Great sets Andrew and Stephen. I'm so bummed I couldn't make it.
I can't get enough of damselflies - so delicate and colourful, but challenging to shoot with their long body and trying to keep it in the depth of field.
Really like the long-legged fly (I'm better with common names than the scientific ones). As mentioned, they are very tricky to get. You mentioned flash at 1/2 power. Were you shooting manual flash as opposed to ETTL? If that's the case, there would be no preflash so nothing to scare them before you take the shot, no?
Really nice, soft lighting on the bee shot. Harder to achieve for shiny bugs like the bluebottle.
I'll be up for a get-together with a little more warning
