Macro

You simply must look at this in "Large", or ever better "Original" to see the detail in the centre.

Taken at Dewstow Gardens & Grotto, Caldicot, Monmouthshire with my Olympus 35mm f3.5 Macro lens, which is proving to be a revelation. Manually focused using the live view's ability to zoom in 10x to get really sharp.

Note that this is not cropped or Photoshopped.

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Wishing you all a snuggly Sunday of Solitude!

Large red damselfly on my hand

A very co-operative dragonfly. They are only about 1 1/2 " long, and the warm sunshine was too hard to resist for it!

Another view of the moth seen earlier - this time in profile.

A very wet male miner bee on my finger drying out a bit after some rain

Bague d'inversion 18-55mm

I wish i could explain how my joy knew no bounds after clicking these pics with the constant fear of a bee which was sitting on the same plant.

E-5 + Zuiko 50 f2 ED

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

macro snails

Samambaia - Bracken

This is just a hand-held macro shot in natural light of a hibiscus.

Pu'er, Yunnan, China

macro with reversed 18-55mm canon kit lens

Harlequin ladybird on a fallen leaf.

NTU Singapore Macro Walk with MASP

Macro shot (1:1) of multi-coloured gourmet peppercorns.

Last 4 tests of the loaned OLYMPUS Zuiko Auto-Macro 50mm f3.5 lens used on my OM2n and Jessops Pan 100 film I did a VIDEO about this lens and explained about 'Curvature of Field' with 'Ordinary' 50mm lenses -- you can see it here :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lbYjpNUXo

Adena's Garden

Wimberley, TX

macro with Fuji 80 mm macro

Got quite a few old books, I love books! Anyway, some make an interesting read as regards name changes! What we now know as Pentatoma rufipes was 'Tropicoris rufipes'.

Coreus marginatus used to be Syromastes marginatus.

Then there's Acanthosoma interstinctum.... which I thought might be Elasmostethus interstinctum, but the author (Edward Step) clearly describes the 'maternal instinct', so perhaps he's talking of Elasmucha grisea?

One other, for which I've yet to work out the identity, is Pentatoma juniperinum. Could it be Chlorochroa juniperina? Have searched but not found anything! Any ideas?

Anyhow, both shots were taken at Moreton Corbet. Above in July and below in August last year.