fly macro

Relaxing in the afternoon sun.

Stable Fly - Stomoxys calcitrans

Stiletto fly

Single shot

Hirundo rustica

Amanita muscaria

I was sitting by my pond this morning when this dragon fly came by to see me.

I've taken this photo some time ago with a macro add on with kit lens. I edited it again in my current editing style for practice but I liked it so I am uploading it again.

Lackford Lakes Nature Reserve

Bee-Like Tachinid Fly - (Hystricia abrupta)

Colorado Springs, CO

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Sawtell carpark

All of us at one time or another,

have felt like flying away.

If only we had wings?

But no matter were you go

there you are, so they say.

And It maybe that we have something better,

our imagination and creativity.

So set them free!

fly

a pair of geese do a fly by over some deer. They didn't seem to mind though.

Kestrel fly by

green bottle fly, I think

"You're back then?" said the fly "We flies thought we were going to get some peace and quiet now that you were spending your time with that spotted monstrosity". I was taken aback, spotted monstrosity, surely they couldn't be talking about the beautiful and talented Arthur. "Do you mean Arthur", I said "the ladybird that I've been taking pictures of". "Yeah - that's him, evil monster, Arthur the assassinator is his real name, you know", the fly started rubbing his hands together with glee. "That thing eats 5000 of our little cousins, the aphids, every year of its life". I had never thought of it like that. "Aphids are pests though" I retorted "they damage plants!". "You mean they eat to try and survive", answered the fly, "anyway - you're a human, you can talk about who is the real pest on this planet, it was perfect before you lot came along". The fly then flew off, looking for some waste product to dispose of, or some dead and rotting animal to return back to the food chain.

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A blue bottle fly

In the metallic green flavour.

Thought it was a bee.

Playing with a new 100 mm macro. I have a lot to learn. Its definitely not as easy as some of my friends make it look.

I was out in the backyard this afternoon looking for something minimal to photograph when, by happenstance, two Turkey Vultures passed overhead on set wings. Luckily, I was able to capture one in silhouette while avoiding intervening tree branches or clouds to clutter things.

Taken for the "Crazy Tuesday" theme of 4/11/2023: MINIMALISM.

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".......... use your imagination and your dreams will come true...."

Sunset in Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield, England.

4 handheld image stack in Zerene.

Does any know the correct name for this fly please?

green-eyed fly

Here is a Macro Fly,after the Dump was done.

Well some say life will beat you down

Break your heart, steal your crown

So I started out for God knows where

But I guess

Ill know when I get there

Im learning to fly around the clouds

But what goes up must come down-tom petty

A severed fly head that I found just sitting on a leaf at Lake Waterford Park in Maryland. I've found some bizarre stuff in the years that I've been doing macro photography and this will rank near the top. I'm guessing that the fly was the victim of some type of wasp.

Millmont, Pa

Fliege / Blaue Schmeißfliege / Calliphora vicina / Calliphoridae / Diptera

Fotografía macro de una mosca tomada en El Retiro, Antioquia, Colombia

© Wilmer Quiceno

Small fly on yellow flower.

I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

Handheld stack with Canon MP-E and flash Meike MK320 with handmade diffuser. View LARGE