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Back yard Oleander Flower - LUNCH!

Back yard Oleander Flower - LUNCH!

Life can be dramatic even in your own back yard.

Life can be dramatic even in your own back yard.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

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Aperture f/16 ISO 640 Shutter 1/100 Focal Length 100/1

location

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Mesa, Arizona, US

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upload_date

Apr, 2019

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537

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Nice capture nature can be brutle and so can life :( but great shot

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Thank you for the compliment. I took this photo last week in our back yard using a Canon 100mm Macro lens. I did not even see the bugs when I started searching for the right flower to shoot. I just got lucky, at the right place at the right time with the right lens. Kismet.

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Some times they land right as we take pictures which makes the photo even better i think

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In the right time and in the right place!

Nice work.

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