Nature's own lens


Image by sunnyUK
Nature's lenses are provided by waterdrops. Anything behind a waterdrop will be refracted shown upside down and left-to-right - just like a glass lens.

Taken for Active Assignment Weekly: Lenses

Assignment: You can take photos of anything you like but in your image the lens (glasses, contact lenses, magnifying lenses, telescopes, camera lenses...any!) must be an important part of the composition.

Dare: show us the world through your lens (and of course I don't mean your camera's lens but the lens that you put in your photo)!

Restriction: no people in the photo...but any other human living being is allowed.

What it took:: Green plant placed on a chair in the bathroom and given a shower so there were loads of water drops hanging from the leaves. Orange flower placed behind green plant and black cardboard placed behind orange flower.

Lit by overhead tungsten light diffused through frosted lamp shade.

Focusing on the water drop was easy, but focusing on the refraction of the flower within the water drop was a pain. The distances involved are tiny and it feels like the DOF is non-existing.

It was a great learning experience, but also a lengthy one. I started by trying to place drops on a leaf with an eye dropper. But as waterdrops are most stable in a humid environment and as our living room is not moist, this was a waste of time. By filling the bathroom with steam and then showering a plant, I had loads of drops within a few minutes.

There's an excellent introduction to water drop refraction photos here

Cristalli di ghiaccio magico disegno


Image by Ferruccio Zanone
Come un sogno vedo magici disegni su uno sfondo stellato.
In realtà sono riuscito per la prima volta scattare questa immagine che anche se non perfetta, mi ha dato grande soddisfazione, con la mia vecchia reflex a pellicola questo non mi era concesso.
Ora con il digitale e la quantità di accessori reperibili anche a non elevato prezzo ci sono riuscito.
Ho utilizzato una lente Raynox DCR-250 che si monta indifferentemente su vari obiettivi, è obbligatorio il cavalletto e un tele di almeno 110mm, basta lasciare all'esterno la vostra auto, mettere a fuoco i cristalli che si sono formati in queste rigide notti sui vetri, e il gioco è fatto.
Dovrei acquistare la lente MSN-202 ancor più potente per entrare nel vero mondo della macro.

Smokin' 411-730


Image by BlackburnMike_1
Playing with smoke.
Strobist info..
Snooted 430EX II camera right and front.
7D, 70/2.8 Sigma Macro, f/22, 1/250 ISO 250

Creamed!


Image by JD Hancock
Another stormtrooper falls!

Photo submitted to the Flickr group Macro Mondays for the "creamy" theme.

Part of my Stormtroopers series.

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Image by Cassiopée2010

Lunchtime


Image by KM&G-Morris
It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon with temps around 80 deg. C. in Houston. Signs of spring everywhere; dragonflies, turtles, birds, trees in bloom and budding out, butterflies, gentle breezes insteads of gale force... great day to kick back in the sun just like my squirrel was doing at lunch time.

Fila indiana


Image by ccrrii
Primissimi esperimenti con la lente macro, regalo della mia amatissima dolce metà <3

Red lips 2


Image by distar97
Non-digital water drop macro picture of a less than one square inch window screen. Water drops were place by syringe.

Diamond Paperweight 8-24-09 1


Image by stevendepolo
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Diamond glass paperweight macro in the sun with reflections

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Mass Exodus


Image by Bill Gracey
Something, or someone, disturbed the ducks near the shore at Santee Lakes, and they all took off and spooked the heron. He was so irate. He flew about thirty feet and landed on the roof of a boathouse and protested loudly for a long time. An impressive display of outrage. I took about five pictures of him flying, and in all of them his beak is wide open, screeching the entire way.

Santee Lakes, as I've learned from local nature photographer Steve Cirone is a marvelous place to take bird photographs. I live nearby, and only used to go there for infrared photography.

Like all photographs it looks best large. Press "L" to see it large on a dark background.

Other pictures of birds and critters plus infrared landscapes can be seen in my Santee Lakes set. ..... www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157627547766547/...

More of my bird pictures can bee seen in (of all places) my birds set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628206812625/

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Image by Wolfgang Lonien
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Olympus E-520 and 50mm macro lens
Yongnuo YN-460II flash at 1/8 power through 1/8 Honl grid camera left
white A4 sized paper camera right

see also on my blog

The way through the woods


Image by Steve-h
Autumn leaves and puddles cover one of the woodland paths in Bushy Park, Dublin, on a recent sunny morning.

Colour editing in Lightroom

Taken with my 100mm macro lens - on a tripod and using a wireless remote control shutter release - at ISO 50, 2 seconds, f32.

Maid In America


Image by JD Hancock
American Maid is a superhero from the cartoon series The Tick. This 2 3/4 inch figure stands ready to fight for justice.

Photo submitted to the Flickr group Macro Mondays for the "White, Red and Blue" theme.

Photo seen in Flickr Explore.

abstract architecture


Image by Darwin Bell

Prague Architecture


Image by KJGarbutt
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Macro of Maryke Rhodie


Image by photogirl7.1
This Maryke Rhodie is one of my favorite shots as the macro brings out the softness of detail and gives a soft velvety feeling to the flower. The soft pink is pleasing to the eye and relaxing.

Tromotriche revoluta flower macro


Image by Martin_Heigan
A macro photograph of a Tromotriche revoluta flower (from Botterkloof, Northern Cape, South Africa).

Field Number: PVB 6036

Best viewed LARGE.

Martin
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Macro of Tamerack needles (Larch)


Image by clickclique
A fall colour macro of these Tamerack needles.

Flutes


Image by Swamibu
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Natures trumpets

The Foxglove, Digitalis grow in tall spires with dangling tube-like flowers. They come in white, yellows, mauves, maroons and purples, many with beautiful speckles in the 'throat'. The genus is native to Europe, western and central Asia, and northwestern Africa.

Medicines from foxgloves are called "Digitalin". The use of Digitalis purpurea extract containing cardiac glycosides for the treatment of heart conditions was first described by William Withering, in 1785, which is considered the beginning of modern therapeutics.