From your garden/backyard

[Birma]

Very neat backyard fly Yildiz

[Wildieswife]

Ditto to Birma ! And never forget - it's not just bees that pollinate. And all invertebrates are worth photographing and appreciating. Even 'ordinary' flies are little marvels of ingenuity!

Pat

[bakubo]

Greg, Pat, Yilidiz: Those are all wonderful photos of creatures in the garden!

Here is one a few days ago in a garden pond:

[sury]

I could actually feel the surface tension on the water where those legs rest. Well captured Henry. Love it.

Sury

[Ken M]

I am just glad we have no more snow in the backyard!!!

Does it look better cropped? or still too much??

[Birma]

Nice Pond Skater Henry

Wow Ken - extreme close-up! I find it slightly mesmerising.

[sury]

I love it. This is much more in your face close up, Ken.

Sury

[Greg Beetham]

Wowzer this thread is poppin since I last checked, a great bee macro from Pat and a what looks like a fruit fly type checking out a cheerful bright flower from Yildiz, (Hi Yildiz ) also a neat close up of a water strider from Henry.
Thanks for the nice comments on the frog all.
Greg
Ps I think I liked the original shot better Ken, although the new one isn’t bad either.

Warning: ‘R’ rated rude photo. A700 KM100macro (not a very good shot, just a bit of fun)

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[bakubo]

Ken, I like this photo very much! The crop really improves it a lot, IMO.

Greg, that photo of the flies is very well done! Looks like the guy in the back must be doing it right because look at that expression on the gal's face in the front: Oooooooh!

Another critter from a few days ago with the G15:

[Birma]

Hehe. That must be what they cal "getting caught with your flies down"

You must have been quick to catch them Greg, or where they too distracted?

Nice ant on the bamboo Henry.

[mvanrheenen]

Sweet shot Ken!

As a human you don't want to be caught at the business end of that bamboo The ant definitely doesn't care about that!

Time flies when your having fun, Greg

Mark

[Wildieswife]

Grand pond skater, great flower, "R" (for romantic?) flies and neat image to show a tiny fly on bamboo.

As we're on with macros at the moment here's a Green Veined White -





A Snail - my he was fast ! Hehehe






And the actual wildlife garden! A stitch I did yesterday- but there was no sun to show off the apple blossom etc. The pond is back right from this. There is another section behind the bushes on the left. You can see the new roof on the hide. The brick shed is next to be felted.




Pat

[Birma]

Wonderful butterfly shot Pat - both antennae in focus is big challenge for me and you've got it perfectly here. Nice to see the garden picture as well

[aster]

Thanks for the kind comments everyone!

Pat, I shall treasure your reminder... I suppose we don't associate flies with pollination much as opposed to bees and other creatures. They do like visiting the most dirty places also, so that's what must have intruded with the benefits.

Well, love the input here. Some are beautiful and some are rare to come by....

Yildiz

[Greg Beetham]

Ha ha thanks guys, great fly jokes, and Henry’s commentary on proceedings also.
Henry it looks like someone did a chop-sui on the bamboo for some reason, and those black ants (some of them) can really bite, there’s one here that if you get bitten by will ache for hours…much pain. The ant detail looks good though.
I really like the macros Pat very nicely done and the back yard looks like a great place for bird photography too, quite a bit neater than mine.
Greg