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    Captured this female along a nature path in Exmouth
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    Wow! What amazing eyes! Great pic!

    The definition in your second shot is really good too!

    (Had one just like that near our little pond today..)

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    Thanks Catherine
    I didn't know they came out so early in the year

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    They do have amazing markings, second image shows them really well.
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    Thank you Rolf.
    Yes the second image is good because it is all of the fly. The first is a macro of the face and to get that you lose focus on the tail end

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    great beryl, the'eyes' have it!!

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    Thank you andy I love taking macros of these

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