This is my Macro head pic of the tiny Hoverfly ‘Eupeodes Corollae’. I don’t know about anyone else, but I can’t even remember, spell or even pronounce the fancy pansy latin names so I’ll just stick with the common name for this, ‘Migrant Hoverfly’ . Its a very common Hoverfly and you will usually see it almost anywhere, along road side verges, hedgerows, gardens, meadows etc. I followed this from plant to plant, I don’t know who was more exhausted, me or the fly , now I do my Macro photography in the evening’s or early mornings ( if I can get up ) when they are either knackered from a hard days hovering, or just woken up from the land of nod. I guess this was just a lucky shot tbh. Taken with Olympus OM-D EM1 Mark iii , 60mm Macro lens, F12 and Auto ISO .
Another fabulous image, the detail is amazing!
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Many thanks Wendy, I was quite pleasantly surprised myself how it turned out.
You've certainly got the detail and colours in the eye. Nice one ...
I think that was more down to luck than skill if I am honest, I thought I’d hashed it up until I got indoors and went through them, I took a burst of about 25 , and as I went through them, deleting as I went , this one was amongst them ( the rest were Rubbish ) but thats the thing about Macro, it has a fairly high deletion rate doesn’t it ? especially when your quite new to it .
Superb Macro.
Thank you Mr Kes.