from Ecuador: www.flickr.com/andreaskay/albums

Visiting a butterfly bush in my front yard. Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland.

comma butterfly

Canon PowerShoot S2 IS

Super Macro mode

Vivid colour

6mm f/4 1/640 ISO 50 Crop Auto Conrast

Morning available light after lite monsoon rain.

Taken in my garden I think the butterfly is looking for a drink in between the stones as have seen this before, with other butterflies.

Panasonic FZ47 + Raynox dcr 250

Pu'er, Yunnan, China

see comments for additional image......

Bernwood Forest

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

Male darter dragonfly on the neighbour's decking. There were two of these around ofteb fighting for dominance of the pond. They obviously survived the recent rainstorms. Natural light shots. Focus stacked using zerene stacker

Red admiral butterfly resting. Strong natural light

Lake Powell //

Dragonflies are some of the fastest insects in the world.

Mayfly nymph rescued it from debris from cleaning my pond filters and photographed it on a plate with a little water before returning it to the main pond

Cricket

Olympus Zuiko 70-300 f4.5-5.6 ED

500px

Bee on a marigold.

Colorful dragonfly

Away from the landscapes and portraits, i try to indulge in macro scene using a newly acquired sigma 70-300mm...

This poor thing looks like it went threw a storm. I managed to take this picture with its wings spread despite the strong winds.

A little insect resting. It's very very small

Taken with Hoya +4 Close-up filter with the Nikkor AF-S 55-200mm f/4-f/5.6 with SB-600 Speedlight attached.

Found this cold and hungry drone wasp yesterday morning so i gave it a honey drop to eat whilst I photographed it.

C. auratus. My girlfriend saw this large beetle running across the ground. Took a while before we convinced it to pose for a photo :)

Saw at a park of Taiwan

Furry soldier beetle on grass blade

lunch?

This wasp was found resting on pine leaves (seedlings of Araucaria angustifolia) just at the sunset.

for when your programs feel a little 'buggy'