Ethereal
by roz

Comment by Art Roflmao:
Whoz! AMAZING image, roz. Congrats!

Ethereal
by roz

Comment by P-A-U-L:
HOLY COW!!!! You have excelled yourself with this one into a league of your own. This is bloody brilliant!

WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW!

I gave you a 4 btw ;)

Ethereal
by roz

Comment by grahamgator:
Beautiful Roz and my highest score. He/she looks so ethereal and light rays are magical. Congrats!

Ethereal
by roz

Comment by Barroness:
Congratulations
A perfect image in every way

Ethereal
by roz

Comment by GinaRothfels:
Congratulations Roz. What a wonderful image, and such a huge gap between first and second

Ethereal
by roz

Comment by IreneM:
It's top quality indeed. Brilliant image, Roz. So glad this stunning image won (and the score..! Fabulous). Many congrats (Hugs)

Ethereal
by roz

Comment by Paul:
This is top quality.

P4103490+91-edit-1200
by roz

Comment by roz:

Originally posted by MaryO: Interesting that he's not using his back legs. Not enough room? I'm used to bugs hanging on with everything they've got. I think you're right about the standard edit versions not being as good. Very cool how you've combined them, though. I've never tried that ... maybe I'll get a chance this summer when all the bugs come out.

flies do that a lot .. I feel its a grooming thing .. they rub their front or back legs together .. :)

edit after googling..
When you see flies sitting on the windowsill rubbing their legs together, they are cleaning themselves. They have to keep these sense organs clean so they can fly with precision to find food and mates and avoid predators

Message edited by author 2021-04-22 05:10:56.

P4103490+91-edit-1200
by roz

Comment by MaryO:
Interesting that he's not using his back legs. Not enough room? I'm used to bugs hanging on with everything they've got.

I think you're right about the standard edit versions not being as good. Very cool how you've combined them, though. I've never tried that ... maybe I'll get a chance this summer when all the bugs come out.

P4103490+91-edit-1200
by roz

Comment by P-A-U-L:
Superb detail throughout! I love the idea of a fly for burst of colour as burst of colour sounds quite joyful and people often think of flies and dirty and grimey so a nice bright and colourful fly photo would be a very welcome addition.

I don't tend to do focus stacking as the software fails to do a good job and my attempts to do it manually are pretty awful so I tend to try for a single exposure - though I have got lucky a few times and managed to combine a few frames in a stack. With the narrow depth of field of macro, I would like to get better at this skill.