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  • True, but it's frustrating with macro stuff because it often looks great on camera and then turns out the focus is totally off when you get it onto a computer.
    I think one of the problems is my hands just aren't steady enough, even when shooting with flash. Most of the best results I've got resting camera on a beanbag.
    (plus with dead/barely moving creatures).

    Get great pictures with that lens when it's with slightly bigger stuff - e.g. this baby wren my neighbour rescued.


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  • Take a look at focus stacking. There is such a short focal length on macro lenses that you sometimes need to take multiple images and adjust the focus between shots and then combine them in software.

  • I've had a go at this before and got decent results, but seems not a great option for anything that moves

  • Agreed, they don't like posing!!!

  • Not caught on camera, but seeing MAHOOSIVE hornets/Yellowjackets for the first time ever this year. Literally three times the size of a wasp.

  • Fantastic wren picture!

  • I saw similar on a ride last weekend.

  • This is Joe. My 9 year old wanted me to kill it, as he was in the bathroom whilst she was having a bath. Instead I took a picture, she liked his colour and named him. I count that as a win.


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  • It certainly is for Joe (or possibly Josephine), insert joke of your choice referring to mothballs.

  • Disturbed this bumblebee nest digging in the garden. Cool to see but sorry bees!


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  • Found this great Longhorn Beetle today (Agapanthia villosoviridescens). Apparently it's not rare but I've never seen it before - or anything like it.


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  • Magnificent!

  • I had a helping hand in the garden from these two - keeping the pests at bay:

    Edit: The first image is taken on a Peony stalk, I have always wondered why the buds are covered in ants and this article explains why:

    https://ipm.missouri.edu/MEG/2018/5/antsOnPeonies/

  • Anyone noticed a higher number of spiders around this year? Spent the day gardening and constantly seeing them scuttling away. Then spotted a tube web outside my front door, so wandered round with a torch and found eight of the things on my house. They're fascinating, but not sure how I feel about this!

  • A few picturesque bugs today


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  • Just hanging out in mini_com's mud kitchen


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  • Stopped to take a photo of epithelial growth on a youngish Oak and this guy ran into view:


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  • Took a couple of pics of the tube-web spiders. First one is right above my front door. Trying to gently persuade it to kindly go somewhere else.


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  • A female banded demoiselle, I think


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  • ^that is lovely

  • False widow (I'm fairly sure after googling) in the manky velux in my kitchen.


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  • Life on the edge ...


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  • Saw this nice Wasp Beetle, Clytus arietis, today


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  • and a young Black-tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum)


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  • Cantharis rustica, doing a bit of sunbathing.


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Insects and Spiders

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