A "Giant Spiney Legged Yellow Jacket Horse Fly Mosquito". It is a Florida bug, about 1 inch (25mm) long. Used close focus and 5.6 aperture to get DOF and to lose the background.
M F 55mm with 11MM extension ring. This is about 1/4 of the original, but I could not get much closer without the bug flying off. I have no idea what it is actually called, so I just made up the name from what it looks like.
8-18-07, Rotated and cropped some of the green off, uploaded the edited version to portfolio.
This was shot with all manual equipment and manual mode. Hand held.
That is grass in the background.
I found out later that it is a robber fly.
this would have to be one of the stranger looking insects eh? .. and its posture makes me think its preying on something even smaller than it is .. its body looks a bit like that of a baby bird .. without the legs and the head of course .. :)
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