlen des Tages bevor es zur Nachtruhe übergeht ❤❤❤
Our native granny's cloak moth, within family Erebidae.
A beautiful and large moth with wingspan of around 70 mm. The eye spots may deter predators.
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Not a typo. My choice.
My daughter-in-law took these two separate photos with her cell phone in her garden. I thought they were good enough to share.
Because there was some strong backlight (burnout) going on I chose the easy route of nudging the background to an "artsy" white. Both photos required cropping to enlarge them. I was amazed at how well they excepted the enlargement with relatively minimal pixilation.
A dormant European Wool Carder Bee snoozing in my Lavender.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (above 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC, second curtain sync). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I'm holding on to the Lavender stem with my left hand, and resting the lens on that same hand to keep the scene steady.
Yes, it's this thing with macro and environment that I wrote about in my post before... 😊 the Diamondback moth that peeked out like a white little ghost in the dark vegetation. Here is the same Diamondback moth at the same time but from a different angle and it has also moved a bit. In the previous one, it was backlit against a deep shadow that the Diamondback moth was exposed to, here it is backlit photographed from inside the deep shadow(!) out against the sunlit field. The same Diamondback moth but with different "personalities". In real life, its color is light gray-white but in these different photographed environments it becomes the representative of extremes, light and dark. All in all, still a habitat-inspired macro photography .... or?!
A monarch pauses on a flower just long enough to catch the light. Captured in the glow of a late summer afternoon, this moment still feels golden.
This Blue Tiger Butterfly pauses gracefully on vibrant milkweed blossoms, sipping nectar and reminding us of nature's delicate balance.
Grypocoris stysi
A conspicuous bug found widely throughout the UK. Pretty awesome to see these little guys with a macro lens.
OM-1 II
M.Zuiko Digital ED 90mm F3.5 Macro
AK Diffuser
Godox 860III-O