Sunday, September 06, 2009

In the garden

We had a couple of visitors in the garden today. Besides the usual butterflies, a hummingbird moth came to check out the flowers. Why do hummingbird moths have fluffy tails? That's just wrong, on an insect. Hummingbird moths are a little creepy.


A dragonfly also visited, and stopped to rest on the dead hardenbergia. I don't know why the hardenbergia died. It just did, quite suddenly. The dragonfly didn't seem to mind.

4 comments:

Kay said...

Still would love to know how you get such sharp and gorgeous pictures? Special camera, or???? I can't seem to get good pix with my Nikon CoolPix....hmmm

torrygirl said...

I agree with Kay, your macro photos are fantastic. What camera & lens are you using?

Badaunt said...

I'm using a DSLR - an Olympus E510 I got last year, or was it the year before? It was worth paying for a better camera, as you've noticed - it takes lovely shots. But I didn't use the macro lens for these shots, as I couldn't get close enough. I used a zoom (the lens kit zoom, nothing special), and cropped the pictures.

But my old camera (a point-and-shoot Olympus) was pretty good, too. I'm not a knowledgeable photographer, so a good camera really help. (I also edit a lot - I take dozens of pictures to get one halfway good one. In fact I'm a better editor than photographer.)

Keera Ann Fox said...

As the others have noted, these are great pictures! The moth is rather sci-fi-looking, but I rather like that in a moth. Dragonflies are always photogenic; you've captured this one at an uncommon angle.