Excellent, Rudi. Nice detail, some color, and clean BG. What's not to like? Maybe a slight crop or bit of cloning to eliminate the dark corner at upper right. That's the only nit I can offer in the way of suggestions. Nicely done.
Nicely captured.
That's one of the best I have seen.
John
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Very nicely captured I'd be more than pleased with that one.
Superb composition....
Very nice shot, but would definitely crop out the top right corner.
Nice composition and colors
Good detail in the eye and I like the level at which you have taken the shot. I try this too.
There is greenish tint to the halteres and the tibia seem rather slender, Rudi. So I would suspect this is a Melanstoma species male.
Some over exposure on the flower but this is often impossible to avoid. I've just spent too long touching in a similar problem and I think I probably wasted my time as the insect wasn't perfect anyway. But slightly uncommon, so I wanted some form of record.
Thanks all for comments and suggestions. Really appreciated.
A Melanstoma sp was also my estimated guess.
White flowers and bugs is asking for problems I guess, but a lot off white in the garden those days, not possible to ignore (for me at least). Keeper rate is even smaller than usual (so nearly nothing...). But its a good excercise.