Butterflies, Moths and Assorted Insects...

AlanF · Sep 3, 2023

Green Stink Bug.

AlanF · Sep 3, 2023

Goat Moth Caterpillar taken by my wife with R7 RF 100-400mm. It's a monster.

cooldood · Sep 4, 2023

ISv · Sep 5, 2023

Here are some of the first shots from my daughter taken on her way to Bulgaria (she didn't fly with us...). These are from Seattle where she had to wait for a connection for several hours.
I'm not a fan of separating the topics into different groups and I'm going to dump all her photos here. For a while I was even thinking of opening a new topic but it would be just an another separating!!!
Just two spiders as a beginning! As usually for her all hand-hold with Nikon D7200xSigma 105mm. The crops are not what I intended but posting my crops I got the message "files too big"?!

Click · Sep 5, 2023

Awesome! Well done, ISv.

Maximilian · Sep 5, 2023

Maximilian said:
Today I found a North American visitor in my firewood. Apparently it found the heated living room very attractive.
These western conifer seed bugs (leptoglossus occidentalis) are adventive species and were found here in Europe (1999) and Germany (2006) only a few years ago. I recognized them first about 6 years ago, when WCSB appeared in large numbers in Germany after several hot summers that were favourable for its reproduction.
It is quite easy to classify, as the brown pattern and especially the expanded hindleg tibiae are unique compared to endemic bugs.

The WCSBs have returned this year again.
This time "in the wild" and with much better light.
R6m2@500mm, f/16, 1/500, ISO1000

Click · Sep 5, 2023

Nice shots, Maximilian. I particularly like the second one for the position of the insect.

Maximilian · Sep 5, 2023

Click said:
Nice shots, Maximilian. I particularly like the second one for the position of the insect.

Same here.
But I also like the tip to toe sharpness of the first

AlanF · Sep 5, 2023

ISv said:
Here are some of the first shots from my daughter taken on her way to Bulgaria (she didn't fly with us...). These are from Seattle where she had to wait for a connection for several hours.
I'm not a fan of separating the topics into different groups and I'm going to dump all her photos here. For a while I was even thinking of opening a new topic but it would be just an another separating!!!
Just two spiders as a beginning! As usually for her all hand-hold with Nikon D7200xSigma 105mm. The crops are not what I intended but posting my crops I got the message "files too big"?!

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Great shots from your daughter - genes are working.

AlanF · Sep 5, 2023

Now for something completely boring. This plain moth flew in tonight and I took some shots at 1/40s, iso12800, 500mm f/7.1 R5. Apparently, it's called The Snout.

EricN · Sep 5, 2023

AlanF said:
Now for something completely boring. This plain moth flew in tonight and I took some shots at 1/40s, iso12800, 500mm f/7.1 R5. Apparently, it's called The Snout.

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IS and DXO make it possible, right?

Maximilian · Sep 6, 2023

AlanF said:
Apparently, it's called The Snout.

That's a good one

Maximilian · Sep 6, 2023

A small copper (lycaena phlaeas), a first sight in our habitat.
First pic with coulds, second in bright sun. AWB and exposure autocorrection do a good job.
R6m2@500mm

AlanF · Sep 6, 2023

Maximilian said:
That's a good one

Schnauze?

Maximilian · Sep 6, 2023

AlanF said:
Schnauze?

Eher "Rüssel" in diesem Fall, aber ja, "Schnauze" kann man auch sagen

Click · Sep 6, 2023

Nice pictures, Maximilian.

AlanF · Sep 7, 2023

Speckled Wood Butterfly R7/RF100-400.

Click · Sep 7, 2023

Beautiful picture, Alan. I really like the tone on tone.

AlanF · Sep 7, 2023

Click said:
Beautiful picture, Alan. I really like the tone on tone.

Thanks Click. I thought of you when I posted it.

ISv · Sep 9, 2023

In the last few days I'm very busy with developing the NEF files from Bulgaria of my daughter... She has 4 memory cards full with photos and I just finished the second folder (out of 4) from the first (256GB) card. Two of the others are of 128 and the last one is only 64GB. She doesn't have the PL6 and is using only the JPEG files for her Instagram account... I'm including only the most interesting/colorful insects from the second folder here. One day after some rest I will post also the rest of the photos from the first folder (you already saw some from Seattle). All the crops are my work, she usually is cropping differently.