Lunch on the Edge_TNY_3036S3
A fortunate catch for me - and for the fly! This is a stripe-legged robber fly (Dioctria hyalipennis) which was so occupied with devouring some sort of ichneumon wasp on the edge of a leaf on the bowl of beauty peonies (Paeonia lactiflora) that it didn't mind me getting several shots of it.
I had the MP-E65mm on the camera and set it to 1.5:1 magnification and managed three shots without it moving so I could stack them using Zerene Stacker in a pretty much effortless stack with minimal retouching.
Lunch on the Edge_TNY_3036S3
A fortunate catch for me - and for the fly! This is a stripe-legged robber fly (Dioctria hyalipennis) which was so occupied with devouring some sort of ichneumon wasp on the edge of a leaf on the bowl of beauty peonies (Paeonia lactiflora) that it didn't mind me getting several shots of it.
I had the MP-E65mm on the camera and set it to 1.5:1 magnification and managed three shots without it moving so I could stack them using Zerene Stacker in a pretty much effortless stack with minimal retouching.