The world changed for me when I put my macro lens back on my camera, simultaneous becoming smaller and bigger. Instead of looking in the distance for birds, I switched my focus to the world immediately in from of me, searching for tiny objects that I can photograph.
In vain I long for colorful butterflies and dragonflies, but it is too early in the spring for them to appear. As soon as a fly buzzed by me, I was seized with an irresistible urge to capture its image. It’s only a fly (a Green Bottle Fly, I think), but it is symbolic of the joys to come, the time when I will spend endless hours chasing after insects, trying to capture the detailed beauty of their colors and patterns.
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wonderful photo congratulations! love it!
Going with the urges usually gets you good photos. The shadow made this more interesting.
Truly, we are all anticipating what is to come, because this white stuff we are incessantly pelted with is getting really tiresome!! I guess at this point t, too, would welcome a colorful fly for a subject.
How did you get so close without it leaving!
That’s a great close up shot.
Negative on it being a green bottle fly…among other things, the eyes are too close together. It is in the bottle fly family, though (Calliphoridae).
Glad to see that I had the right family at least. 🙂 I guess I need to learn more about flies.