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Nov 02, 2015 04:39 | #1

The long legged fly is extremely skittish and very difficult to capture, esp with a MPE65.
The one taunted me - sat still at the edge of leaf, flew off as I got close, and then summarily returned to the same spot.

Eventually he got used to me to enable me to capture a few. This is the best.

Canon EOS 6D • Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro Photo @65mm • 1/160 • f/13 • ISO 160

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Nov 02, 2015 06:22 | #2

Very nice capture Paul

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Nov 03, 2015 00:53 | #3

Wonderful doli shot Paul

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Nov 03, 2015 03:33 | #4

cool shot!

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