How small can you and your camera go
This is an article written for the #augustinleo writing prompt series for today's Day 7 prompt .... Apologies yes I started on the 7th and did not finish until today the 8th!
This prompt could be described as being a bit wee or small...
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Day 7 Take your camera and share in the community Photographers the best photos of the smallest things you can find! Let's appreciate the details in our surroundings!
This topic is right up my alley or natural garden so to speak
I love photography
Ever since I was a kid I loved photography, but it was so fluffing expensive.
Yes for me it was film cameras, if you were lucky you could find developers and you would get a 2 for 1 deal.
It meant you did not really practice.
Fast forward many years and we are digital.
We can experiment....
So let's get into the garden of life ....
August in the UK ...
... means pollinator time.
Do you know what this insect is?
Here is a wee clue ... does it seem to be hovering?
It is a marmalade hoverfly.
Hoverflies are wondferful insects, and believe it or not, they are present all year round in the UK!
If you are lucky you get to see two together, note to all the dirty buggers in the audience, they are not I repeat not having sex or fornicating... they are both pollinating!
Yes hoverfies are pollinators too, it is not just bees that do that!
Look at how close you can get.
I have a steady hand and am lucky... Let's take one more close up shot.
There we have a marmalade hoverfly in all his glory.
The humble bumblebee
Do you know something funny?
I have a cool bridge camera that is awesome to use .... but ....
... I can't get the hang of macro photography!!!
So I still use a phone for this sort of photography
Maybe one day when I get the inclination or is it the patience then I shall try to crack the macro photography using my camera.
The to do list just keeps getting longer and longer.
There is one saving grace though, insect photography like this is so soothing and calming. I did take quite a few pictures of the bumble bee, Iwonder if I can make a gif!!
In the meantime I do closer on another hoverfy ...
By the way hoverflies are not wasps, they do not sting you and they are gooood guys!
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my response to the prompt.
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This article is an entry for this month's Inleo writing initiative #augustinleo
You can find all the details in this thread
Today's prompt is Day 7 Photos of the smallest things
All ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated, note lead image is generated with AI on pixlr.com from a prompt by me.The other photographs are all orginal and taken by me the author.
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@tengolotodo.leo August 8th 2024
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