Hasselblad 503CW

Carl Zeiss 150mm/F4.0

Kodak Ektar 100

Develop：Arista C41 38C 4:50 mins

Blix: 6:30mins 38C

Wash： 3:00 mins

Stabilizer: 1min

Flo： 1 min

Scan：Epson E800

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Experimenting indoors with a vintage glass bottle and lighting. No need to comment if you're a birder or landscape expert ;-) I’m trying to decide whether to keep my second Flickr site I started three years ago for such experimental macros.

NB. This is NOT for MacroMondays ;-)

Kestrel watching everywhere ... but the camera

A stunning adult Golden-tailed Gecko navigates the branch with great dexterity.

Harvest mouse sheltering in the tulip, cannot believe I took this back in February on an outing to Captive Light with Ade

Have just looked at the photos... only processed two of them!!

so now I have seen... ill do more

For Macro Mondays - Brush.

Van Gogh Phthalo Blue watercolor pigment.

Speedlight with softbox, above.

2.5 inches in greatest dimension.

Portrait of a really stunning captive-bred sub-adult male Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus). Both parents originating from the volcanic plains in western Victoria and this specimen typical of unbanded individuals hailing from that region (pers.obs.)

Still life. Studio lighting using two speedlights.

A few bits and pieces I collected and dried last summer. On the left knapweed (Centaurea nivea) and the rest self-heal (Prunella Vulgaris).

Thanks for use of Kerstin Frank's texture "KF - Texture Set X (36)"

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Many thanks for faves & comments, they're much appreciated :-)

Metal Eyelets with a diameter of 4 mm, photo taken in the Studio. - Lens: Nikon Micro AF-D Nikkor 105/2.8 with additional extension tubes.

Adult female Lowland Copperhead from under a sheet of iron on my farm recently.

Canon 5D IV, Laowa 100/2.8 Macro Dreamer.

Captive juvenile Western Tiger Snake from the Perth region.

Burden of Memories

Strobist :" 1 off camera flash left side with softbox @ 1/8 power

Vivitar 285 VH

Dedicated to all that guys which like Portrait Photography !!!!

For Macro Mondays - Fill the Frame.

Speedlight with CTO gel 1/2 stop and reflector bowl with grid - from right and aimed at edge of leaf. Silver reflector above left.

2.8 inches in greatest dimension.

Portrait of a stunning young stowaway Dainty Tree Frog from a consignment of plants coming from Queensland. Australia.

Canon 5D IV with the vintage Leitz Wetzlar Leica R series Macro Elmar 100/4 Bellows combination from the 1980's and lit with an Elinchrom kit.

Studio portrait of a young captive Coastal Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus)

For Macro Mondays - Spiky.

37 subimages stacked in Zerene. Speedlight bounced off black background. Black flag, bottom. Silver reflector, top right.

2 inches in greatest dimension.

When I saw the final image, I had the uneasy feeling that I has seen it before... check out this link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan%27s_Greatest_Hits

For Macro Mondays - Spiral.

Toyo 45G. Nikon 120mm/5.6 AM*ED Macro Lens. Ilford FP4+@100. B+W Yellow filter, 1-stop. F22 @ 1/125s. Normal development in Rodinal @1:25 for 9 minutes.

Single strobe with grid front left.

One can find both clockwise and counterclockwise spiral patterns in the sunflower seeds, and the number of seeds in a given spiral is a Fibonacci number - 34 and 55 are two adjacent numbers in the Fibonacci sequence that are often seen. For more information momath.org/home/fibonacci-numbers-of-sunflower-seed-spirals/.

2.5 inches in greatest dimension (1.6x)

Portrait of a gorgeous male Dainty Tree Frog from SE Qld.