Cranefly portrait

[Ajophotog]

Portrait of a friendly resting cranefly. It's modified back wing the Haltere shows up well in the second image. It's the thing that looks like a drum stick bottom right.;)

[CT]

Stop it now... I'm gonna be selling my macro lens! ;)

[gwocni]

:agree: Hit it on the bl@@dy head.... Far too good. :lol:

Superb

[Ajophotog]

Stop it now... I'm gonna be selling my macro lens! ;)
How much :lol:
:agree: Hit it on the bl@@dy head.... Far too good. :lol:

Superb

:bonk: last ones for a while.

[TomB]

The clarity and detail in these are amazing even by your standards, especially around the mouthparts.

[torque22]

Wonder if the director of Alien had a raynox lens....would explain where he got some of his ideas from.

[Richard T]

Wonder if the director of Alien had a raynox lens....would explain where he got some of his ideas from.

lol!

:clap: great shots

[Ladybird]

PLEASE tell me it's eating something! It can not look like that, surely? :shake:

[Slapo]

Best in the last two weeks from you in my PoV.
No cropping?

[Ajophotog]

The clarity and detail in these are amazing even by your standards, especially around the mouthparts.
Thanks for your kind comment Tom :D
Wonder if the director of Alien had a raynox lens....would explain where he got some of his ideas from.
I reckon a lot of scary baddies come the the insect world.:D
lol!

:clap: great shots
Thanks for looking Richard:D
PLEASE tell me it's eating something! It can not look like that, surely? :shake:
Yes LB that's its mouth parts in full, they eat pollen.:D

[Ladybird]

EEEWWWWW!!!!!! Now I know there is a good reason for my fear of those things! :eek: :exit:

:p

[jeangenie]

I suppose, to another crane fly, this is a very cool dude (or dudess:shrug:) I agree with LB, and I wouldn't hang around to get acquainted with it. :runaway:

The detail is scary, but ... what fantastic pics. I keep going back to them and each time find more detail. Brilliant.