Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel
by Abra

Comment by photomad_2007:
nice idea.

Event Horizon
by Abra

Comment by photomad_2007:
love the colors and lines formed by motion.

Event Horizon
by Abra

Comment by Sirashley:
Quite honestly, really cool shot. Love the effect and movement! 9

Carnivorous bug getting its vitamin Bee
by Abra

Comment by herfotoman:
I must say the wall looks quite red on my screen. The focus on the bugs are a bit soft, did you have the camera on a tripod? 1/40 sec may not be fast enough to get good handheld closeup shots. Me and my friend have started taking macro shots, and really, it is a difficult art to get the buggers nicely in focus, no matter what lens one uses. From what I've heard, that is the most critical aspect to get right. You should see us running around from bush to bush with a camera on it's tripod. Hilarious. I didn't buy a lens, bought the set of 3 Kenko tubes, they work brilliantly. I still have my arm and leg as well.

Carnivorous bug getting its vitamin Bee
by Abra

Comment by spiritualspatula:
I think the biggest issue here is that robber flies are an oft used subject and any shot of one that you enter is going to be compared to all the work of others, Roz being one of them. Dragonflies are the same way- That got a 5.77 in a FS. If you don't elevate them to a very high level, you'll score par at best.

Carnivorous bug getting its vitamin Bee
by Abra

Comment by tnun:
I think Bear has it right. People seem to prefer what looks like the missionary position.

Kept Out
by Abra

Comment by Bear_Music:
I'm surprised this didn't do a bit better, maybe 6.2-6.3ish... I agree with Tanguera re the framing of it, but the processing especially is first rate and the image is regardless very rewarding to look at and explore.

Carnivorous bug getting its vitamin Bee
by Abra

Comment by Bear_Music:
Something like this might have fared better. It could have been accomplished better from the full size image of course... I did this from a screen capture of your entry.



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Carnivorous bug getting its vitamin Bee
by Abra

Comment by Bear_Music:
The "bug" is a Robber Fly...

As for the shot itself, I bet it would have done a lot better if you had rotated it 90 degrees clockwise. and used a gradient to darken what would become the foreground wood. I will take a stab at it...

Event Horizon
by Abra

Comment by NayDiz:
Trippy, man!