I had a little bit of time out in the lovely sunny garden with my camera yesterday afternoon, but I am so busy at the moment as we are cooking a St George's day dinner for 94 people from our village tomorrow evening.
Lovely shot Jan. I've only seen one ladybird so far this year and she was in the garden centre I visited today. I wanted to take her home, there are lots of green fly on my roses for her to eat. Good luck with this years massive dinner. What's on the menu?
Great capture -- it's still too early here for insect sightings. Except, of course, for the hideous stink bug who honors us with its presence all year round -- inside in the winter, outside in the summer.
@judithg No Judith, I do often use a tripod, but didn't have time to faff about this time so it's handheld. I have started relying more on ISO to give a fast enough shutter speed - ISO800 in this case.
As for the dinner. There are about 300 in the village - probably about a third of those are children, so 94 is a pretty good turn-out. I vowed that I wouldn't do it again this year as I don't seem to handle the stress as well as I used to, but somehow seem to have become embroiled again. Doesn't seem like such a good idea this morning!
@suebarni smoked mackerel and/or chicken liver pate, sausage and mash with onion gravy and trifle, with of course the usual variations for vegetarians, diabetics, coeliacs and non-pork eaters.........
@jantan well I'm even more stunned by your photo then. Half wishing I'd splashed out on a proper macro as I'm enjoying more that I thought! Also - it's all those sub variations that are bad enough for a small party that make everything hard work but I know increasing numbers of coeliacs so I like to make an effort for them - terrifying if you get it wrong though!
@jantan The detail that you can get with a proper macro is so much better than 'pretend' ones. My Sigma 18-250 classes itself as 'Macro' but the image quality isn't a patch on the real thing. Get saving!
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As for the dinner. There are about 300 in the village - probably about a third of those are children, so 94 is a pretty good turn-out. I vowed that I wouldn't do it again this year as I don't seem to handle the stress as well as I used to, but somehow seem to have become embroiled again. Doesn't seem like such a good idea this morning!