Your opinion? Mosquito on Black Eyed Susan

[Tina Boes]

These are so hard to get completely focused in this Michigan wind. There is something about these flowers that the Mosquitos seem to just love eating something from them. I looked at one with a jewelers loop one day and inside the jungle of stamens around the edges are the tiniest little inchworms that you can imagine. Not sure if that's what the skeeters are loving or not.
The second photo was a play with a free trial for Luminar AI. I played with the sky addition and tools to edit that. Definitely still needs some work on the fringed edges and such, but I'm going to have fun with it for sure.

Nikon D7100, ISO320, 50mm + 12mm ext. tube, tripod, f/5.0, 1/125 sec.

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[Greg Shchepanek]

The Butterfly looks like an American Copper, definitely a Copper

 

[Tina Boes]

The Butterfly looks like an American Copper, definitely a Copper

Yep.....American Copper Lycaena phlaeas. I just could not get a decent still of it, so windy as usual and my shadow kept him on the move. LOL

 

[Helix_2648]

Lovely shots! Unfortunately the focus of the second photo is somewhere behind the eyes. That's a pity because it's such a wonderful butterfly!

 

[Yohanna_D]

The fly is well executed, the butterfly however is so out of focus

 

[Tina Boes]

Yep, that butterfly is out of focus. I knew that. LOL The pic was just to show what playing around with the sky filter did for the background.