Butterfly Close Up

When you see a butterfly flutter by they always look so nice, but have you ever looked at them closely.

Here are a couple of macro shots from this morning of a butterfly, not the usual angle I normally get and they have so much going on and actually look quite gruesome.

Photos taken with Nikon D70 + Nikkor 28-100 with x10 adapter

Hope you liked the pics.

Mike.

Macro in the garden

We had a strange bright light in the sky today, I believe it is called the sun.

So to make the most of it I grabbed my camera and headed for the garden, we have had a number of different butterfly on our buddleia (possibly the best £3 I have ever spent), but today it was Hover Fly and a few different species.

To keep things simple as they have the strangest of names here are the pics of Hover Fly I got.

I also go this Forest Bug which sat nicely on my window before flying off.

Finally another Hover Fly, thought I would save this until last, I just loved the way this came out apart from the head isn't in focus, it looks great.

All photos taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 28-100mm + 10x macro adapter

Well hope you liked the pics.

Until next time.

Mike.

Busy Bee

Two posts in one day, but I couldn't resist.

I was stood in the conservatory looking out for Blackcaps, (I saw the male about 6:45am and the female about 2:30pm) when I noticed this Bee, it wasn't too steady on its feet so it made for good practice.

Hope you like them..

All photos taken 28/04/2008.

1st Macro Shots

I thought I would try out my macro adaptors today for the 1st time, I got them for Christmas, but haven't had the chance.

Please let me know what you think of my shots and give any advice, it would be most welcome.

The fly in the 2nd shot was only about 3-4 mm long.

Hopefully I will be able to start posting more insect shots once I get the hang of using it properly.

All photos taken 27/04/2008.