Late summer is the right time to find dead insects at home. Here we have a hornet which just fell down from the sky in the living room. I took the chance to make a close-up photo of this majestetic flying insect.
Photos were taken with the Pentax K1 II and the Pentax DFA 100mm F2.8 Macro.
European wood ants are not easy to photograph as they are fast and always busy doing stuff for their colony. I tried to make good photos of these beautiful ants often, but this time I literally focused on them very patiently using a full frame camera and a 180mm macro lens. 
Photo taken with the Pentax K1 II and the Sigma 180mm F3.5 EX DG APO Macro.
Female Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis) in Berlin.
Photographed with the Pentax K1 II and the Pentax 100 mm F2.8 Macro lens.
Tulips bloom only briefly a year. These tulips and their cheering spring colors were photographed in a garden with the Pentax K1 II and the Pentax DFA 24-70mm F2.8 and the Sigma 180mm F3.5 Macro.
I actually found this moth dead on the bookshelf. So the moth was a patient model for my macro experiments with flash.