Photo of the Month 7/'11

So Cool

This is a repost. Posted some days back in Photo Art as I was not sure it was allowed in the macro department with all the postprocessing involved. At that time I called it "dead as a doornail" as this is how I found it. Maybe that is not so cool and is definitely not my common practise. I prefer insects in action. But in Microphotography it is of course common practise and I undestand why they are so fond of focus stacking.

I did a new stack with the same 16 images in Zerene in stead of CS5.
Further I adjusted the colors more to my liking and did a full retouch of the image.
Just to increase the "Coolness" of this beautiful Horse-fly.

Herb