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[–] Mbourgon 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Using Memmy, I see no pic. Am I doing something wrong?

[–] TommySoda 8 points 2 years ago

Same. I've tried three different ways of using Lemmy and can't see anything

[–] WhippetBowie 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I posted the pic and can't see it anymore 😕

[–] samus12345 1 points 2 years ago

Firefox browser, no photo. Any chance you could make a link to it in a reply? I wanna see it!

[–] pendingdeletion 4 points 2 years ago

I’m using wefwef and also cannot see the photo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its working now. Im pretty sure this is because lemmy.world was breeched and they were cleaning up the instance at the time you saw the post.

[–] bleepbloopbleep 2 points 2 years ago

Can't see it either. I'm on Connect

[–] spader312 5 points 2 years ago

It's a fuzzy boi

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Whats a great shot! Well done

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nice shot! I’m at a lavender farm today and tried to get a shot like this but couldn’t pull it off lol

[–] WhippetBowie 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Often when I'm out with Bowie (the dog) I try to get a shot of insects, I've had a lot of time to tweak camera settings and experiment. But when it comes to catching focus I usually just leave it to the auto focus gods and hope for the best, I think l deleted 100 shots to get this one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I probably have a success rate close to 1000 - 1 for shots like this. The methodology is ‘spray and pray’ imo. Fortunately all digital photos cost is disk space

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a bit surprised. They love buzzing around our lavender. They also love the mint and California poppies that we have. I have seen a couple take naps in the California poppies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah the lavender field was flooded with honey and bumble bees. So many lol but they were very active and didn’t sit long. Plus I was just using an iPhone lol

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] WhippetBowie 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm just shooting with a 18-50mm zoom lens!

I've been tempted to get a proper macro, but then I'd need to build a Flash diffuser out of a Pringles can 😂

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 1 points 2 years ago

You can wing it with magnifying lenses that screw on too. They're not the best but you can get some cool results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lovely shot! I really like the colour composition, the colour scheme also kind of reminds me of old film

[–] WhippetBowie 3 points 2 years ago

I've been posting a photo a day to Instagram for years. It's an unhealthy habit, but it's led me to be a little adventurous with color. Anyway glad it worked out this time.