Garden, Groningen, TheNetherlands

Large view!

The only trouble with doing macro is you get bit a lot.

And they love me.

After the rain

The Asilidae or Robber fly, also called assassin flies, are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. They are notoriously aggressive predators who feed mainly or exclusively on other insects ranging from other flies to beetles, butterflies. moths, various bees, ants, dragon and damselflies, ichneumon wasps, grasshoppers, and some spiders. As a rule they wait in ambush and catch their prey in flight.

I am indebted to leif_85 for identifying this insect for me.

Colorful algae thrive in a man made geyser in northern Nevada. Climate change is also threatening this natural wonder. Then this landscape photography will no longer be a celebration of natural beauty but part of a documentary of destruction.

It was a really cold and wet spring day when I found this Bee fly, so I think due to the cold it was very sluggish and allowed me to carry it over to a nearby flower. This gave a more colorful compo : )

My absolute favourite toadstool

... Bet you that you wish it was summer again and I was buzzing and annoying you again and all dark and cold, and snowy here in winter ;)

1.5 times macro using extension tube with a macro lens. No cropping done. As shot.

Not as focused on all the drops as I would have liked but this is the first time ive seen a fly with this many drops, like jewels!

Many thanks for your visits, kind comments and faves, very much appreciated.

Learning To Fly

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)

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Aeroplane

Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute (1995)

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Paper Aeroplane

Angus & Julia Stone - Memories Of An Old Friend (2011)

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Learn To Fly

Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left to Lose (1999)

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The two drug dealers who appear at the beginning of this video clip of Foo Fighters, trying to camouflage drugs on the plane, are Jack Black and Kyle Gass, two musicians who make up the rock group Tenacious D. This song will never be the best song of the rock history, even if the lyrics say so. Nor will they be remembered as one of the best rock bands. But something if they have both: they are two very funny guys. And his music videos and concerts, more. A good group. And "Tribute" a fun video clip.

Tribute - Tenacious D / Tenacious D (2001)

Tribute - Tenacious D (live)

Kielbasa - Tenacious D (live)

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American Beauty (final scene). Director: Sam Mendes

A film to think and reflect on. A highly recommended film.

Y entonces fluye a través de mi como la lluvia. Y no siento otra cosa que gratitud por cada instante de mi estúpida e insignicante vida.

No tienen ni idea de lo que le hablo, seguro. Pero no se preocupen... algún día la tendrán.

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American Beauty (final scene bag). Director: Sam Mendes - B.S.O Anerica Beauty (1999): Thomas Newman

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"Life fits in a 'click', in the blink of an eye, in any flake of oatmeal. It is about distinguishing what is worth from what is not"

...Squeeze every second of your life. Learn to fly, even if only as a simple plastic bag blown by the wind blowing in the streets. Otherwise, you will have flown through life... without having understood your own life.

PS: There is one thing I don't like about this photo... the use of pesticides. I prefer organic, ecological and sustainable crops. Pesticides kill insects. If the insects die, the birds have no food. And every day that passes, there are fewer birds... simply because there are no insects. The only species that is a plague on Earth... is humans.

PS: And as explained in ecology and ecosystems or the same words of the best ecologist, oceanographer and limnologist, Ramón Margalef... no plague can survive. Sooner or later... all the plagues, they finish and they are extinguished.

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World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Long Version)

David Sylvian / Ryuichi Sakamoto - World Citizen (2003)

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¿Que pasó aquí? La mariposa ha perdido sus alas. el aire es demasiado denso para respirar y hay algo en el agua potable.

Sale el sol y estás solo. Tu sentido de propósito se deshace. El tráfico vuelve al laberinto de la 101 y las noticias del cielo, se ven mejor por hoy, en todos los sentidos, pero no para ti, ciudadano del mundo. No es seguro.

Todos los pájaros amarillos están durmiendo porque el aire no es apto para respirar. No es seguro.

Happy summer.

In Stoney wood

Decreased the aperture some so that I could more of the eyes in focus on this cloudy rainy day ... so the ISO went up and the shutter speed came down some.

Hand held macro.

Interesting just what this large fly with the bee body colors really is.

Captured with the CPL filter on the macro lens.

..and reach the sky!

Taken at Riverwood Conservancy [Mississauga, Ontario]

Thanks to Lenabem Anna for texture

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Original photo can be seen here:

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Have a beautiful day everyone!💝 HSS!

Thank you for your visits, kind comments, awards and faves. Always greatly appreciated.

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Allensbach at the Gnadensee with a view to Reichenau Island.

I think my favorite jetty this year...;)

My Soundtrack: Safari by Steps Ahead 1984

Happy weekend!

Yarin

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little fly in the meadow

Piraeus, Greece.

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Mouche appartenant à la famille Rhinophoridae et de genre Stevenia, mais sans certitude.

Fly belonging to the family Rhinophoridae and of genus Stevenia, but without certainty.

Another image from a rare foray out these past few weeks. This was taken in Bolehill Wood below Millstone Edge in Derbyshire - part of the National Trust's Longshaw Estate. The combination of time of year and plenty of recent rain had contributed to a relative abundance of Fly Agarics at different stages in their development. Unfortunately this one had lost most of its white 'spots' in the recemt downpours.