Walking through the garden this past weekend and admiring the new growth on the rose bushes, I noticed my first sightings of ladybugs grasping tightly around the stems.

I took a few shots and suddenly, one decided to spread her wings and fly away. I decided to try and capture them in a way that is rarely seen. It took more than a hundred shots to get this but I succeeded in capturing her wingspan and the complex structure of interrelated parts that make it possible for them to take flight.

Canon Mark III

Lens: EF 100mm f2.8 Macro USM

Focal Length: 100.0mm

Exposure: 1/200 sec f16 ISO 400

Manual focus, Spot Metering

Two 600 ex-rt flashes
Canon ST-E3-RT Speedlite Transmitter