A couple of evenings ago I took the camera for a slow walk—an amble, really. Shortly before the sun dipped below the western hills, I saw this robber fly (Saropogon sp., probably S. clarkii). I didn't have the macro lens with me, but in any case I was more interested in a photograph different from the usual close-up.
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Fly doing fly version of ambling, seems to me.
Zhoen, it does look like that, but in fact it was mostly perching, with an occasional shuffle.
I keep coming back to this photo and trying to articulate my thoughts about it. I love the sharp focus on the fly while the background has the texture of rippling, muted silk. But best of all it gives us almost a perspective of scale from the fly's point of view: that's a long way to climb.
Thanks Lisa. Those are very much in line with my own thoughts about this photograph.
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