Sometimes nature just hands you a great find. In this case, a mantid fly landed on my back door. I eventually moved it - and it landed on the trim. It stayed still for me to play around with apertures and flash settings. I knew these insects existed, but had never seen one. If it stayed in the garden, I'm sure I would never have seen it.
It's a mandid fly, related to lacewings. Just an inch long.
Camera is hand-held, I didn't want to take time to get a tripod set up.
Stopped way down to f.22 for better depth-of-field (should have played with shutter time, too):
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