I took this macro photo at my backyard. This hoverfly was just sitting on a flower of a summer-flowering plant. I don't know the name of the plant, it always dies to the ground in autumn and comes back up in spring. It is, however, a summer flowering plant on which the fly was sitting. In this photo you can see the hairs of the hoverfly, the facets of the eyes are just missing. I used an 85mm macro lens for this photo and also took it out of hand.
Welcome to my shop. My name is Gerard de Zwaan and I was born in 1983 in the Veluwe town of Harderwijk where I grew up and still live. I started photography in 2013. My first camera was a Nikon D3200 which I still own and is now as a.. Read more…