Common Darters - Up Close

I had a play around yesterday with some macro shots of Common Darter dragonflies. It is amazing watching them catching flies in mid air. On the second picture you can see it is holding it's freshly caught prey. It must be pleased with itself, as it has such a lovely smile.

Insect Close Ups

A few more macro images from the last week.

Digger Wasp

Honey Bee

Greenbottle

Hoverfly

Hoverfly

Close Ups with a Warning

It's that time of year when my attention turns do doing some macro photography. As I have said before I only dabble but this year I think I'll put a bit more effort in. I spent a few hours in the garden yesterday hoping to get some wasp shots, I managed a few but the star of the show was a Flesh Fly, hence the WARNING of some very detailed close-up fly images at the end of this post.

Wasp

Hoverfly

Bumble Bee

Flesh Fly