Silly Saturday - Happy Hoverfly

The sun came out yesterday afternoon and again this morning for most of today. It was very spring like with the birds singing, bees flying, ladybirds scuttling around.
I noticed this drone fly, a type of hoverfly, on the osteopernaums, and thought it looked like it was waving it's hands in the air and saying "Yay it's the weekend and it's sunny!" Perfect for admirer's Silly Saturday :-)

The camera seems fine and maybe even a bit better, probably because it's had a good clean. It's lovely to have it back and a relief that it doesn't need to be replaced. :-)

A message from Skeena about Mono Monday.

"Next week’s Mono Monday theme is ‘DEPTH OF FIELD’, tag MM164.

Now here’s the thing, all images have a depth of field (DOF), some very shallow like my example and others very wide were the image is sharpe from foreground to infinity. One thing I ask you try is do one you don’t normally do. This may involve coming off auto for some… 

I tend to have a shallow DOF because I have bad camera shake. Using a larger aperture will increase the speed you can take the image. The distance away from the subject will also effect the DOF. Nearer and shallower it gets. I was about 3” away from these pencils. There has been no fiddling with this image, it’s what my camera phone will do.

If you want to read some technical things about DOF try this. There’s plenty more to be found on the web thingy."