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During the winter almost all the animals I have found have been rather small, springtails, aphids, barkflies etc and similarly sized spiders. Hoppers about the largest. So it was nice a couple of days ago when the sun came out and I thought this might bring out some of the larger animals. I had other things to do but I eventually got over the road to the church grounds opposite our house which has proved so productive in the past year and more. I straight away found a bluebottle fly, but I couldn't get a decent angle on it. And then a (I think) drone fly, which stuck around long enough to let me try several angles.
And then the sun went in. No more larger subjects. It was back to the small stuff. And I didn't find much of that. So eventually I looked at some round things on leaves. Last two images. Don't know what it is.
I used a Canon EF mount Laowa 100mm 2X macro lens and a pair of 2X Kenko teleconverters attached to a Sony A7sii with a Sigma MC-11 EF to Sony E mount adapter, and a Yongnuo YN24EX twin flash with flash heads reversed and firing into a 12 inch (30cm) diameter bowl lined with printer paper over aluminium foil, and a single diffusion layer of artificial silk.
The raw files were processed with PhotoLab, Lightroom and DeNoise AI.
The rest of the images from the session are in this album at Flickr.
#1
2026 01 2022_03_17 DSC03427_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2
2026 03 2022_03_17 DSC03433_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3
2026 08 2022_03_17 DSC03440_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4
2026 10 2022_03_17 DSC03470_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5
2026 11 2022_03_17 DSC03476_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6
2026 12 2022_03_17 DSC03493_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#7
2026 17 2022_03_17 DSC03528_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#8
2026 19 2022_03_17 DSC03523_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
And then the sun went in. No more larger subjects. It was back to the small stuff. And I didn't find much of that. So eventually I looked at some round things on leaves. Last two images. Don't know what it is.
I used a Canon EF mount Laowa 100mm 2X macro lens and a pair of 2X Kenko teleconverters attached to a Sony A7sii with a Sigma MC-11 EF to Sony E mount adapter, and a Yongnuo YN24EX twin flash with flash heads reversed and firing into a 12 inch (30cm) diameter bowl lined with printer paper over aluminium foil, and a single diffusion layer of artificial silk.
The raw files were processed with PhotoLab, Lightroom and DeNoise AI.
The rest of the images from the session are in this album at Flickr.
#1
2026 01 2022_03_17 DSC03427_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#2
2026 03 2022_03_17 DSC03433_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#3
2026 08 2022_03_17 DSC03440_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#4
2026 10 2022_03_17 DSC03470_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#5
2026 11 2022_03_17 DSC03476_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#6
2026 12 2022_03_17 DSC03493_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#7
2026 17 2022_03_17 DSC03528_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
#8
2026 19 2022_03_17 DSC03523_PLab5 1300h DNAIc by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
