D-O-F ?

What Depth-of-Field?




Certainly not much here, between the lines of lens- components in the this horsefly's eye!
K5, 50 reversed on 200.
Quite a bit of PP ........

Roger.

(P.S.

This is a single shot, not a stack!

Roger.)

I like it.

Who can possibly disagree ... ? Are you sure it's not an SEM image of something atomic???

Fascinatingly abstract and technically superb.

Steve
P.S. How's the Orange Tip pupa?

Thanks, Peter & Steve.

The Orange Tip pupae (for there are four of the little fellas!), are very much the same as when I last posted.....
Try as I may, I can't find anywhere an accurate prediction of how long they will take to emerge.
The problem is, usually there is one brood a year, with the pupa over-wintering, then emerging the following April/May.
In exceptional years, the very early-laid eggs undergo a sort of truncated metamorphosis, finally becoming butterflies in June /July of the same (this!) year.

So, I don't know/ cannot find out, into which scenario these that I have belong!

The first one, the one featured on my posts, hatched from the egg on 21st. April & then pupated on
8th. May, now about six weeks ago.

If anyone knows how the emergence time can be calculated, I'd be very pleased to hear!
If there's no way of knowing, & it's next year, then so be it!

I will keep you posted, as they say!

Roger.

Have you tried ringing a butterfly farm? There's a big one in Stratford on Avon for example.
Whoops, sorry. That's a fantastic shot. Makes a fine abstract.

Thanks All, for looking & for your kind remarks!

Roger.