Henry the Hoverfly

I'm sure I've been told before that this is not a hoverfly, but I can't remember what it is - anyway, we sat in the garden this afternoon and noticed this little critter taking quite an interest in us so out came the 200mm macro, lots of missed focus shots, and a bit of luck with a few to produce these. Not all properly focused but some mike quite a nice image (imo) regardless (click for more detail)....

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What a cool looking bug, reminds me of Top Gun for some reason.

I tried the same a few years ago with the DFA 100, it requires so much patience to snap one of these.

Images 1, 5 and 7 stand out for me. Perhaps 7 is slightly too contrasty though.

All superbly well captured

So you've been doing today what I was doing yesterday, including lots of missed focus shots! Your bug looks just like mine. Did it hover tantalisingly close until you'd just got it in focus then moved off just before the shutter fired?

Well done on getting these shots, I feel your frustration!!

Steve

Those are the tactics it used precisely - it must have been a long flight for it to get from South Dorset to Worcestershire

all very good , the mono one for me.