Happy Macro Monday one and all!

Red ants on a cornflower bud. Not seen this many ants on one bud before.

You can clearly see the reason why though - there are pools of honeydew on the bud. Not sure if this is natural or whether the ants actually damage the bud to make it leak. Focus stacked using zerene stacker

Small tortoiseshell butterfly. Highdown gardens Worthing

Una piccola farfalla azzurra

© Atomic Blue Bee

Indonésie Sulawezi Lembeh

Enflammée !

Ok we get it now....!

I phone

A melon balling wasp. It did fly off with the melon ball presumably to feed to the larvae

Frosty start yesterday morning - frozen dewdrop

Male Calico Pennant.

A beautiful Easter gift

Plant bug having a drink. Saw this fly off my coat when I had come inside after a walk. Trapped it and gave it a drop of sugar/honey syrup to feed on

a macro photo of a ladybird,not easy trying to get a shot when they keep walking lol,i used my cheap but very good raynox lens for this

At the patio this afternoon, the day was gorgeous and the light perfect.

Anthurium

Shot with a 24mm lens reversed on 3 extension tubes. The flash is mounted on a hinged hot shoe that allows the flash to lean out over the stack, a DIY snoot fires the light directly in front of the lens.

I've made this pic with a macro reverse ring and a 18-55 kit lens on my D5100, on a nice sunny day.

Here I reversed an Olympus 50mm f1.8 zuiko onto a Canon 50mm f1.4.

Most people have probably experimented with this technique and will understand how ridiculously shallow the depth of field becomes.

This shot took a few takes as the focus was difficult to get right, also Ben kept on laughing

I like the vignetting the reverse lens created.

Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus in flight

On the Ramp

Cymbidium orchid lip macro

Macro shot of a Locust. Taken using a Canon L Series 100mm Macro lens on a EOS 600d. This shot was taken in a makeshift studio. Used a tripod.

My girlfriend rescued the Locust (later named Haf) from my brother who was going to feed poor Haf to a Tarantula!