Taken with an iPhone 4 macro, edited with an iPad 2

More macro mania. I think this may be a weed, picked from my front garden. The heads of these 'flowers' measure just 1/2cm.

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its been macro-mania for me the past few days....

Equipment:

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens: Sigma 150mm F2.8 EX APO DG HSM Macro

Focal Length: 150 mm

ISO Speed: 1600

Aperture: f/8

Filter: B+W UV MC

Processing:

Import into Lightroom

Adjust vibrance, curve, contrast, and saturation

Export to FastStone

Resize and Watermark

Reach out and touch someone :) Spring is almost here...thanks to the garden centres for providing us with pretty spring flowers:)

Don't know the real name but I like this name just as well! Have a great Sunday and remember to stop and "Shoot" the flowers and "Thank GOD For Them"

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A predatory Robber Fly preying on a Housefly.

This hoverfly or flower fly is just 2mm (3/16") long... They get rid of aphids..

A great little "spring break", and now it's Book Fair week at school. It's going to be a long week...

OhioFoothills--April theme is "Macro Mania".

This is an RBOKL shot - Reverse Bottle On Kit Lens. I hand held it together - if you want to get sophisticated, use electrical tape! See here:

www.flickr.com/photos/alanw89/454798197/

My camera had the standard kit lens (18-105mm) mounted, with my macro lens (front against the kit lens). The macro bottle DOF lever must be fully OPEN. Closing the aperture down will only narrow the field of view.

Control the DOF with the kit lens (f32 in this case). If you want really shallow DOF (depth of field) then leave the kit lens wider open.

Macro bottle is an old manual lens from an old film camera (55mm, f1.2).

Shoot with kit lens on tele (105mm) to minimise vignetting from the macro bottle. The bottle should also have a large aperture to minimise vignetting. To maximise magnification, set the macro bottle to infinity, kit lens to closest focus.

Macro Mania is the theme for OhioFoothills, and the entries are due this weekend. I need to work on mine...

Thanks to all who have taken the time to comment, much appreciated :-)

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How about "Tuttie Fruttie" by Little Richard

~kiwi & raspberries~

A Twig

I gave this a little nudge to see if it would open its wings. It did, but flew onto the sleeve of my cardie.

ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=15

*Macro mania – disorder, avoiding the scenery, delaying getting out of the car in honor of a very small critter flying in using your finger as a Landing strip : - )

Nigella damascena or "Love in a Mist" .

Tiger Flower, Påfågelslilja, Tigerblomma, Tigridia povonia.

This exotic Mexican bulb is sometimes called peacock flower, an appropriate name in view of its quite startling colour combinations- all the shades of scarlet, orange, pink, yellow, mauve and white, usually with contrasting markings.

Exotisk medlem av irisfamiljen med svärdsliknande bladverk och iögonfallande 10 cm stora blommor i gult, rött, rosa och rent vitt,

Color Magic - Hybrid Tea Rose

Tulip macro that I thought would look right at home in a modern art museum!

My friend Aaron gave me his dedicated macro lens to try out for a few days. It's opened up a whole new world to me, just like he said it would.

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I grow tired of typing text here, the photo has notes :-)

One of my favourite colours that a geranium comes in. For me it exudes happiness =))

Mais uma, também flutuando em teias finíssimas.

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Parque Lage, Rio - 04Set.2005

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One more, also floating in very thin spiderwebs.

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Lage Park, Rio, Sept04.2005

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Canon EF 100mm F2.8 MACRO USM

macro mania at Farley Mount Nr Winchester Hampshire UK

1. Directly onto my Nikon body F mount using a 58mm thread to Nikon F mount adapter.

2, Onto the front of my Nikon 55-300 mm lens using a 58/58mm coupling adapter.

For the time being, I have to hand-hold the lens in place (not very convenient, especially if you have les than 3 hands!).

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