Not Your Common House Fly
by admin on Sep.29, 2009, under Birds
I don’t know about you but I’ve found the Fall songbird migration to be pretty pathetic. Carrying 25 lbs. of camera equipment requires motivation and I just haven’t had any. Fortunately, there are insects to photograph and the equipment goes down to about 6 lbs. 
Using a Canon 50D camera, Canon’s excellent 100mm f/2.8 macro lens and a Canon 580EX II external flash, you can have a lot of fun walking around Shakespeare Garden in Central Park and find lots to shoot. There are butterflies, wasps, bees, caterpillars, katydids and lots of flies. Here are a bunch of fly photos that look nothing like common house flies. It’s hard to believe how interesting and beautiful they are. Let me know what you think.
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September 29th, 2009 on 1:36 pm
Great Photos! Who knew about the insects…another way to spend time having fun!
Hope to see you on Saturday at Jamaica Bay.
Gerry
October 2nd, 2009 on 12:08 am
The image of sphaerophoria species is outstanding!!!
October 2nd, 2009 on 12:35 am
Hi David,
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Thanks. That fly is only about 5mm. If you figure 25mm to the inch you can see how tiny it is
October 3rd, 2009 on 3:29 am
Hello Lloyd, Cracking photos! I know how it feels lugging 25lbs of camera equipment – thanks to Karl who’s been motivating me
I wish you well!