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After 12 hours of work today, you'd think I'd come home and, oh, maybe rest, relax, nap... No, I parked the car in the garage, grabbed by camera and macro lens and proceeded to walk, crawl, lay all over my landscape for the next 2 hours capturing bugs, flowers, and beauty-- finishing with over 1,000 handheld captures :))
Since I've just started with these bugs and little creatures, I can't identify them very well, really. I believe this is a Hover Fly...
Shot close to the North side fence at Wattisham, this 3 regiment crew were in the hover for some time, slowly landing on the grass behind the mocked up revetment.
This shot gives some idea of the wing motion of a hovering, broad-tail hummingbird. The next shot in my PhotoStream show an alternative wing position of the same bird. Notice that even 1/4000-sec is not enough to totally freeze the wing motion.
Nikon D500, Nikon 500mm afs vr.
Lodmore, Weymouth Dorset.
This series of three shots are of the same bird, I have photographed black tailed godwits many times before
but i have never seen them hovering like a kestrel!!
This particular individual would lift off the water fly up to a height of twenty feet and hover then drop back down and repeat the process again.
I can only think that this is a territorial or mating display.
I've seen a lot of amazing hummingbird photos around Flickr from some extremely talented photographers. (For example, check out Shepherd's photos!) I was getting frustrated with stalking hummingbirds in the wild, so I decided to try photographing them near my mom's hummingbird feeder instead. Unfortunately her feeder was in the shade, so the photos came out a little more grainy that I would have liked, but they're a step in the right direction.
Macro shot of Hover flys eye using Sony A7M2 and Oshiro 60mm macro lens for canon adapted to sony.
Handheld, manual focus.
The lens is about £150 and adapter £15 so really pleased with the results.
A kestrel is capable of locating its prey at remarkable distances - it can see and catch a beetle 50 m from its perch. Kestrels need to eat 4-8 voles a day, depending on the time of the year and the amount of energy-consuming hover-hunting they do. They have a habit of catching several voles in succession and cacheing some for later.
Kestrel~Falco tinnunculus
A friend and I had a most enjoyable day down at Frank Lake, south east of Calgary, on Monday. We had fun trying to catch these Forster's Terns for an in-flight shot. I managed to get several, but none are very sharp (i.e. don't look at it in large size, LOL). When they hover, I love the feather patterns in the wings and tail. Very elegant birds.
7" Hover Board from the Back to the Future movies :)
pattern here
liljabs.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/hover-board.pdf
I would give it 4/5 difficulty because of a bunch of tiny pieces in one section.
After the rain this morning, I thought I would go bug hunting....the sun was finally out & so was this Hover fly : )
Exposure: 1/3200 sec
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: -3/10 EV