stacked portrait of a blue bottle fly (photo)

[Ecooper]

Hi all,

The photo below is a portrait of a blue bottle fly that is one of the pictures that went up on my blog yesterday. These are a common type of blow fly that has the delightful scientific name of Calliphora vomitoria. Considering that these flies feed on carrion, their scientific name seems rather appropriate...

Cheers

EC

www.macrocritters.wordpress.com

flesh fly Calliphora vomitoria edited sharpened_filtered cropped copyright Ernie Cooper 2012 sm for post by ernie.cooper, on Flickr

 

[frogparty]

awesome pic!!!

 

[SilentDeviL]

Wow Cool Pic.

 

[hibiscusmile]

wordy!

 

[sueb4653]

wow is all I cant think of to say WOW

 

[stacy]

niice picture! :batman:

 

[Ecooper]

Thank you all very much!

EC

www.macrocritters.wordpress.com

 

[OctoberRainne]

Awesome fly portrait,are you shooting with the MPE 65 or another set up?

 

[angelofdeathzz]

Great, now I'm hungry for fried chicken with the feathers still on?! Nice pic!

 

[Ecooper]

Awesome fly portrait,are you shooting with the MPE 65 or another set up?

Nope...I shoot with Olympus equipment. The photos used in this stack were shot with an olympus e-620 body adapted to a 20+ year old Olympus OM bellows and Zuiko 50mm F1.8 lens (reversed). I actually could have gone even closer.

Cheers.

EC

www.macrocritters.wordpress.com

 

[Ecooper]

Great, now I'm hungry for fried chicken with the feathers still on?! Nice pic!

LOL! Thanks!

EC

www.macrocritters.wordpress.com

 

[OctoberRainne]

Nice thanxx for the info

 

[Ecooper]

Nice thanxx for the info

No worries! I'm just starting to experiment with adapting microscope lenses to the bellows and camera. I should (eventually) be able to get closer and with better resolution. But lighting is going to be a challenge...

EC

www.macrocritters.wordpress.com

 

[Precarious]

Nice shot! I've been meaning to get into this end of the macro game. Just hard for me to get excited about working with dead bugs. Plus I need a focus rail and better tripod.

 

[mantid_mike]

Great shot and lots of detail. Like the background color as well. Looks like a tiffany blue.

 

[ismart]

What a hairy sucka!

 

[fleurdejoo]

Wow!

That is amazing.

 

[alan2296]

pure awesomeness XD

 

[Peter Clausen]

Seriously, how does nature come up with this stuff?