Hello dear #Hive photography lovers, I have a lot of insects in my recent RAW files, as the rainy season has lasted much longer than usual and that encourages the presence of insects in the rural areas around the town... So these are my pictures to share with you today!

^{📷 01 -> 100 mm | 1/640s | f/7.1| ISO 1000}

^{📷 02 ->100 mm | 1/1250s | f/7.1| ISO 1000}

^{📷 03 ->100 mm | 1/3200s | f/5| ISO 1000}

The first three photos are on a beautiful specimen of the "Juliet" butterfly (Eueides aliphera) found on the banks of a small stream to the west of the village. It is a lovely but relatively scarce species, so finding such a nice specimen and being able to take close-up photos of it was very fortunate for me.

^{📷 04 ->100 mm | 1/1000s | f/7.1| ISO 800}

^{📷 05 ->100 mm | 1/800s | f/7.1| ISO 800}

^{📷 06 ->100 mm | 1/800s | f/9 | ISO 1000}

The second trio of photographs corresponds to a female specimen of the damselfly genus Heaterina. In this genus of odonate insects, females usually have bright green colouration on their thorax.

^{📷 07 ->100 mm | 1/800s | f/9 | ISO 1000}

A few meters away from the green damselfly, I found this beautiful male specimen (look at the rear end of the insect, where you can see the physical differences by gender). When I saw this specimen, it seemed to me to belong to the species Hetaerina caja which is very common here in our region. So the female specimen in photos 04, 05 and 06 must surely also belong to this species. Below I am posting more pictures of other male specimens found that day.

^{📷 08 ->100 mm | 1/640s | f/9 | ISO 1000}

^{📷 09 ->100 mm | 1/250s | f/7.1 | ISO 800}

ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL NOTE: Photographs captured with my Nikon D7000 DSLR camera in RAW format, then processed in Adobe Camera RAW for adjustments regarding light, sharpening, contrast and depth... The pictures are then exported to JPG format on which minor modifications such as straightening and adding watermarks were carried out using PhotoScape 3.6.3. and/or Photoshop