🐝 I Need Wings 🦋 The Tiny Fliers Of Paramaribo, Suriname 🦟 by justinparke

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🐝 I Need Wings 🦋 The Tiny Fliers Of Paramaribo, Suriname 🦟
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The whole family has been a bit down in spirits lately. We miss Cambodia and long to return, but it's just not possible.

To distract myself, I've been trying to learn how to use the features and settings of my Canon SX530 HS. 

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<center><h2>**🦋 I NEED WINGS 🦟**</h2></center>

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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The only realistic way back to Cambodia is by air, but we can't afford to fly and I (*not a Cambodian citizen*) can't get a visa anymore, as Cambodia has banned all tourist visas and visas on arrival.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Before COVID-19, the way to live in Cambodia easily was to get a one month tourist visa on arrival, then convert it to a one year residency visa via a private travel agency.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This situation adds to our "**stranded-ness**," and we just don't know when we'll ever be allowed (*by higher powers*) to help ourselves.

<h4>**Any Size Will Do**</h4>

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|<sup>**Camera** - Canon SX530 HS<br>**ISO** - 100<br>**Aperture** - f/5<br>**Shutter Speed** - 1/20 sec.</sup>|

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I try to spend an hour each day improving my photography skills, and this new mood has caused to pay a little more attention to insects of the winged variety, from the small to the large.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;After mentioning how much more attention I've been giving the winged variety lately, I present with a half-dead mosquito, perhaps one of the few winged creatures I don't envy at all. 

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;**@Sreypov** stunned it, so I took the opportunity to practice some photography with it.

<h4>**Off To The Garden**</h4>

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|**Camera** - Canon SX530 HS <br>**ISO** - 100<br>**Aperture** - f/5<br>**Shutter Speed** - 1/80 sec.|

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;There are always winged creatures in the landlord's garden, and I thought I was going to get shots of birds, but none were to be found.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Instead the tiniest of flyers were the only things to be found, much more difficult to photograph. I noticed a bottle fly dancing around a steady location and thought I would slowly move in to see how close I could get.

<h4>**Let It Happen**</h4>

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|**Camera** - Canon SX530 HS <br>**ISO** - 100<br>**Aperture** - f/5.6<br>**Shutter Speed** - 1/160 sec.|

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I tried a tactic of holding the camera in a fixed location the fly kept returning to, and it seemed to work a bit. The few seconds the fly would land near me provided me just enough time to get focus and snap a pic.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This little green survivor started to grow on me, and I snapped several shots of it while tinkering with various settings. I've uploaded the three best to share with you all.

<h4>**Let's See The Colors**</h4>

|<center>[![6.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/justinparke/3qprkgHu-6.JPG)](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/justinparke/3qprkgHu-6.JPG)</center>|
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|**Camera** - Canon SX530 HS <br>**ISO** - 100<br>**Aperture** - f/5.6<br>**Shutter Speed** - 1/160 sec.|

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;One thing I have been working on is using aperture settings to blur the background while keeping the subject in clear focus, but these style of shots weren't  showing the beautiful array of colors on its back.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I hovered above for a bit to catch all the shades of green and blue, and had a little more success.

<h4>**To The Flowers**</h4>

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|**Camera** - Canon SX530 HS <br>**ISO** - 100<br>**Aperture** - f/5<br>**Shutter Speed** - 1/160 sec.|

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;One of our landlord's passions is growing flowers, and the areas where the flowers are concentrated always provide some winged insect life.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I instantly discovered a black bumblebee (*Bombus Morio*) hard at work, and wasted several shots trying to catch this busy body being still for a split second.

<h4>**The King Arrives**</h4>

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|**Camera** - Canon SX530 HS <br>**ISO** - 200<br>**Aperture** - f/5<br>**Shutter Speed** - 1/60 sec.|

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Just about to finish up my hour of photography, a huge butterfly landed next to my head, and I only managed one lucky shot before it disappeared.

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;There are way too many butterflies to name, and I'm still learning about Suriname, so I have no idea what species this might be.

<center><sup>**ALL PHOTOS IN THIS POST ARE UNEDITED, ONLY CROPPED**</sup></center>

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<center><h4>**🙏 THANKS FOR READING 🙏**</h4></center><center></h5>**If you enjoyed this post, please upvote and reblog.**</h5></center>

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