Howard Faxon
For Macro Monday I have what I believe is a young deer fly on some mint flowers. It is the size of a large house fly but it looks like the markings of a deer fly developing. It was hanging around these mint flowers and kept returning so I went and got a chair. The best macros I get seem to be in full sun. I probably need that fast exposure because I never use my tripod and bugs move a lot. This image has been cropped and that’s all I did after camera. And yes, it is part of that ‘Art On The Fly’ thing I’m doing.
It’s hard to say many nice things about deer flies or horse flies …. I hope you enjoyed having a peek though. Happy Macro Monday – I hope everyone has a great week!
This is one more amazing macro shot, thanks for sharing it.
Thanks so much Dawn!
I was a little pleased that this guy wasn’t hanging out on rotten fruit or something grotesque. Mint flowers – awesome!
Nice macro shot…I tried to upvote you…
Thanks Pamela. No worries – thanks for stopping in for sure.
Flies can make incredible photo ops. This one is incredible with the mint flowers. Great job Howard.
They are a little flighty though. He really liked these flowers so I waited.
Once you do flies then bees are easier.
Great capture and amazing details!
Thanks. I have more pictures of this guy. I’ll put them up here.
There’s one here https://glen-faxon.pixels.com/featured/art-on-the-fly-series-16-glen-faxon.html
Wow, the details are even more mindblowing there!
I will be waiting for you to put this fly in a montage with Jeff Goldblum
I have already done a selfie fashioned after the older “The Fly” where I put my head on a fly with the caption, “Help me. Help me.” It kind of creeped everyone out a little. I got responses like “Ewwww!”. Good idea – time for an update …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up6g0SDMJ7A
the only good fly is a dead fly
Oh man, do I have a picture for you! It’s a send-up of Dali’s “In Voluptas Mors,” or Voluptuous Death, … a skull made entirely from dead flies. I had to collect a lot of flies …. it got really bad feedback from the audience. Maybe I can think of some spin to get it up here.
just because your piece wasn’t well received doesn’t make it a bad piece. post that puppy here!
A number of diseases and parasites can be transmitted by the various species of deer fly. These include anthrax, tularemia, equine infectious anemia, anaplasmosis, hog cholera, filiariasis (including the Loa Loa worm), and Lyme disease.
This is true. It’s why I only picture them and don’t touch.
In proportion to the fly the flowers must also be miniature. I have not seen mint flowers.
I wonder if zooming an image could be considered as macro as I am not sure if my camera has this feature
Yes, the individual flowers on the mint are very tiny. Without magnification they are not too visible. Cheers.
Did you just use the zoom feature in your camera for this shot?
Deer flies, horse flies and bee flies are nasty — they bite! But you’ve made a wonderful capture with your camera! Kudos!
I wasn’t going to expound on this too much but I really don’t like them. No one does I think. As a kid fishing in streams those horse flies were my enemy. I hated them so much.
Thanks so much – it was interesting to see what it looked like up close.
Just incredible shot!!! Fly’s eyes are so huge that remind me a helmet of the motorcyclist 🙂
Thanks so much.
An unlikely subject perhaps; but, I have close to thirty pictures of this one.
They are very annoying. Great macro. And I never wear a tripod out. I do not have the patience to wait for someone to come.
People who love the sea – we don’t need tripods. I took advantage of this fly returning to these flowers. Thanks so much!
Horse flies bite!
Great picture, the mix of insect and flower is really art on the fly!
I do not like horse flies from my childhood.
Thanks. I shot this guy from many angles.
that is interesting, the horse flies are painful!
Without the horseflies stream fishing in the intermountain west would have been so much nicer – like heavenly almost.
we used to get them in the backwoods in Indiana. wrong place, and you regretted it.