This is from my mum's garden in Ireland. A Red Admiral and a Honey bee on some Echinops.
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Not sure what these were, I saw a few at high elevation in the Inyo forest near Mono County in California. Caught them between thunder showers.
With a tiny bit of research, maybe it's a Prickly Poppy (also known as a Cowboy's Fried Egg or Thistle Poppy).
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A fork-tailed bush katydid in my garden this afternoon. The male calling sound is something like "Katy did, Katy didn't", which is where the name Katydid comes from. This is the first of two shots. This one is with my macro lens. I was experimenting with different lens.
105mm, f5.6, 1/200, iso350
Macro lens
Original subject size: 1.5in
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This is the same Fork-tailed Bush Katydid. This time I used my 400mm Telephoto lens, with a 35mm extender. I just bought a set of extenders on eBay, it's my first time to try them out.
400mm, f/5.6, 1/640, iso1000
Telephoto lens with 36mm extension tube
Original subject size: 1.5in
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