Three days out of four with more than one photo posted. Don’t you feel privileged? Okay, perhaps not. In any case, here is a third picture for today. In addition to going out for a late lunch of raspberries and photographing a tiny fly, I went into the back yard when I got home and photographed bumble bees. They are going crazy on the gooseneck loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides) and the purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea). I’m pretty happy with this picture, although I think a smaller aperture would be better. The depth of field is just short of what I would like. This was taken with the ISO set to 800 with an exposure of 1/125 sec. at f/5.7.
Daily Archives: July 5, 2013
Bumble Bee on Coneflower
Genus Condylostylus
While I was out picking raspberries I saw a spider web with an orchard orbweaver spider (Leucauge venusta). I took a few pictures but it was too dim and I didn’t have my tripod so I wasn’t able to get enough depth of field to make the image worth sharing. I also saw this little fellow (or lady, I really don’t know). The leaf it was on was moving in the slight breeze and of course there’s that “hand-held” thing, so most of the pictures were out of focus or blurred. This one, I think, is pretty good. Fortunately it was in a small ray of sunshine giving me enough light for a reasonably short exposure. It is one of the flies in the genus Condylostylus but many of them look quite similar, so I don’t know which one.
Wild Raspberries
I found a great patch of wild raspberries today and enjoyed about a pint of them before moving on. It’s all I had for lunch today, but it was a pretty sweet lunch. I think I’ll come back with a container and collect more in the next couple of days.
You’ll forgive me if I don’t mention where this patch happens to be located. There are a lot of berries but not enough, I’m sorry to say, to share with too many others. I’ll be watching to see if I’m followed.