Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Long Legged Fly

 
Original - A Chrysosoma sp. of the Dolichopodidae family, commonly known as Long Legged Flies. They make up a large family of true flies with more than 7,000 described species in about 230 genera distributed worldwide.
Reason
A very difficult picture to take IMO. This fly is very sensitive to flash and just as one takes a picture, the fly flies away, leaving the photographer with a picture of a plain leaf. In order to take this picture, I had to trick the fly. I noticed that whenever I fired the flash in quick succession, it did not fly away on the third attempt. So I manually fired the flash twice, and in less than a second had to manually focus and take the picture. To add to all that, the fly was small, only 4mm long. Compared to other images in the article, IMO this has the most EV as it shows the fly from an encyclopedic angle.
Articles this image appears in
Dolichopodidae
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Promoted Image:Long legged fly.jpg --Fir0002 10:59, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]