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Definitely not my best but this was as good as I could get before it dropped to the ground. Apion pomonae - Vetch seed weevil

Slow Worm

Rose Chafer

7-spot ladybird larva.

5-legged red ant.

I only managed this one shot before it scuttled off. Can anyone help with identifying it as I have had no luck in Google searches. :D

Jumpers out in force at the moment.

Another photo from the previous shoot. PS: This is a straight photo. No stacking involved. 40mm +12mm macro ring.

First of all, a question. What do buses and jumping spiders have in common? Don't know? Well as the saying goes, you wait for ages to get one and 3 arrive one after the other. I hadn't seen a jumper this year so far and this morning I came across a little chap, so tiny that I didn't realise at...

Hover Fly

Managed a set of close-ups on one of those Bee-Flies. Here's the first result.

I posted another stacked photo of this amazing guy on the 'Spiders' thread. This is a stack of 7 photos. I couldn't get the ends of the rear legs in focus as the lens was actually touching the floor and almost touching the subject. All of my shots are hand-held unless I'm doing astronomy...

Bombylius major - the Large Bee-Fly. It looks like a bee and buzzes like one but it is a furry cousin of the Horse Fly though it doesn't suck blood. PS: This was taken with a Sigma 70mm-300mm (semi) macro lens with a 32mm macro ring. These guys just don't like anyone getting near them and clear...

Post your Church Photos Here I was somewhat surprised that there is no thread for photos of churches, so here we go. This is a nice church I found in the small town of Saint Jean Rohrbach in Lorraine, France earlier today.

Smiling Lady

The settings for this are horrendous as I wanted to catch the wing(s). Needed a lot of tweaking in PS to get a half-decent result.