Lavender Bug

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

This is first light for my new (2nd hand) Canon 20d.
It's a crop from a larger image.
The only lens I have at the moment is a 17-55mm. So I can't get really up close and personal yet. Still, it's good enough to get me started.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Jeanette,

That's gorgeous.

Regards,
Humayun

[Robert_T]

Wow, this is great Jeanette, how you've managed to freeze this bug in flight and achieve perfect focus on it. I've tried this a number of times with bees and it's not easy

[ving (David)]

sweet jeanette!
nice hover fly

[renormalised (Carl)]

Great piccie Jeanette, that was captured beautifully!!!

I wonder what species of hover fly that is??

I'd like to be able to get those lenses that keep both the background and foreground in focus....that'd be excellent!!!

[madtuna (Steve)]

excellent!!

[Matty P (Matt)]

Great work JJJ, nice and sharp.

Beautiful!

[Ric]

Well done JJJ, those Hover flies are so skitish they make a tough target.

[RB (Andrew)]

Wow, great shot jjj.

[Liz]

Very pretty shot jjj, good luck with camera.

[venus (Lydia)]

lovely image, great capture.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Thanks for the kind comments everyone.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Jeanette, there's a photography competition being run by Better Photography magazine in which you can win a Sony a200 camera kit as the prize for several categories of piccie. I think you should enter because after seeing this piccie, I think you're good enough to win. If you want to enter (or even just have a look), here's the address...

www.betterphotography.com