Follow the Leader
by roz

Comment by spencelg:
Great action. Beautiful horses.

Orange Caterpillar Parasitoid Wasp (Netelia producta)
by roz

Comment by Barroness:
Wow you found an orange bug and it is perfect for this challenge.
Congrats

Orange Caterpillar Parasitoid Wasp (Netelia producta)
by roz

Comment by spencelg:
In my top three for this challenge.

Follow the Leader
by roz

Comment by Neat:
WOW, is what I thought when I first viewed this! It's amazing!
Love the motion captured and the landscape.

Top pick.

global warming
by roz

Comment by Neat:
WOW!! Look at you, this is totally different to anything I've seen you shoot before. I stumbled upon this when I was looking at other pics in this fs, just in case you're wondering what on earth I'm commenting on this for lol.

And look how many ppl entered, ha! 503, what a drag that must've been to vote on, who on earth would've time to do that, esp if they had a slow internet.

And oh, the 29 faves! Imagine if you got that now!

Follow the Leader
by roz

Comment by MaryO:
Beautiful animals.

Long Legged Fly with raindrops
by roz

Comment by roz:

Originally posted by Barroness: Beautiful in color and I am always perplexed in how you are able to get such beautiful bokeh. Bugs usually stay close to a patch of leaves making it hard to photograph them with such beautiful backgrounds and surroundings. Wonderful image, congrats on this and all of you're amazing and beautiful works of art. Unusual to see photography so well done in so many different types of work from portraiture to insects. I hope you print your images and sell them, they are so beautiful.

thankyou Debbi and everyone for your lovely comments .. xx

re the shallow depth of field .. lots of the insects i shoot are quite small .. this long legged fly is about the size of a mosquito .. and i'm quite close .. so the background gets very out of focus ..
this particular photo was focus stacked .. i took photo of the body and the eyes and the droplets .. three photos which i manually combined in photoshop ..

Debbi .. you have the canon 100mm macro so you could take similar photos with that lens .. thats the lens i used before i went mirrorless .. i think the quality of the canon 100mm macro is a lot better than what i shoot with now .. ie. the olympus with the 60mm macro .. (equates to 120mm on the canon) .. but the smaller size and weight of the mirrorless suits me better ..

once again .. thankyou so much everyone .. i really appreciate the feedback .. converting Dalina to thinking insects are beautiful was awesome .. xx

Message edited by author 2022-12-10 15:42:54.

Long Legged Fly with raindrops
by roz

Comment by Barroness:
Beautiful in color and I am always perplexed in how you are able to get such beautiful bokeh. Bugs usually stay close to a patch of leaves making it hard to photograph them with such beautiful backgrounds and surroundings.
Wonderful image, congrats on this and all of you're amazing and beautiful works of art. Unusual to see photography so well done in so many different types of work from portraiture to insects. I hope you print your images and sell them, they are so beautiful.

Long Legged Fly with raindrops
by roz

Comment by Dalina:
I never thought that the world of insects could be so beautiful. But your pictures convinced me otherwise

September
by roz

Comment by Dalina:
Beautiful gentle colors and lightning! Congratulation on your ribbon!