The peeper

[Prajwal J Ullal]

ID: Spot Swordtail(Mostly female)

Came across this beauty peeping thru the dried leaf, probably a female, several other swordtails attempted to mate with it, but eventually flew off. While it stayed kaput in this position, hardly leaving the leaf despite us trying to frame it from a close distance. This particular area in the trail seemed to have several spot swordtails flying around along wit a mating pair which was kind of a showstopper for our trail.

EXIF:
Canon 550D
Canon 100mm macro
F/9
Shutterspeed 1/160
ISO 400
Handheld, External flash fired

Location: Nagla trail

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely close-up of the head. I liked the details on the big compound eyes . Did you try a vertical composition? Nicely captured. Thanks for sharing.