Paper wasp (Polistes dominula) floating on the garden pond while drinking. Its legs push down on the water surface enough to form a depression but the surface isn’t broken. The result is six large buoyancy paddles that support the wasp that you can see as shadows on the bottom of the pond a few inches below. While I had seen these industrious little guys many times taking a drink, this was the first time I’d seen the ‘paddle effect’ on the water.
Canon 90D with CAnon EF-S 55-250mm lens at 250. ISO 2000 1/4000 at f7.1
