Wildlife: Wasps on a pond

[stephbg]

The problem with living things is they have this terribly inconvenient tendency to move about. I saw these wasps coming to drink at my pond, so I thought I would try and catch a shot while they were briefly still. A tricky proposition because the camera's macro mode is not kind to moving subjects, but there was plenty of light so I gave it a go.



These first few are just static poses as I was intending:



It's a shame they were all attracted to the rather grungy dead leaf.




Bonus two-shot:




But this one's my favourite, even though I thought at the time it was a writeoff:




Ain't serendipity grand?

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[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I have quite the ecosystem at Sector 7 :-)