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Mmmmm a nice drink of Clematis

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Posted by Alan Bryant on July 17, 2007 at 7:28 AM
Mmmmm a nice drink of Clematis
Mmmm there's nothing better than a nice drink of Clematis on a sunny day :smile: .

I'm not able to I.D the insect, as i cant see it in my Insect book.If someone could help me out, that would be great :cool: .

EDIT - The insect is a Wood Gnat or a Dance Fly

20D
EF100 2.8 macro
Tri-pod, cable release
ISO 100
1/100 @ f6.3

C & C welcome

Thank you for looking :toast:
Posted by Helge Sorensen on July 17, 2007 at 7:33 AM
Very interesting motive, with great composition and good use of DOF :toast:
Posted by John Chapman on July 17, 2007 at 8:21 AM
This is great Alan I thought it was Snow to start with. Terrific picture. :toast:
John
Aberdeen
Posted by Graeme Lee on July 17, 2007 at 8:22 AM
yeah looks great Alan :toast:
Posted by David Kjaer on July 17, 2007 at 8:59 AM
Great composition and all round image!

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by Mike Smith on July 17, 2007 at 9:12 AM
Clamatis is the flower spelling and the insect looks suspiciously like mosquito sp?

not sure if your pink Geraniums were in fact Impatians (busy lizzies) the other day as well :confused:
Posted by Alan Bryant on July 17, 2007 at 9:27 AM
lol thanks for the correct spelling(tho i found out its cle not cla :biggrin: )

The flowers in my other shot IS Geraniums.

Thanks for the comments :toast:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on July 17, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Hi Alan,
Very nice image , you've made a fantastic job of holding the detail in the white petals , as for the fly , going by the long legs and the black stripe running the length of the thorax I'd have to say that this is a Wood Gnat , hope the ID helps.

Kind regards
Andy... :smile:
Posted by Alan Bryant on July 17, 2007 at 10:06 AM
Awesome Thanks Andrew :toast:

And yes i now see it in my book(thanks to you :wink: )
Posted by Anthony House on July 17, 2007 at 11:37 AM
Very good close up work, the comp and the sharpness on the gnat are superb.

Great image.

Tony
Posted by David Taylor on July 17, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Yes very nice composition and detail. DOF just right IMHO.

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Posted by Barrie Courtenay on July 17, 2007 at 1:49 PM
Superb detail,comp Alan

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Posted by Colin Pickett on July 17, 2007 at 4:04 PM
Wonderful image Alan, I like this one alot. :toast:
Posted by Des Ong on July 17, 2007 at 6:03 PM
what an interesting shot, fantastic :toast:
Posted by Malcolm Muir on July 17, 2007 at 6:12 PM
Hi Alan - beautiful image, wonderfully clear and detailed, perfectly exposed and love the composition. hate to disagree with earlier IDs but I suspect that this beastie is actually one of the dance flies, possibly Empis trigramma. When they are not resting photogenically on clematis flowers they are skewering smaller insects on that imposing looking proboscis.

Regards

Malcolm :toast: :toast:
Posted by Mark Sisson on July 18, 2007 at 7:07 AM
All been sad really - good work indeed.

Mark
Posted by Paula Graham on July 18, 2007 at 4:57 PM
Artistic shot!