Kari Price, Hidden Beauty (ENTRIES CLOSED - December theme: Your favourite shot of '25)

I took this photo in a bush creek close to my home in Sydney, Australia in late November. For me, it epitomises the joy I get from doing macro photography of insects: the challenge of capturing a tiny creature (this little black scavenger fly, no bigger than 5mm) in their natural environment and later, discovering from the downloaded photo, the detail that's only visible at scale—her magnificent metallic-coloured body and legs, the bubble of digestive juice or water carried in her mouth, and that stunning bi-coloured eye!

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