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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 784933" data-attributes="member: 46690">An absolute stunner of a day here on Mt. Crumpit, made all the more brilliant coming as it did on the heals of yesterday's torrential rains. It would have been a shame to miss this opportunity, so I grabbed the D500 and a pair of lenses and headed off into our woods looking for...anything. Ok, for this week's challenge subject "From the Soil" I suppose, but really just to get out in this magnificent weather and see what I could see.And I saw stuff! A lot of bugs, for one:[ATTACH=full]375973[/ATTACH].[ATTACH=full]375974[/ATTACH].[ATTACH=full]375975[/ATTACH].[ATTACH=full]375976[/ATTACH].I have no idea what the following species are. Any insectologists here?[ATTACH=full]375980[/ATTACH].[ATTACH=full]375981[/ATTACH].[ATTACH=full]375982[/ATTACH].Not bugs:[ATTACH=full]375983[/ATTACH].[ATTACH=full]375984[/ATTACH].[ATTACH=full]375985[/ATTACH]One of those last two will be my entry in challenge. Can I just say how much I'm loving both my D500 and that little 40mm Nikkor Micro? I mean, I would not have stood a chance in hell of catching those bugs in flight with my D5500 (terrific camera it very well is otherwise). But that D500 just snapped into focus and kept focus on some pretty zippy little buggers today. Big thanks to WoodyG by the way, who mentioned to me the focus setting he uses to get his amazing bird pictures. It really helped!</blockquote>