Hoverfly Mile High Club

For all those voyeurs out there. These two Hovers have just joined the Mile High club, or a maybe these shots are for the HF Kama Sutra - feet in the face like that can't be comfortable. Numbers 1 and 3 are slight crops.

They are supposed to be Hoverflies, not move about wildly flies. As close as I was they kept dancing all over the frame.

Canon 180mm+ 56mm tubes 1/250 s at F 11.00 with ISO 400 + MR-24 Twin Lite with AF and AI Servo

No.1

brilliant series

How the heck did you get these guys in action. WOW..

Excellent HHSWF shots Greg Amazed one hoverfly has enough power to lift both of them.
Brian V.

spidermanrbryce2006 wrote in post #6924216
brilliant series

Thanks Bryce

gjl711 wrote in post #6924222
How the heck did you get these guys in action. WOW..

Thanks, mostly luck to spot them and then not have them move away. Although they danced all over the view finder they stayed in about the same general place.

LordV wrote in post #6924354
Excellent HHSWF shots Greg Amazed one hoverfly has enough power to lift both of them.
Brian V.

Thanks Brian. Yeah, I noticed that also. The wings of the second have been pinned back.

gjl711 wrote in post #6924222
How the heck did you get these guys in action. WOW..

Right place, right time, lots of patience, lots of skill and co-operative hoverflies.

Greg - lovely shots, I fully understand how hard this type of shot is to get, having done it on 2 separate occasions myself (more luck than skill on my part in all honesty). I do miss the old place in Hornsby in Sydney, cos I knew where the hoverflies were, on a regular basis, and I could count on seeing this frequently enough if I kept a good eye out. I also miss the jumpers, there's very few up here in our gardens. I think I knew all the jumpers by first name in Sydney...

Dave

Lucky you got these posted up Greg before Krudds net sensoring is operational
Cool shots

well done, I know from experience how they dance out of view just as you achieve focus.

Wonderfull series, congrats,

Ciao,
Laurent.

dpastern wrote in post #6925383
Right place, right time, lots of patience, lots of skill and co-operative hoverflies.

Greg - lovely shots, I fully understand how hard this type of shot is to get, having done it on 2 separate occasions myself (more luck than skill on my part in all honesty). I do miss the old place in Hornsby in Sydney, cos I knew where the hoverflies were, on a regular basis, and I could count on seeing this frequently enough if I kept a good eye out. I also miss the jumpers, there's very few up here in our gardens. I think I knew all the jumpers by first name in Sydney...

Dave

Thanks Dave.

Desertraptor wrote in post #6925403
Lucky you got these posted up Greg before Krudds net sensoring is operational
Cool shots

Thanks Peter

racketman wrote in post #6925549
well done, I know from experience how they dance out of view just as you achieve focus.

Thanks Toby

devil350 wrote in post #6926259
Wonderfull series, congrats,

Ciao,
Laurent.

Thanks Laurent