Now we’re a couple of swells………

Just a couple of quick pics today………

The first one is the the rather boringly named ‘Blue Spotted Tiger Beetle’ or Cicindela aurulenta to his mates. A boring name but this one is a real dandy. Common if not abundant but tough to get it to sit still and close to the camera. Maybe this one was still sleeping off a late night in a smoky jazz club.

Cicindela aurulenta

And a different sort of swell……….. a cicada trying to make a break for it and seemingly not doing very well:

Cicada

Neither of these was taken in good light and when you look at the full frame they lack that edge of critical sharpness. I took some shots of the cicada with the flash, set at -2 , but although they were sharp they looked so unnatural I binned them.

Now this one just about passed my sharpness test. I know I said a couple but if you don’t check my Flickr page (or FB ) you won’t see this and its probably the only one today genuinely worth keeping.

A freshly eclosed Blue Admiral, Kaniska canace

Thanks as usual for dropping by. If you didn’t I’d be doing this for an audience of one.