Star Wars Beetle

This is a very small beetle I haven't yet identified, but the first time I saw it on the screen I thought that was wearing a helmet like the Imperial soldiers in Star Wars. -Lord Wader our army is ready to fight. Where's the next nuclear plant?

Playing with the Flash

This picture was taken in a sunny day.

-What??

-Yes, it was a sunny day but I was using a powerful Macro flash light. The light of the flash was so bright and so close to the insect that the background looks like if the picture was taken at night.

-ah!

To take this picture I had one of the flash bulbs close below the insect and the other one on my camera. Here this nice artificial backlight.

Insect may be a Mylabrissp

Caterpillar under both the sun and my flash

I've been practicing more with the flash, in this picture the flower was totally black. I played with the flash to get a lighting condition that pleased me.

My first butterfly

Here it comes my first butterfly. This beautiful lady is from Rubi.

The picture It's done with a 100mm macro lens together with a 'twin' flash. I really hate taking pictures with artificial light, but the results speak from themselves and I will need to keep on learning the technique of the flash. I hope master Fri-Koh can offer discounts to beginners.

The same image without flash has the backgroung with the same tone as the butterfly. An extra benefit of the flash is the increase of depth of field.

-Leptotes pirithous?? who knows!

Violet

I like this picture, but I can't say what kind of fly or wasp is standing on this violet.

OK, now I know it's from the family of flies, it's a baccha elongata, thanks to frikosal and his contacts.

Spidergreen on duty

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Spiders are fascinating, here it comes Spidergreen descending from his net.

Spidergreen was peacefully taking a sun bath on his nice penthouse on top of an attractive Dacy. Spidergreen was happy because it was sunny, no clouds were showing and a munion of insects were flying around. But our friend did not realize that the most hideous animal on this planet* had spotted him. TreeHugger had a water spray on his left hand and his camera on the right one.

How can be raining? shouted Spidergreen while descending from his net. 'Click', got you! thought TreeHugger.

* Homo Sapiens, the planet predator responsible of the extinction of 800 catalogued species since 1500

The yellow fly over the yellow flower

Can a photo be better than other? only for a single viewer at a single instant.

Today, for TreeHugger, this picture from frikosal is the best ever. It has nice separate colors yellow-white-green in excellent composition's geometry. The fly's body and eyes has perfect focus that starts blurring on its rear wing till daisy's rear petals. It's perfect. Then the subject of the image, the fly, its awesome, rich in detail. I love the hair on its body and abdomen, even look at the eyelid, looks like Sofia Loren!

I love when photos have both good layout and a rich content full of interesting details

Congratulations frikosal!!