Hot Fruit Fly Sex and other Macro Shots

November 13, 2007

While looking for butterflies in a private garden in U.P. Diliman, I chanced upon this pair of fruit flies busily procreating. Fruit flies (well, flies in general) are an ideal subject in macro photography for they keep still and seem not to mind if the photographer invades their space and in this case, their privacy.



Butterflies, bees and dragonflies are not as cooperative and accommodating as fruit flies. I have to keep a certain distance when photographing these creatures. But capturing them in action is just as rewarding.


Then, the easiest of macro subjects: flowers (so long as the wind isn't blowing hard)