I hate these bugs...but awesome pic

its interesting though to see the eyes, I think compound eyes are more like having a lenses all over focused on one point, I don't think they see like they say they do, millions of images, but rather the entire surface of the eye being covered in thousands of lenses I think, would be more like having the ability to look in all directions at once without need to move your eye.
So I think its like one image, but overly high quality and they can detect movement in any area within a wide range of the eyes, rather then an inefficient eye that has to move the entire ball on an orbital socket just to see what's going on in one area.
AAaaanyways, Yeah they creep me out too.

Hm...that fly would look better with a shoe on top of it.

lol "heeeEEeeelp meeEEee"

but look at its eye lashes, isnt it cute? lol

If it's a dead fly you can do an exposure stack. Take like 10 shots with progressive focus points then merge them and have the entire image in focus.

It was alive but I did manage to get a stack of shots i shot through like 6 before it moved at ALL, so i'm lucky.
That's how i got the full body shot I'll post that tomorrow.

schweet :)

Suddenly compound eyes. Thousands of them.

whoa. :o