PHOTOGRAPHY
The Fly… And More Macro Images
I’m always looking for something to capture with my macro lens
Scrolling through my photos, looking for macro photos, I came across an image of a fly. I edited it, scrolled on and… came across a photo of a fly… well, you get the picture… see what I did there?
Whenever we go out for a day and take our cameras, I always take my backpack with all my lenses in it. Mostly I start out with the 18–105mm lens, and depending on where we are, I sometimes change to my 18–300mm lens. But, I am forever looking for things I can capture with my 40mm macro lens. I really want another macro lens, but it’s almost a thousand euros, so I make do with what I have, and accept that not all images will be perfect.
Today, I’m sharing a handful of my macro images with you. For each I share, I took five to ten photos of the subject, because you never know when you take that one perfect image!
Green fly
In the same field where I captured the image above, but on a different day, this fly sat on this piece of grass, long enough for me to capture a couple of images. When I zoom in on this image, I see the details are not as I had it in mind, or my lens is just not strong enough to capture it, but I am quite happy with the result.
I’m watching you
In the previous post where I shared my everyday photography, I already shared an image of this little fellow, but it was such a photogenic little creature, that I had to share it here again. This image was made before the one previously shared, just as it walked towards me over the round wooden bar.
Another fly
Sometimes I walk around in our garden, camera in hand, and just look around to see if I can find something worth capturing with my camera. This fly sat on the birch tree we have in the garden, and I am sure it watched me as much as I did it while I snapped an image, moved a bit closer, and snapped another. Only after the fourth image, it flew away.
Mushrooms in summer
Back in June 2019, my husband and I went to a nature walking area not far from here, and of course, we had our cameras with us. The parking area was surrounded by huge tree trunks, leaving openings to get onto the walking paths. It was on one of those tree trunks I discovered these little beauties, and I think this must have been the first time I saw mushrooms in summer. They weren’t that big, but big enough to capture with my macro lens.
Dead fly
Then sometimes, you just get lucky. In summer we have a lot of flies, and I’m sure it’s the same everywhere, they always choose to die inside, on the window sill. I was cleaning up when I saw this one and grabbed my camera. This time I finally managed to capture the details of the eye, simply because I could get closer to it than I would’ve had it been a living creature.
Skyward
Something I love to do when out in nature is to look up. Whether it’s looking up at the sky through the branches of the trees, or crouching down and taking pictures of flowers or other weeds etched against the sky. On the day this image was taken there were clouds and blue sky, but they totally fell away because of the focus on the plant.
Sunbathing fly
It seems I forever find flies when I walk around with my macro lens. This is another one where you can see the texture on one of the eyes if you zoom in, and this one was still very much alive!
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