Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!Â
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper! Â
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (24)
alphalioness
Love the title :D Nice of it to hold still so you could take a picture.
jayfar
A wonder you got this close!!
pat40
Brilliant Andrea, yes that was the only easy part of the coastal path walk in yesterday's upload
Mark-David-Rogers
Indeed a great title and an impressive shot, I was always fascinated by these as a kid because you would see them in their masses often on nettle and catnip, around the same time some people wondered why the cats were all lazing around whilst foaming from the mouth on sunny days. The Greenbottle's shine in the sun like green mirrors. Great capture
lisalisette
Nice shot :)
dakotabluemoon
I have seen some of those fly's around here they are so pretty in the sunlight great shot girl.
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
monjo71
Good shot and a perfect title.
Faemike55
FLY 1! You are cleared for take-off on Runway 2 South! Great capture Andrea
jendellas
:o) :o) excellent!!!
NightGallery
:-) Very cool catch.
goodoleboy
Wow, that is one hell of a helipad -- which looks artificial -- that the Greenbottle fly is set to take off from. A handsome bloke for its species, if I say so myself. Sterling focus in this, and a nice digifiddle job blurring the background.
sandra46
GREAT SHOT
blinkings
Helipad? Andrea are you looking through the wrong end of the binoculars again!
danapommet
Andrew made me laugh - a fantastic macro profile portrait. Do Zoom!
MrsRatbag
LOL! "Does this colour suit me?" Very well captured, Andrea!
auntietk
Looks like he's perfectly poised in the center ... a textbook takeoff! :)
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Superb, these are not easy as Jeff points out, they tend to be totally uncooperative. Nice one my dear!
ia-du-lin
really nice capture.
moochagoo
Great sense of humour :)
wysiwig
Amazing capture and detail. I imagine you caught it before it had finished it's pre-flight check.
whaleman
A very nice shot!
Celart
Very nice green on greens
Katraz
I knew those things were good for something.