Thread: Insect images

Stunning image, Briar - love your artist's license.

I was out walking this afternoon, just up the lane that passes my cottage when I noticed this ladybird hiding under the little leaves (they must have a technical name that escapes me at the moment) at the base of what will become a Red Campion flower.


Panasonic G1 with 45mm, f/2.8 Leica DG Macro-Elmarit @ f/8, 1/320 sec, iso 200

This is an un-cropped image with minor adjustments to the raw file in Bibble Pro 5.

Barrie

PS, had to look it up (not really a plant man), they're sepals

Just how does a bright insect like this Red Admiral butterfly conceal itself, why just by closing its wings.



Can you spot it?




You can hardly miss it now

Both shots with a Panasonic G1 fitted with 45mm, f/2.8 Leica DG Macro-Elmarit, 1st one at f/5.6, the 2nd at f/8.

Barrie

Wow, I had to look twice to see it in the first pic!

Thanks for sharing.

A couple of shots from todays walk showing a hoverfly Syrphus ribesii, sorry no common English name although it's a common hoverfly feeding on the flowers of Alexanders.

Both shots taken with a Panasonic G1 fitted with 45mm, f/2.8 Leica DG Macro-Elmarit, both at f/8.



You might be able to see that the insect is using its front legs to clean its eyes




Again these are un-cropped shots

Barrie

Really excellent series Barrie.

Yes, I'm just coming to these now, Barrie. I enjoy seeing the world around us, through your eyes. There is so much beauty and intrigue in the world of insects.

Not up to the same standard as the post of others but that leaves me (a lot of) room for improvement :) The beercan lens in action again seems to be stuck on my camera of late.

Nice work all. Here are a few more of the bees, hard at work:

I took this thinking it was of pollen spores:


It did not turn out very well and I thought I would go back out and take another. When I saw movment I realized they were little tiny bugs: