Good Morning! I know some of you guys will hate me for posting this.... But hey! Isn't it great to start the day by taking a macro photograph of a grasshopper? hahaha

I was looking for springtails on the little white wildflowers when this guy stole the show!

Yellowjackets didn't like sharing the feeder with a butterfly & kept harassing it...

These little guys were all flying out to one wet rock in the middle of the rapids, gathering up a crop full of water and then heading off. I snapped her just in time!

I found this little dear one on the inside of my screen door, so I gently helped him outside and onto on one of my potted flower plants. These jumping spiders are tricky to manipulate because they hop great distances when disturbed. So you have to convince them you're their friend first.

Terellia tussilaginis. First shots with my new Nikon R1C1.

yeurgh

Trying to get that elusive ladybird good pic! Still failing but I like to try :)

(2) Japanese Beetles just gettin together on a summer day.......Curious why both have their left arms up. Time out perhaps or kind of like syncronized sex ? Just not sure...

Captured with a Nikon D3 60mm Macro 125th at F16. Camera left Nikon SB-900 off to the right and high..

This is some sort of flying insect that was taking a nose dive and trying to burrow into the lawn. Got there too late to catch a front view so here's the rear view!

Insect

Grasshoper in the garden

Found at Cassville Bluffs SNA in far south-western Wisconsin. Grant County, Wisconsin, USA.

Found on hardwood stump end.

Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-24EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

I sat on the wall outside work in the sunshine enjoying an egg and bacon sandwich, watching ants go about their daily business. When I dropped a small piece of bacon they thought it was brilliant. I got some funny looks but little did they know I was laying on the ground to observe these flesh eating ants!

Shot using my standard kit lens at 55mm with a 50mm lens reversed on the front of that, my cheapo macro kit. I enjoy using it but the depth of focus is sooooooooo small.

Small world

Taken on Conwy Mountain

Shot with Yasuhara Nanoha by approximately 5:1. Stacked 27 photos using CombineZP.

This image is available at: Fine Art America

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This photo was taken on September 3, 2012 using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II [EXIF].

Lens: Tamron 90mm f2.8 Macro

Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)

Aperture: f/6.3

ISO Speed: 100

Focal Length: 90 mm

Exposure Bias: 0 EV

Flash: Off, Did not fire

macro fujifilm xe-1 ext tube Carl zeiss 58mm f/2

Macro

Closeup of a wasp, taken with a Canon 100mm macro lens and a reversed Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens. Fortunately (for me, not for it) it was quite dead at the time so nailing the focus was easy.