Dave Watkins

Thanks Dahlia. 🙂 The purple and green color combo is a stand out in the garden.

Me too. It’s a very pretty flower when fully open. But that day I noticed it looks pretty nice at this stage too.

It sure is. For us the Asters blooming means more butterflies will be showing up soon. 🙂

Thank you all for the comments. 🙂 I’m guessing it’s the color combo that makes it so attractive to all the pollen lovers.

Like Patrick said. Well captured, nice light and that rounded fence post(?) makes a perfect perch.

Superb trio of images Tobie. A very classy looking bird with those orange wing feathers and long tail. Nice work.

Beautiful shot Bruce. Tonal range throughout the sand is terrific. Congratulations.

Thanks Crystal. This is a Coreopsis aka Tickseed. Very popular with the pollinators in our garden.

Thumbs up.

Really funny JD! Thanks for posting it. 🙂

Fun pics Diane. Love how the little feller(?) can balance on such a tiny web. I’ve become a big fan of the insect world during this lockdown. Quite a strange and fascinating miniature world all around us.

🙂 I thought about putting a “Graphic content”  warning in the title. 🙂

Thanks Joanne. You snuck in while I was typing. 🙂

Thanks for the comments Dahlia, Petr and Patrick. I haven’t seen many of these and they don’t sit still for long so was happy to get a nice shot of one. Others I’ve seen were black. I love the amber color of this one.

Thanks Petr. I’m amazed how good they are at blending in to their surroundings.

Hi Patrick. Nice to learn a little more about the people we chat with here at Light Stalking. Thumbs up on the robin on fence shot. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

I think you’re off to a great start. Nice light, nice composition, nice color. I also like the angle of view. Your point of focus, the hover fly’s eyes, is too soft for my taste. At least some of that is probably from the noise in the image.  DOF is very shallow when shooting macro. Which works nicely sometimes. Sometimes not. It’s almost…[Read more]