Canon R7, Sigma contemporary 150/600mm. It was on a low tree branch so between 2 to 4m away? The odds were NOT in my favor for this picture because I accidentally locked the camera on "ISO 100", this handheld with 2kg+ camera/lens on a windy day. Got lucky :)
Oh that's wonderful. I head "Robin Redbreast" before but I had no idea about Jenny Wren. Lovely!
All of my Dick Grayson fanart came with the wrong bird until I figured out American Robins were a thing.
And the "old world" version of animals are usually superior. I had a very confusing conversation about squirrels with a New Yorker friend who was describing squirrels as fluffier rats, and I was describing lovely furballs. Then we respectively found out about grey/red squirrels.
“Turdus” being Latin for “thrush” and having absolutely nothing to do with their propensity to crap on your car. Honest.
Here I am, wiping european tears of laughter off my cheeks. Incidentally, I was wondering who blackbirds had pissed off to be named "Turdus Merula", aka "poop noxious fungus".
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27734177
> Bless this little potato for posing perfectly for me.
A meadow scorpionfly snacking on a dead caterpillar (peacock butterfly), next to (mayyyybe?) the cocoon of the parasite that killed the caterpillar.
I'm not entirely sure of the subspecies. They are tiny, adorable, and really favor tansy.
Females do not, actually, have the orange tips on their wings, but the patterns on the underside are gorgeous.
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes). They're cute as heck so I'm gonna be stalking their foraging area.
Thank you! A proper camera (R7) with a 85mm lens :) I know some people manage great macro with their phones, but I couldn't have gotten close enough with a phone, the bees hurried back into their tunnels whenever I got near.
Grey backed mining bee (Andrena vaga) waiting for me to get away from her nest.
Herons look so incredibly cool. Until you see them from the front, of course. Gorgeous shot!
I know they're not rare or anything, but it's the first time I get to observe some.
Sorry for the shaky video, I keep forgetting to take a beanbag.
You drive through the fields and spot a dishevelled young woman hunching over roadkill, reaching into the corpse with pliers as flies buzz around her. You accidentally make eye contact just as she - grinning - drops a writhing maggot into a translucent plastic bottle.
I love it too! I wish I had noticed it when the picture was taken, because it's gorgeous.
Bees are macro on hard mode, they never stop moving. You did a fantastic job. I always end up using burst mode and prayer. Have fun experimenting!
90% "that's amazing, I had no idea it looked so cool" and 10% "what is this ungodly abomination, let me unsee this" in my experience :)
The only reason I didn't impulse buy a teleconverter to tack on my impulse bought 600mm is that it would just get me (more) underexposed pictures. But the urge is real, and we don't even have bald eagles around here.
It's based on a template, I made it for the Afternoon Tea pixel club: https://lostletters.neocities.org/afternoontea/ which you should check out :)
It seemed to be doing fine as far as "racing over plants and climbing from leaf to leaf" was concerned.
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