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A common bluebottle sunning itself on a lump of wood in my garden. Beauty is where you find it, and you rarely have to look far.
This is a focus stack of 7 images.
Modified by CombineZP
when I first began shooting insects with a macro lens, I was surprised to see all the hairy details. Some bugs are so hairy it could almost be described as fur.
I must have posted 4 or 5 images of this same teeny tiny species of fly trying to get enough dof to cover it from end to end. His or hers right eye just barely goes out of focus. Closer and closer. No red eye reduction used. Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand
I have been told this is a bee mimicking hoverfly and I am in no position to argue that's the beauty of flickr always plenty of input especially when I have got it wrong
thanks everyone carry on as its the only way to learn
Non-stacked image of a paper wasp (Family: Vespidae) I knocked out in the freezer for 5 minutes. They revive easily and mosy on their way after I photograph them. :-)
On an Aeonium arboreum succulent. These flowers seem to attract a wide variety of bee's, wasps and hover-flies.