Some invertebrates at Clapton Moor

[GardenersHelper]

I have been going through my backlog and have just processed these from a visit to a local nature reserve in May 2015. The images were captured hand-held with an FZ200 small sensor bridge camera and close-up lens (quite possibly a Raynox 150 for all of them) and flash (probably a then recently purchased Venus Optics KX800 twin flash with a first generation DIY diffusion arrangement). All used an aperture equivalent to f/45 on full frame.

The raw files were batch processed in DXO PhotoLab, Silkypix Developer Pro and Lightroom CC, with image-specific adjustments (simply cropping in most cases) in Lightroom.

There are 1400 pixel high versions in this album at Flickr.

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1308 06 2015_05_15 P1730070_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 04 2015_05_15 P1730053_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#3 This one has motion blur/ghosting, but I thought it was unusual enough to keep anyway.

1308 09 2015_05_15 P1730071_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 26 2015_05_15 P1730169_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 12 2015_05_15 P1730079_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 16 2015_05_15 P1730097_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 32 2015_05_15 P1730194_DxO RAW SP7 LR7-2 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 29 2015_05_15 P1730186_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr


continued in next post ....

 

[GardenersHelper]

#9

1308 24 2015_05_15 P1730151_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 25 2015_05_15 P1730160_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 18 2015_05_15 P1730105_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 21 2015_05_15 P1730145_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 23 2015_05_15 P1730144_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 13 2015_05_15 P1730085_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 34 2015_05_15 P1730200_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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1308 30 2015_05_15 P1730192_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

 

[davholla]

A lacewing flying is so unusual that it does no have to perfect. Nice photos.
Here is an interesting website http://www.insektenflug.de/
and his flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99927961@N06/albums

 

[GardenersHelper]

A lacewing flying is so unusual that it does no have to perfect. Nice photos.
Here is an interesting website http://www.insektenflug.de/
and his flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99927961@N06/albums

Thanks David. Terrific links. I had a quick look at the insects in flight site - amazing. I'll spend some time looking through that!

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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Thank you Nick for making my day with these Spring
colours in this shyty, muddy weather we have now!

 

[Graham]

Do I have to repeat myself again and again, T E R R I F I C Shots Nick as always and thanks for making my mouth water as I just cant wait for some descent sun to arrive (Yes even here its shytie) to bring out the bugs and beauties here.

 

[GardenersHelper]

Thank you Nick for making my day with these Spring colours in this shyty, muddy weather we have now!

Do I have to repeat myself again and again, T E R R I F I C Shots Nick as always and thanks for making my mouth water as I just cant wait for some descent sun to arrive (Yes even here its shytie) to bring out the bugs and beauties here.

Thanks both. The snow has gone from here over the past couple of days, so hopefully we can get on with Spring now. The flowers that were in bloom are wrecked (including rather a lot unfortunately on a couple of camellias), but there are already a handful of new ones coming out. No sign of insects yet, apart from one bee I saw crawling around amongst the crocuses.

 

[alfbranch]

Great work as usual Nick.

 

[GardenersHelper]

Great work as usual Nick.

Thanks Alf.