Visitors to the Gazebo

When you are eating outside in the Spring, you can never be sure what might come by for a visit. So far this Spring we have had the usual assortment of bees and flies find their way past the mosquito netting, and we’ve had to rescue a Chipping Sparrow that got in through an open flap and then couldn’t find its way out. To end the month of May, this mating pair of Craneflies dropped by for a visit. They cause us no harm so, once I had taken a few shots while I was balancing precariously on a couple of webbed lawn chairs, I caught the two of them and showed them their way to freedom.

Tech: The pattern in the background is a fine mesh mosquito netting and I was standing on two webbed lawn chairs to get sufficient height for the shot with my Nikon D300 and 105mmVR macro lens.

About Ron

Ron has long had an interest in photography and traveling and, in recent years, has had more time to devote to both activities. Long a Pentax user, Ron switched to Nikon gear when he went digital. The advent of the digital SLR camera, and the ease of the internet blogging process, has provided a venue for sharing his photography and travel experience at the local, national and international level. More about Ron
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