Beetlemania

These milkweed bugs were a real surprise this morning

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Is this a composite: No
Exposure time: 1/400 s
F number: 14.0
Exposure program: Manual
ISO speed rating: 1250
Lens focal length: 100.0 mm

Great capture with really nice colors! I like the zoomed out one best. If you find it acceptable, the bug in the LLC could be erased, giving more attention to the bugs in the middle and their pleasent V shape.

Eddie, I too like the first image best, even though the second one gives better details in the one, the other bugs are cut off mid body. You really got quite a few there within the DOF range. It would have been nice if that one in the LLC were either in focus or not there, but I am okay with it. Nature doesn’t always provide the perfect setup. They are very colorful bugs.

First image works better for me than the second. The OOF bug draws the eye, but the V-shaped bug cluster is nice and sharp. I think that this is a pretty neat shot of one of our colorful bugs…Jim