A few more from yesterday's Barnack Hills & Holes trip

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A few more from yesterday evening's trip to Barnack Hills & Holes nature reserve near Stamford, Lincs. UK but actually on the Cambridgeshire border. … it's a former limestone quarry and hundreds of years ago provided the Barnack limestone to build Peterborough Cathedral. 

 

Several large file size pics so will post individually and add titles when all posted

 

 

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Scabious/Cornflower backlit by evening Sun 

 

 

Sony A7SII / Leica APO Macro Elmarit R 100/2.8 with Elpro attachment … handheld ISO 3200 f22

 

 

 

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Edited July 26, 2017 by dkCambridgeshire

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Five Spot Burnet Moth Zyganae trifolii 

 

 

Sony A7SII / Leica APO Macro Elmarit R 100/2.8 … handheld ISO 3200 f22

 

 

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Brown Argos butterfly Arecia agestis

 

 

Sony A7SII / Leica APO Macro Elmarit R 100/2.8 … handheld late evening in fading light and against the sky … ISO 5000 f22

 

 

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Honey bee 

 

Sony A7SII / Leica APO Macro Elmarit R 100/2.8 with Elpro attachment … handheld ISO 3200 f22

 

 

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One member of our party was Dr Stuart Ball a professional entomologist and co-author of British Hoverflies - A Field Guide. Stuart was very busy photographing these tiny fruit flies Tephritis bandanae  … which I was unfamiliar with until Stuart explained the larvae fed on the burdoch plant ... judging by the numbers there was a recent hatch. Very difficult to photograph because they seldom stay still for more than a few seconds - thus impossible to stack. 

 

Sony A7SII / Leica APO Macro Elmarit R 100/2.8 with Elpro attachment … handheld ISO 3200 f22

 

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Crop of above 

 

 

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Another tiny fruit fly Tephritis bandanas study 

 

 

Sony A7SII / Leica APO Macro Elmarit R 100/2.8 with Elpro attachment … handheld ISO 3200 f22

 

 

This was the first time in many years I've tried close-up photography 'in the field' . The Leica APO Macro Elmarit 100mm R lens couples well with the Sony A7SII and makes working at high ISO (e.g. ISO 5000) feasible and practical.

 

 

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Edited July 26, 2017 by dkCambridgeshire

[euston]

That was a really productive trip. First rate nature photography. Most enjoyable!

[stuny]

An excellent set.

[Tom Barry]

Absolutely first-rate results, plus an interesting narrative. Doesn't get much better than this.