More Flys Macros

Sitting on my table in the sun this fly landed and started warming itself up on the ceramic surface. Out again with the camera and macro lens. At the other end of the garden I came across this bluebottle in the gravel. There my friendly neighbourhood Robin kept an interested eye on me from the fence.

black fly

fly face

compound eye

fly foot

bluebottle

bluebottle on takeoff

bluebottle on soil

in a little closer, the detail is glorious

this little chap kept a curious eye on me
2014-08-20

Why All The Flies Nick?

I was sorting through my catalogue of desktop backgrounds and found these three fly photos that I took back in 2005. Now with my new D7100 I thought it about time to try my hand again at some fly macros principally in search of the perfect compound eye shot. I've not made it yet, but I'm getting reasonably pleased with the preliminary results. More to come I'm sure, but to temper the files (which are otherwise getting a little too annoying in the house at the moment) there is a picture of a bee in flight (the focus is not particularly sharp I'll admit).

a rather cute blue bottle. I love the colours of the rock (2005)

sepia filter applied to this, but the eye is magnificent (2005)

the focus of this was well caught (2005)

this bee was visiting the morning courgette flowers (recent)

Hover Flies

This morning I was just about to head off to work when I spotted the hover flies performing their rather cute aerial display. So it was back out with the macro lens.





2014-08-04