never work with children, animals or insects

There are certain principles I like to follow when capturing my macro images, mainly in the hope of relaying some sort of story within them.

One such "rule" I set myself is to have the subject insect either looking into the frame or, if looking out, with enough space to move into, creating that question or story in the viewer's mind.

I loved this image of a hover or maybe sawfly below:

Fujifilm X-H2, TTArtisans 100mm f2.8 2x macro lens
1/640th of a second at f2.8, ISO 125
handheld

The issue was though that I wanted the fly and the opening flower bud in the same frame.  And, therefore, to look its very best the fly needed to be facing the other way.  Now, I pleaded and begged and even offered it a sum of cash but do you think it would turn around?

Oh no!  It did raise its wings in a wonderful display, but at the precise second that I had lowered my camera from my eye (obviously!) but it remained steadfastly facing east.  The little shi...

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Click on the video below to watch a montage of my favourite Mumbles Lighthouse images from way back in my seascape shooting days: