Hibiscus salmon terry.

Olympus SP-500 UZ

Managed to catch these in the garden after I'd chased the ants around for awhile.

Just playing around with my Focusing rail after work this morning. Time to get some sleep.

I thought I'd left the water for long enough, but it was still moving a lot by the look of the ink in this photo. Was also seeing the difference in colour and clarity of the drop with the tinted water.

As I was looking round I noticed the langoustine and decided that a close up would be fun!

Irvine, CA 3-4-12

Wow! Yummy!

Inspired by Victor's love of the macro.

Playing with the macro setting. Blogged about www.wecallitjunkin.com/macro-mania-and-free-screensavers/

My camera had NO lens mounted, but I hand held my macro lens (front against the lens hole on the D90 body). I shot with the DOF lever fully closed (the aperture on the bottle was closed down to f16). If you want really shallow DOF (depth of field) then leave the macro bottle wide open (f1.2 on my bottle).

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

This is an RBOB shot - Reverse Bottle On Body (on the front of the camera).

Yes, you can ask. Why gravy granules?

I was showing someone what Bisto was and hadn't put the tub away.

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the story with this is actually written in the card, my thoughts as I have been trying to find some order and peace of mind around the house... the cacti we have, some of them are the ones we bought in 2001 when we moved here...something like a little plant that maybe to many is just that...a plant. Still, we have so many stories where the cacti were involved...so, again, the power of scrapbooking that allows us to keep those everyday moments, the ones which go from routine to mark some serious stuff on our lives, and turn them into beauty with our art :)

the photo is of one of those survivors, taken with my Nikon D40 when I went into macro mania a few weeks ago!!!

TFL!!!!

Bee on a water mint blossom

This praying mantis just happened to be crawling around on the window sill outside my workplace one summer day. It was cooperative enough when I went outside and took some more photos of it walking around on the windows by the back deck and then on a time card.

This is a good "Macro Mania" shot to remind everyone about the Ohio Foothills challenge this weekend. I still haven't decided upon my second and final entry.

Macro bnw

I used to use this as a teaching aid. He now sits on the computer desk.

The frozen peas in the saucepan ready to cook.

It was a very tasty lunch. :O)

This flower really attracts the butterflies. In flemish (dutch) it is known as the Flinders Boom or Butterfly tree