Fresh from acquiring a new camera, and a new lens, I thought I'd have a bash at some teeny weeny stuff.... I've no idea what any of the bugs are, but they're all on some sort of Willow tree. The first few were a case of stick the lens on, point, shoot and see what comes out in the wash
Trust me to start with bug porn!!
A shiny one
Who knew things that small had multicoloured legs?
To the naked eye, these just looked yellow....who knew?
A giant fly!
This looks like one BillysDad (I think, apologies if not) posted
It had started getting a bit murky, so I was about to head in when.... Don't you sometimes wish you had the other lens on?!
After the rubbish Hummingbird Hawkmoth, I decided to call it an evening, and do a bit of interwebbing settings/techniques, as I'd taken 173 pictures, and literally, that was all the usable one!!
The following day after work.... the Giant Fly again!
It's still black and yellow... but now there's a leaf vein for a bit of scale! (I should have put it in my kettle, for scale )
Shame about the leaf in the foreground, but who took the time to put gold leaf on the fly?
Don't jump, Wilbur
Wot you lookin' at?
Ohh... it's stripy under the wings!!
Green-Eyed Monster?
I can't wait to have a go at fly sized flies, not these little fellas!
All of a sudden, I heard a thrumming noise above me....it was only the Hummingbird Hawkmoth come back.... I practically ran in and got the big lens.... fingers crossed I can get something half decent...
A brief skirmish between a Red Admiral, and the Moth... resulted in the moth going...
And a fly landed on one of the upper buddleia flowers
But them HBHM was back... (with a bendy wing, that Trevor mentioned in another thread..a mirrorless vagary if I recall correctly)
He spent a lot of time with his bum toward me!
The trick is to get a picture, when they're NOT feeding
I hope you liked my first journey into Mirrorless Littleness. Lots of learning still to do, and the first thing is to learn to train a Hummingbird Hawkmoth, to be in SUNSHINE when I'm trying to take photos!!
Stay Safe All
Cin J
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Regards, Hazel
Great shots PB. I believe your 'black and yellow' is a Yellow Swarming Fly .. Here
I think it's great fun macroing :-)
Thanks, BD, but of course, I know it better as Thaumatomyia notata
And (for info) the adults grow to 3mm!!!
Well.
Your new camera is certainly doing you and itself proud.
I'll catch up on the camera detail in the Moving To Mirrorless thread, I see you've put some useful detail in there. However, the hummingbird hawk moth pics, are just stunning.
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
PimperneBloke said:Thanks all for the kind comments, I'm certainly looking forward to more trips into the land of the Teeny Weeny!!
And with all those extra pixels, you can now crop deeper in the photo.
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)