Two weeks ago in Central France I took this shot of a frit that I thought was a Marsh Frit, but now I'm not so sure.....
Expert opinion anyone?? marsh Frit or a v. Heath Frit??
It was flying along roadside verges, together with many High Brown Frits

Interestingly enough, I was watching some similar contests last week in France, this time hornet v. very large spider (orb web). The hornet appeared to blunder into the spider web, the spider rushed up and there was a struggle, followed by legs being thrown out of the web. The hornet had killed the ...

I've used a range of macro lenses over the years, but I currently use an SP90 Tamron for butterflies and a Nikon Micro 60mm for some other purposes. I would say the Nikon is sharper when used at 0.2x to 0.5x, but less sharp at 1x. The Tamron has very high colour contrast and wonderful out-of-focus i...

If you really want to use a ring flash - there are times when they are the best solution, but don't want to pay a lot, try using an old manual unit like the Centon one (£40) in manual mode. I've tried this route successfully for butterfly eggs and ants with a Nikon D70 and Tamron SP90 macro. Eg:- ht...

Is anyone out there an ichneumon expert? I've had a number of these come into my house recently (jan) and I was wondering whether they had hatched from the parasite pupae I spotted in late summer on several parasitised Eyed hawk larvae I found on an apple tree near my front door. they are about 22mm...