I think that first fly picture is one of the nicest "live insect" stacks I've seen. Thanks also for the tip of the white umbrella.

Hi Antonio I like the flies especially the last one. I guess they're quite small. My personal experience of micro four thirds is that while it it great for photographing live wild insects, is's extremely sensitive to raising the iso. I always shoot at iso 200 except when I,m trying to get pictures o...

Here's an owlfly I photographed in the Karoo in December. I'm quite intrigued by this family of insects at the moment. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/6547_20190116212934_ZS_retouchedcropshare_1.jpg When I started to process and stack the picture, I noticed the eyes. I don't think I ha...

Thanks Beatsy. I'm amazed at how well Zerene handles hand shake - so long as the subject doesn't move. I left those fossils as I found them - I'm not against properly documented responsible amateur collections, but I think that a casual finders keepers approach ending with the artifact forgotten in ...

Hi all, here is a photograph of a fossil I saw in the karoo over the holidays. It,s an in-camera focus bracket, hand held and then stacked in Zerene Stacker. The lens is the Olympus 60 mm f 2.8.

Nice pictures! I particularly like the last one - a background like that really puts one's attention on the insect. I'm trying to increase my knowledge of my local dragon and damselflies. They are magnificent creatures and can make for great photography.

I got my pair about six weeks ago and am still amazed at the things I see now that I had never noticed before. I think it was the same thread Troels mentioned above that made me aware of them, but here in South Africa they are not exactly in stock everywhere! The shop assistant where I went first sa...

I always get a feeling of excitement when I see that you have posted a new set of pictures. It's rare to find such knowledge of the natural world portrayed in such a sensitive and respectful way, and the pictures are simply beautiful. My favorite of this set is the wasp. It's one of those stranger t...

Nice pictures! I like how stacking gives one the freedom to photograph things from an angle and also how it allows one to have a much more out of focus background which concentrates one's attention on the subject. Is yours hand held, and did you move back and forth in burst mode,or re-focus the lens...

Thanks MarkSturtevant. I also think that the chance for wonder and surprise is much more accessible in macro photography than in wildlife photography where one is going for larger animals. I really think you would enjoy those binocs. If you're not actually wanting to take a picture, the binoculars a...

Thanks ChrisR sorry for that moment of anxiety. Thanks Yawns. For me a huge part of the "magic' of in the field photography is the fact that one can be surprised at any moment. Strangely, it would seem to me that it is quite difficult to notice things that are completely unexpected. Once one has not...

Earlier this year I posted a picture of a mating pair of robber flies where the female ( I think ) was feeding on a butterfly she had caught. I thought this was very unusual - maybe even a once in a lifetime photo. Lou Jost replied on the thread that this is a well documented behaviour of this kind ...

Wow!

Thanks Robert. I hope you really enjoyed South Africa and get the chance to do so again. It's always hard to know how much kit to take with on a trip, and as many of the organised safaris are almost completely vehicle based the opportunities for macro photography could well be mostly limited to the ...

Robber fly wins easily!