Stunning image; stunning feat of finding the thing!

The topic stumped me too for a start so I thought outside the box and went into the box - of paperclips. Over to you Rodney.

Thank you both.
I don't have a DA*300 but I do have a standard 55-300 that takes equally good pictures. I tend to leave that on the K5 since the PLM is designed for the K3. The PLM's auto focus is marginally quicker but image quality is comparable I think. The only extra benefit is that it's quiet.

In the absence of many butterflies I went out to bother the dragonflies. A local farmer dredged his pond last year and removed all
the bushes and brambles that had grown up around it. Opening it up has attracted a lot of new visitors already.

1. A female emperor would have preferred a bit of peace while laying her eggs but this damselfly had other ideas.



2. It took a long time for the male emperor to stop whizzing about and alight. (I've failed completely to catch any in flight!)



3. This four spotted chaser has been chasing too often from the state of its hindwing, which is gathering damage.



4. The same dragonfly from a different angle. It had made a favourite of this perch and returned to it often.



5. Finally, I saw something quite large hopping and crawling about in a nearby bush. It turned out to be a
Rosels bush cricket. These only lived in the far south but have been following the warming climate North, apparently
by spreading along motorway verges and reservations!



All with a K3ii and PLM 55-300.

Come on folks - Give Rodney a bit of support.The weekly competition has two days to go and there are only two entries.

The first one is about as close to perfection that you will get, I think!

Glad somebody actually has some butterflies to shoot - very few in the Midlands. These are really good too.

Lovely! Saxifrage?

I think that one is a cinnabar moth (?). Well photographed, whatever.

Well if you show them the one of the earwig that you put on here you won't need to say "I took this, it's great". They will assume that straightway!
Have a good time!