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Giant Silk Moth (Antheraea polyphemus)

We are so lucky to be surrounded by so much beauty. This beautiful Moth is so fuzzy ( Zoom in to see) She is so delicate and colorful 🫶🏼🤍🫶🏼
The shrooms are pretty cool as well. I hope you enjoy 🦋😉 🫶🏼🍄‍🟫🍄

Katydid hanging out on my deck this morning. OM1 with PL 100-400

I'm participating in a weekly photo challenge and thought you all would enjoy my entry for this week--a close up of the damselfly mentioned in my earlier post.

A fun fact I learned is that damselflies have compact eyes that give them a 360° field of view, but when the lens plates shift around, the ones that are pointing directly at whatever they're looking at appear darker like a pupil. Look close, and you can see our little friend was looking at me just as intently as I was looking at him!

Never going to sleep now

I felt so lucky this morning, by pure chance, being able to catch the magnificent hummingbird hawk-moth, which is only an occasional visitor here in southern Sweden ❤️.

All shots are handheld with Canon R7, EF 100mm f2.8L macro IS USM @ f5.6 ISO 800.

Red-banded leafhopper resting on a hollyhock leaf in the garden. Only ~6mm long, or the size of an uncooked grain of rice. 3 image stack shot with a Laowa 100mm macro at about 2:1 magnification. A tiny beauty!

Saw these two lovers while i was working and rushed to capture them without paying attention to my camera settings. I shot it at
18mm
iso 100
f4
ss 1/100.

If I had a second chance I would’ve shot it at f8 and 1/000

I find their empty shells around all the time but seeing this cicada actively molting was a first for me. Its colors were so vibrant.

Camera body📷: Olympus OM-D EM-5
Camera lens: 60mm f/2.8 macro

New to this! Any tips on getting the face more into focus? My camera does not have automatic photo stacking capabilities.

found these two Luna moths reproducing the other day

Found in a forest in Upper Austria.