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Male Sphaerophoria scripta
Size: 9 mm
Early morning stack of a male hoverfly resting on a dry flower head.
Stacked from 42 natural light exposures in Zerene Stacker. Exposure settings: 1s, f/5.6, ISO64.
Here I used a Laowa 25 mm f/2.8 mounted on an Olympus EM-1mkII body. Magnification: 3X so the horisontal of view is 5.6 mm.
Hover trucks like this were a common sight in space and sea ports across the galaxy. Their blacks skirts and trail of lubricants & coolants gave then the nickname of "Slugs".
Only about 8mm long. I chased it with manual focus Nikkor 105mm micro lens until I had it in focus :) At F11 and small extension tube.
With a price tag of about $84 million, the V-22 Osprey is the world's first production tilt-rotor aircraft. The MV-22 Osprey, flown by the Marine Corps, has the ability to take off vertically like a helicopter and then convert into airplane mode and fly up to 300 mph like a traditional turboprop plane. In combat, the Osprey is capable of inserting up to 24 soldiers into remote areas without a runway or air-traffic-control towers. Insider visited Marine Corps Air Station New River in North Carolina to see what it takes to fly and operate these aircraft.
A few more pics of the Hover-Speeder from yesterday.
And loving those new wheel hubs. They're just perfect for spaceship engines :D
Forster's Terns
Elkhorn Slough
Monterey CA
Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade
Activists for birds and wildlife
May 8th, 2011
These little guys had tons of energy as they were zipping back & forth and hovering for only a second. It was almost impossible to get them in focus. (I took almost a hundred pictures to get one good pic.)
ODC: Energy
Work in progress on my new project. It’s a kind of sci-fi hover tank / dropship / higgins boat with a hatch at the front that opens to disgorge infantry directly into battle.
It’s going to be the centre of a diorama, so the technic you can see descending from the ramp will be rooted into the ground making it look like its hovering.
Anyone got any comments or input?