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Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:43 pm
These were from a couple of days ago when it was dry, almost still and 16 degrees. How quickly life emerges!

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Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:34 pm
Gorgeous shots, as always! It's still too cold for insects where I am.
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Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:14 pm
ooo, I just saw my first bee fly of the year, enjoying forgetmenots in the sun. It's proboscis was so long it could barely sit on the flower and eat. Like eating with a long spoon, the length of its body.

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Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:37 pm
I saw one too yesterday, got a shot of his fluffy behind before he ran away. They're brilliant.

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Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:42 pm
Beautiful shots!! Some of you may know that I wake up VERY early. So I went out in the garden at around 5 am grumpy as hell. But then a miracle happened a little later: two willow warblers where hopping about the mirabelle tree searching for insects. I hadn't seen them in a long while. No pic, sorry.

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Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:42 pm
What fabulous photos @coccinella Brava!!
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Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:57 am
Hello @Tui34 nice to see you here. The shots on this thread are Liz's. Smile
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Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:24 pm
We were walking the dogs through the bluebells this morning and kept spotting these little moths, so I just had to come back with the camera. Of course most had gone by the time I got there one or two obliged

Adela reaumurella, the green longhorn

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Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:06 pm
Found this little guy making his way across the pasture yesterday, I think it might be some sort of water bug?  Sorry, not the most glamorous of insects, but I'm working with what I have.  The first insects of the year 1f609
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Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:28 pm
My neighbours have just discovered bed bugs. Joy! We all do a lot of swapping of clothes and furniture etc, but that might all get much quiter if there are bedbug infestations locally. 😶 Not the kind of spring insects I was hoping to encounter.
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Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:11 pm
Any joy getting rid of the bedbugs, Anna? I try not to kill insects but I think there I'd maybe take a different view.

A few of my old friends are reappearing

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Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:18 pm
Liz wrote:Any joy getting rid of the bedbugs, Anna? I try not to kill insects but I think there I'd maybe take a different view.

Luckily they are not my bedbuds but my neighbours. God forbid that end up at my place. It does make me consider more carefully baout taking second hand furniture etc
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Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:21 pm
The latest cold spell has held back my Camassia flowers, but I noticed a little visitor this morning.

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Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:44 pm
gish. What a clear picture! It could be on a billboard. Is it layered?
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Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:23 am
Nope, just the usual contrast, vibrance & sharpen adjustments. I did crop it first though to give a better frame and lose some clutter from the right side. But yeah I'm pleased with how it turned out.

I've heard people talk of this layering (and stacking) thing but I've never done it.
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Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:28 am
me neither. Did you use a tripod? Do you as a rule?
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Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:12 am
No, no tripod today as the light was great and my macro lens is image-stabilised. But I do sometimes use a tripod & cable-release.

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Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:36 am
Superb. Don't sound apologetic about cropping. It can be hard to get the composition spot on with insects (I find) as you often have to grab the moment. It's a great image, no matter how you did it.
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Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:13 pm
For interest (and because I'm amongst photographer friends) this is the image I captured without any adjustments. Camera settings were 100mm, 1/350th sec, f5.6, ISO400.

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Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:18 pm
gosh - so much to learn! One day I will get there
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Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:51 pm
You will. Smile

f/5.6? I never go that far for macros! f/4.5 at most. I should try,
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