Lilium spp.

Explore #363 12 August 2011

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Parc Ribalta, Castelló de la Plana.

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La Vall de la Murta, Alzira (València).

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Pancolar 1,8/50mm aus JENA DDR (zebra ~ 1970-75)

+ M42-es Helikoid adapter ... ez így egy kitűnő Macro objektív.

Pancolar 1.8 / 50mm from JENA DDR + M42 Helicoid adapter ... it turned out to be an excellent Macro lens.

Photo taken with:

Fujifilm X-H1 + Pancolar 1.8/50mm aus JENA - DDR (Zebra) (Vintage)

1/3500 sec at f/1,8; ISO 100

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Lycaena phlaeas, the small copper, American copper, or common copper, is a butterfly of the Lycaenids or gossamer-winged butterfly family. According to Guppy and Shepard (2001), its specific name phlaeas is said to be derived either from the Greek phlego, "to burn up" or from the Latin floreo, "to flourish".

taken on Easter Saturday 26/3/16 by my smartphone.

A Matter Of How You See It

A droplet caught in a small leaf. A Tribute.

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"Poets use often many words to say a simple thing

It take thoughts and time and rhym to make a poem sing

In other words please be true

In other words I love you!" ~ Nat King Cole ~

Listen to: Fly me to the moon from Nat King Cole

Dedicating this to Li Feng of Canada, who's excellent macro work and stunning landscapes will impress you www.flickr.com/photos/lfeng1014/

Adding this for you, Li to say thanks, I am humbled and apprecaite your support, Project Contact Thank-you.

with raindrops. These flowers are tiny - excellent macro practise !

They really shine On Black !

Work...gym...and a late evening walk in a nearby hill with wonderful meadows. I was lucky that some butterflies settled for the night, offering excellent macro opportunities in the soft evening light.

This is a Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia, réti tarkalepke).

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Work...gym...and a late evening walk in a nearby hill with wonderful meadows. I was lucky that some butterflies settled for the night, offering excellent macro opportunities in the soft evening light.

This is a Small heath butterfly (Coenonympha pamphilus, kis szénalepke).

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Dandelions are excellent macro subjects

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Digital photo manipulation.

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Seen in the garden today..

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A good example of the Ricoh GRiii's excellent macro capability

Inspired by my late Grandad and a most excellent macro photographer from Lincolnshire

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KDD Navajas

Grup AFCASTELLÓ

01-08-2010

We are not allowed to travel to some more exotic places at the moment thanks to Covid-19 lockdown. So, I thought I have a go at photographing a fly in my backyard! Inspired by Stanley Sutton's excellent macro photography. I don't have a macro lens so I used my 100-400mm and focused as close as possible which is just 1m. Not too shabby I suppose but no match for a macro lens of course. But I will keep practicing!

Update 31-March: It seems that this fly's left eye is flat. It must have flown into something hard!

Saltapraos

From the Richard Harvey Studio One

(6 image focus stack, 2s delayed shutter, room light, little tweaks to shadow & contrast in Affinity Photo.)

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November 30, 2022. I have selected this image as my entry for Flickr’s Your Best Shot 2022. In September this was a new venture for me into macro shots which I am enjoying very much, in large part due to the excellent macro photographers here on Flickr from whom I continue to learn. This shot, set up in my home “studio” was enhanced with the focus stacking technique. Coming after a few previous experimental shots in this genre I was very proud of the outcome here. This picture subsequently featured in Flickr’s “Green” Explore Takeover in October. But the real stars of the show are the little group of acorns I had brought home that afternoon. I hope you all enjoy seeing them and my best wishes to everyone for 2023!

monggo :)

Vega-11U 50mm f2.8 enlarger lens from soviet era. Even wide open it is razor sharp and has veru flat field. Colors depends on lighting. On sunny day as this one they are strong and saturated.

With appropriate helicoid adapter it may be used as slower all arround lens, but it goves best reults for close ups. Excellent macro lens.

It is 5 elements in four groups lens. I did not find exact shchema. Said to be some double gauss design, but I could not validate that claim.

Bokeh looks more like Planar (Ultron) type lenses than Tessars. So, it may be some gauss design.

A couple more shots from an excellent macro jolly at Thurlbear Wood and Quarrylands with Stevie.

10 tiny candles to celebrate 10 years of the excellent Macro Mondays group. I haven't changed the colours of the flames - these candles are called Angel flames and burn in different colours!

Gran calma, señal es de agua.

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Enlarger lenses are curious creatures. They are made to be as sharp and to have as neutral colours as possible. No coating either. At the end you do not want that your enlarger spoil that photo made with your very special lens or change its character.

Does that make them boring. Well, yes and no. Typically, they are made to perform at its peak on certain distance from the photographic paper. Not at infinity range. So ween used at that peak distance they produce very sharp and clean images. Not overly contrast. Enlarger lenses are also usually slow or very slow. That makes them not a good candidate for bokeh photos or portrait lenses. In fact, they are often see not good for anything other than macro photography. And yes, you may get yourself an excellent macro for a fraction of dedicated macro lens. But, with a lot of patience and try and error those lenses may surprise at all situations.

This Tominon 75mm f4.5 is no exception. There is nothing inherently flashy in it. But it may be gentle with the background and pop the edges if we come to a right distance.

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Els Anserins (Anserinae) són una subfamília dels anàtids (família Anatidae) que conté els cignes i les oques autèntiques. Una classificació alternativa (vegeu Terres & NAS, 1991), separa aquests grups en dues subfamílies, els Anserinae, que inclouria les oques i els ànecs arboris, i els Cignins (Cygninae), que inclouria els cignes.

ESP:

Oca y ganso son sinónimos, se refieren a la misma especie, pertenece a la familia de los anátidos, es un animal domestico de gran tamaño, de plumaje gris y blanco, a bandas en el dorso y en el flanco, con patas fuertes y aptas para andar y su alimentación es esencialmente vegetal, son aves cautelosas que graznan al menor signo de peligro.

Project 365, 2022 Edtion: Day 265/365

Today while photographing mushrooms on a log not far from this one, I had a frightening encounter with a hornets' nest. I posted my account in Flickrology: www.flickr.com/groups/4515809@N20/discuss/72157721917369358/

A few days ago I posted another photo of this attractive cluster of fungi taken on the smartphone. It begged me to return with the new EOS RP and the excellent macro lens.

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Taken behind our business...

Tiny wild flowers...

Ameisenkopf, 9-fache Vergrößerung, Sony Alpha 6400 Kamera, Objektiv aus dem LOMO Mikroskop Planachromat 9-X. ISO-100. Belichtung ¼ Sekunden. Stapeln Sie 65 Frames. 3 Lampen, Diffusor. Balgengerät.

Ant head, 9x magnification, Sony Alpha 6400 camera, objective from the LOMO Planachromat 9-X microscope. ISO-100. Exposure ¼ seconds. Stack 65 frames. 3 lamps, diffuser. Bellows device.

Last capture from Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

Thanks to Sir Dino for FP snaphot

FP Explore on April 22, 2009 #5

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had seen this one at my backyard , taken on late evening 07.00 pm.. still had plenty of light :)

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....all personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

- Anthony Robbins

a happy smiling bokeh wednesday to us all! :-)

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Started nature photography years ago with macro. Then moved on to avian photography.

Inspired by the numerous excellent macro work posted on FB, I recently acquired a Laowa 25mm and flash diffuser and dived back into macro work.

Lighter equipment, abundance of suitable subjects and less crowd are just some of the perks.

Sharing a picture of a female Adanson's house jumper feasting on a fruit fly.

D850. Laowa 25mm at 2x. ISO200. 1/160. F8. Handheld. SB800 with diffuser.

MacroMondays "Redux 2018" theme

HNY to all members of MM, hope to see bunch of your new

excellent macros in 2019!