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Excellent in flight shoot.

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Just felt in a macro mood today. Still too much wind to make things easy...

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Manual focus attempt here...

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i had a blast with bumblebees today here are some photos:


bumblebee on lavender 2 by tbensic, on Flickr



wasp on lavender 1 by tbensic, on Flickr



bumblebee in fiesta by tbensic, on Flickr


more on flickr or DA

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I was not able to find an Ant thread so I'll put it here. Since a naked kit lens doesn’t go that far I had to play with composition (witch is hard because of the hugely shallow DoF). Why am I saying this? Well you know best...

DSC_0310 by Ivan Manko, on Flickr

Some of mine:


A fly with kaleidoscope eyes by strictfunctor, on Flickr


Black-banded hover fly by strictfunctor, on Flickr


Large Orange Assassin Bug by strictfunctor, on Flickr

Very late answer after more than a year but that's a nice one. I don't know the English name but in German it's a "Moschusbockkäfer" (what a cruel word ). We have got some of those in our garden or to be more precise in our tree. But they are living in... "ill" trees and yes, we had to cut our tree as it might have fallen onto the street in a storm. The other half of the tree had already fallen onto our house...
The tree is growing again and few weeks ago I saw another one of those beauties.
Here is a picture I shot back in 2005 using my Sanyo Xacti J2


And some other small ones I shot this year:







[img]http://simon.deobald.org/bilder/maikäfer03.jpg[/img]

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I don't know what insect this is but it keeped hissing at me?

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Can't be 100% sure from the pic but I think that's some kind of swan and belongs in the duck thread

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Sorry wrong one got this one trying my best with these close up I think it's been croped in the uploanding to photobucket.

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popo, do you use a tripod for those flying insects

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Nope, all hand held. Those hoverflies or whatever they are sometimes hover in a spot for a few seconds. If you're fast enough, you can get them. You can stack the odds a bit by using a smaller aperture to increase DoF.

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