there's beauty in the beast

Flies, wasps, bees, gnats, midges.  Call them what you will they're mostly regarded as pests. But look at any of them close up and they're actually beautiful little marvels of natural, genetic engineering; evolved to a point that they are perfectly adapted to do what they need to do - annoy us!!

No, really, I think they are beautiful in their own way, and here are two images - one of a sawfly and the other a bottle-green housefly - to hopefully convince you of their status too.

 

both images: Fujifilm X-H2, Laowa 65mm f2.8 ultra-macro lens
1/250th of a second at f2.8, ISO 125
handheld

I've curated some macro images from my garden taken over the past few weeks and put them to some really rather lovely music, and you can gaze in awe (or something like that) just by clicking below…