We have a japenese beetle prob in our backyard so a couple shots of them.

[Emenresu]

Becasue there are so many and easyish to work with i can try new set up shots of them. Here are a couple, and if anyone has a sugestion for cropping the last one im all ears. All shots were taken with around f22 iso 100 and 1/200 with an off camera flash. the 2nd one got bigger when i uploaded it for some reason...

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a313/DanCottle/Macro/IMG_2909e.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a313/DanCottle/Macro/IMG_2920e.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a313/DanCottle/Macro/IMG_5497.jpg
and yes this is in flight, i took alot of missed shots to get this one

[LordV]

Wonderful shots- well composed
Brian V.

[Livinthalife]

Awesome shots! Love the comparison with a strawberry, Really gives you sense of size or that there lack of :)

I wonder why these are called japanese beetles? I mean everyone in America calls those beetles "japanese beetles", but I have yet to see them here lol

(SORRY, I meant cherries! lol! Dont know what I was thinking! LOL)

[Emenresu]

haha thanks
I dont know about the name of the beetle either, but why does everyone in japan call cherries, strawberries?? hahh :)

[Livinthalife]

cherries are sakurambo not strawberries lol :)
strawberries are ichigo

But in Japanese there are way too many english words used improperly. lol

Just showed my wife, she loved your shots as well, though she said "it looks too real" Thats a good comment, I think :P

[Emenresu]

I dont know if you realized or not yet, but those are cherries not strawberries :)
thanks

[racketman]

those beetles are smaller than I thought then - I assumed they were like Cockchafers. Great shots, well done. What was the BG for the last one - is this clever processing?

[Athena]

I absolutely love the perspective in that second shot and the last one is just fabulous. :) Well done!

[triumph]

This is in answer to Livinthalife's query about the naming for this beetle

Quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_beetle

"As the name suggests, the Japanese beetle is native to Japan. The insect was first found in the United States in 1916 in a nursery near Riverton, New Jersey. It is thought that beetle larvae entered the United States in a shipment of iris bulbs prior to 1912 when inspections of commodities entering the country began."

Apparently natural predators keep the bug in-check in its original environment, therefore does not reach pest proportions.

Quite glad we don't get them here in the UK :)

[photobitz]

I assumed they were like Cockchafers...

while on the subject of name origins, do I want to know where that name comes from?

[Leorooster]

I absolutely love the perspective in that second shot and the last one is just fabulous. :) Well done!

I second what Ahtena said. Well done!

[bandit 1]

Hiya Emenresu,
Lovely series of shots, love the last one.
Cheers for now
Mark

[Lester Wareham]

Wonderful shots and very artfull.

[Bama]

very creative shots.
good thought out and well rendered pictures.

The exposures are very well taken.

regards
bama

[Livinthalife]

I dont know if you realized or not yet, but those are cherries not strawberries :)
thanks

Well I put a edit, but sure you may skip it :)

but yea, I'm not sure why I typed "strawberries". I know they are cherries! lol :o

[AirBrontosaurus]

I really like these. Well done!

[Emenresu]

thanks for all the complements

as for the backround, it is a plain sheet of paper, no "clever processing" was used

[beckybun]

awesome shots! :) i love the perspectives.

[Emenresu]

thanks