My "Trichocentrum cebolleta" orchid captured with the Tokina AT-X 100 mm f/2.8 Pro D

Hello to everyone in the community, this is my first post here with you... ;-)

When the rains come I usually spend a few hours in the morning walking the gardens around my house looking for some insects. I do that with my trusty Nikon D7000 and my old Tokina AT-X 100 mm f/2.8 Pro D lens.

But, faced with the possibility of rain and the absence of relevant insects, I looked up at one of the bushes in the garden and saw this orchid in bloom, so I thought: Let's take some pictures of these cute little flowers!... ;)

^{ISO 640 || 1/1250s || F3.5}

This rugged Tokina AT-X 100 mm f/2.8 Pro D. It's not exactly an artistic lens, but when used at larger apertures, it starts to do "crazy things" with depth of field (like in this photo above, which I liked a lot).

^{ISO 640 || 1/5000s || F3.5}

And if I keep the same settings but move the lens away from the orchids then everything becomes "More normal and less pretty".... But it is still an interesting image.

^{ISO 640 || 1/1000s || F3.5}

In this photo above I got a bit closer (these silly orchids were a bit high, so I couldn't get as close as I wanted to) but then that curious bokeh comes back and those nice out-of-focus "vibrating orchids" appear all around... ;-)

^{ISO 640 || 1/1000s || F3.5 || CROP}

And finally, a cropping of the previous photo and sharpening... It's not an insect, but it must be said that this orchid looks very much like some small butterflies here!... :-) ... Then the rain came and I had to go inside my house !....

Greetings to all, I hope to be back with new posts soon, thanks for being here everyone!...

@jlinaresp

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"We make photographs to understand what our lives mean to ourselves." - Ralph Hattersley.

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^{Camera: Nikon D7000 | Lens: Tokina ATX-PRO 100mm f/2.8 d MACRO
LOCATION: Montalbán, Carabobo, Venezuela.}