{"id":113690,"date":"2023-06-07T02:20:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=113690"},"modified":"2023-06-05T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:14:25","slug":"blooming-coreopsis-and-a-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/06\/07\/blooming-coreopsis-and-a-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooming Coreopsis And A Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s coreopsis photo didn&#8217;t bug me because it had a fly on one of the flowers. In fact the fly didn\u2019t bother me at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-113680 size-full\" title=\"Coreopsis and a fly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213.jpg\" alt=\"Coreopsis and a fly\" width=\"2183\" height=\"1539\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272183%27%20height%3D%271539%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202183%201539%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272183%27%20height%3D%271539%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213-200x141.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213-250x176.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213-400x282.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213-600x423.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213-800x564.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213-1200x846.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213.jpg 2183w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 2183px) 100vw, 2183px\" \/>Coreopsis and a fly &#8211; Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 photo<\/p>\n<p>I was practicing taking photos of garden flowers with my tablet and I was grateful to find the fly. That meant I had more than one subject and I was happy for that. I haven&#8217;t seen coreopsis blooming in quite a while and I was delighted to have these flowers in my viewfinder.<\/p>\n<p>I used to grow coreopsis in my garden in Georgia so it was lovely to photograph them.<\/p>\n<p>It was awesome to also photograph the fly which I believe is a green bottle fly, but I could be wrong. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day, and don&#8217;t let the little things bug ya.<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s coreopsis photo didn&#8217;t bug me because it had a fly on one of the flowers. In fact the fly didn\u2019t bother me at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5344],"tags":[6098,6557,6663,4943,13165,13939,6618,9853,5779,13931,1799,6009],"class_list":["post-113690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trees-shrubs-and-flowers","tag-blooming","tag-blooms","tag-blossom","tag-bug","tag-common-green-bottle-fly","tag-coreopsis","tag-flies","tag-flower","tag-fly","tag-garden","tag-insects","tag-yellow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230605_104213.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-tzI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53198,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/07\/23\/blooming-common-mullein-in-the-wasatch-mountains\/","url_meta":{"origin":113690,"position":0},"title":"Blooming Common Mullein In The Wasatch Mountains","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"July 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"As a child I remember plucking the leaves of Common Mullein just to touch them because the leaves were as soft as well worn flannel, their yellow flowers didn't interest me much but the soft leaves sure did.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Common Mullein&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Common Mullein","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/trees-shrubs-and-flowers\/wildflowers\/common-mullein\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Blooming Common Mullein, Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/common-mullein-blooming-mia-mcpherson-2354.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/common-mullein-blooming-mia-mcpherson-2354.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/common-mullein-blooming-mia-mcpherson-2354.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":94643,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/09\/09\/other-things-with-wings-broad-headed-marsh-fly-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":113690,"position":1},"title":"Other Things With Wings &#8211; Broad-headed Marsh Fly Photos","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"September 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"These Broad-headed Marsh Fly photos are twofers. 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