I shot this image at the Agricultural History Farm Park in Derwood, Maryland this summer where they have a public, trial dahlia garden. While shooting the dahlias, I found a jumping spider in a white dahlia. While I was shooting the spider, a hover fly landed on the petal above the spider. I quickly focused on the fly’s eyes and got one shot before it flew away. I focus-stacked the image with the one I took moments before that was focused on the spider’s eyes to get the final image.

This was taken from a boat that was bobbing heavily in the waters of Chincoteague, VA. The camera’s focus tracking feature worked beautifully – it doesn’t care if it or the subject is the one moving. These two birds were part of a flock of Yellow-Crowned Night herons hanging out on a tiny island. I have only seen other types of herons fishing solo.