A Bug's Life

There are plenty of bugs invading our balcony on a pretty consistent basis. Using my coloured paper as apparatus. I captured this dainty specimen on my orchid plant:

This is a bug's life - they fly around, eat, mate, and get photographed by me!

For more pictures of a beautiful dragonfly I captured right after this fly, hop over to my 

Nature Blog

where a full documentary is explored.

Flies getting down and dirty!!

Spotted these two on the branch of my orchid plant, getting down to business! In fact, this particular plant seems to be quite the love-spot for these flies - I've spotted such incidents on numerous occasions.

At first my Panasonic Lumix DMC-F2 had real problems focusing on the flies. It persisted on focusing on the background. The only clear picture I could get was too far away from the flies to see them!

So I grabbed a piece of white paper and with one hand held it behind the flies whilst I focused the camera in the other hand  -and hey hey, it locked on to them beautifully! This is a decent little tip if you're having focus problems with small objects. Neutralize the background with a piece of white paper!