Two more pictures today from my early experimenting with my new lens, proving what an amazing all-rounder it really is.
The first shot shows the flowers of Ribes sanguineum a flowering current and this variety is called "Porky's Pink" and eventually those pretty flowers will be replaced by fruit.
The second flower is Red Campion or Red Catchfly, I really don't understand how it earns the "Red" part of its name but even so it is a pretty little thing.
Recently a good friend told me how much they liked my photos of flowers and since I aim to please I deliberately set out yesterday to take some new pictures of plants and flowers.
The first picture today (if my research is correct) is a male red campion. It was growing in shaded woodland, I have some growing in my garden, courtesy of a wildflower seed giveaway by BBC's Countryfile.
The flower head is the size of an English penny (U.S cent).
The fly which was feeding on one of the flowers (I haven't tried to identify what it is) was about the size of a grain of rice. The next three pictures (all different, not just crops of the same image) were taken, handheld, with my 100mm Macro lens. The lighting is all natural from the sun and it shows the shiny carapace and makes it possible to pick out some of the detailin the eyes.
Whether you are a fan of bugs or not I hope you will agree these are quite good pictures...
