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Super image. Very eye-catching.

Thanks all for the kind comments.

Yes, I have an MPE-65, but it doesn't work well for what I'm doing at the moment, for several reasons. It is restricted to 1X to 5X. I need to use less than 1X and more than 5X, often moving in and out of the 1X to 5X range while photographing a particular subject. This lets me make a series of...

Thanks Alan. Thanks Ben. As to skill, please bear in mind that for me at least getting shots that work is very hit and miss. I suspect that is generally the case for people photographing small subjects hand-held, but I'm sure some people have much steadier hands and better hand/eye...

The second of these was captured in our garden last august, the other four were captured in the church grounds opposite our house, the third last November and the other three last month. The last two were fairly small. The springtail at #4 was probably around 2mm head and body. I don't have a...

These were captured in the grounds of the church opposite our house last November. The images were captured hand-held with a Canon EF mount Laowa 100mm 2X macro lens and a pair of 2X Kenko teleconverters attached to a Sony A7rii with a Sigma MC-11 EF to Sony E mount adapter, and a Yongnuo YN24EX...

Thanks Jim. That is down to my wife. She is a very keen gardener. A poppy of some sort I suppose. I would have to ask my wife about that, but unfortunately I can't just now. I am useless at naming flowers (or anything else for that matter). An anemone I think. I generally like my insects...

Thanks Ben.

Thanks Alan. Bright overcast days are I think generally recommended for flowers, to avoid bleaching the colours as far as I recall. But I like bright sunny days because of the play of light effects that I can sometimes get. I don't really understand about the colour issue. It seems to me that if...

I think the rear seedhead alignment and the background work really well with the subject to combine into a very appealing image. Good execution.

In our garden. #1 1979 01 2021_08_24 P1278133 LR 1300h DNAIc (2) by gardenersassistant, on Flickr #2 1979 04 2021_08_24 P1278448 LR 1300h DNAIc (1) by gardenersassistant, on Flickr #3 1979 12 2021_08_24 P1289072-Edit LR 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr #4 1979 07 2021_08_24...

Very attractive. I think it has nice light, good clarity of the subject and a pleasing composition. I think it may be a Flesh fly.

Thanks Douglas.

Thanks Jim. When they are blowing bubbles they are less inclined to fly off and so you can often get quite a long time to try different angles etc. No one seems to know why they do it. (There are lots of theories of course.) Me too! It doesn't work out so well very often, not for me...

Thanks Jameel. That's the line I take. My aim is to try to create (what I think of as) "pretty pictures". Veracity, "present an accurate record", "portray it as it looked" etc has never been my thing. I do like my images to be more or less credible, at least to my eyes., but of course that too...