Remembering PRESTAGS

dinner

usual big wok of stir fried vegetables with some honey and peanut butter. plus stir fried chicken from previous night - garlic, ginger, little chilli, pepper & soy sauce.

Very unconventional carbohydrate though - boiled potato.

Hoverfly

pseudo macro of hoverflies outside the backdoor. 8-10mm long. (70-300 AF-P lens but cropped a fair bit)

my one good 'hovering' shot - they wouldn't stay in stationary hover! (both crops)

 

 

opportunistic macro

I was playing around trying to shoot flowers near the backdoor. On closer inspection I saw there was a tiny fly feeding from one of the flowers ...

as shot (about as magnified as I could get). The flowers are probably about/< 1cm diameter.

successive crops - can you see the droplet of liquid at the head of the fly?

 

Last night while cooking, I noticed this fly on the cupboard (not a housefly or blowfly - also flower feeders I think). cropped image.

I saw my first jumping spider of the Spring this morning too but there was no time for photos ...

Light rain, jewels on plum flowers

Inspired by Paul

yummy but bloating ...

Puti, Eat your heart out!

VIEWER WARNING: The great censor should close his eyes now!

Puti needed photoshop to look this good. I look good because I love rubbing my deck! The Chump need not apply.

Existential Question #1: Is there a Dog? My previous dog (Pipster) did get stick on the deck a couple of oils ago. I take no chances this time around. As Julius Caesar, Pontifex Maximus, would say, "A Dog that is not restrained and controlled, is not worth having!"

 

Fly sunning itself in the late afternoon

I've seen these big flies doing this in the early morning and late afternoon - presumably warming themselves up.

This was the first macro shot using the little manfrotto tripod that was in a camera bag I bought - really helps with bracing against the brick wall. I hope it will help shots when the jumping spiders emerge too. a little sharpening and exposure adjustment.

big crop

lesser crop

view as shot (it was more or less upside down)

have to post obviously - the moon

hand held last night from my front porch, seeing how the Nikon AF-P 70-300 DX goes vs the Tamron 70-200 f2.8. sharpened a little and contrast adjust a little in View NXi

70-300 AF-P

Tamron 70-200. although shorter, the Tamron image holds up well even with the additional cropping. (it is a big piece of glass)

Existential this!

 

What will the Singularity really be like? I think the AI will just force us to play games like ATG forever, to keep us from distracting them.

Dog, death and life

Trying not to lean too far forward

Hard to get without scale, but about 10m down from a crumbling edge.