Daisy, critter and rose petals

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Working on our daisy patch again this afternoon.

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Aperture : f/5.6
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Whitebalance : Manual (Shade -2)
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Exposure time : 1/60
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Then this little critter arrived out of nowhere, total unprepared I fired off a few shots in quick succession before it took off. I have got a long way to go yet with my bug catching technique...

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The kids were out playing the football at the same time, the incoming football hit the rose bush next to me, petals flying everywhere... this was the end result:

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All taken with D70, 105mm micro, and SB-800 with diffuser on camera. Comments most welcome.

Regards,
Jonathan

 

[daodang]

Hi Jonathan,

Beautiful pictures. The last one is very artistic. Congrats for a good work done.

 

[kramp]

Those are great Jonathan, the flowers and the insects.

Martin

 

[Leigh]

Marvelous....keep it up!