making my wife happy and the old gray bench a bit more handsome ;)

alte Baumschule Böllhoff, kurz vor dem Abriss! Als Kinder haben wir dort gespielt, heute ist es nur noch "verlassen"...

The place of my childhood. Trees and plants nursery "Böllhoff", shortly to complete demolition, cause of new buildings

it could not be closer... in different meanings!

saw this giants on a city festival... the kids were impressed

near Monreal, Eifel, Germany

year 1229

2 seconds before this ladybird took off... much more points than our normal ladybirds, so Harmonia axyridis...

long time not seen...

edit (16.01.2012): lol - today in the german press/news: discussions about the

trademark "made in germany". I meant it when i said: long time not seen.... We´re controlling it !

in black and white

in bw and some lightning

alte Baumschule Böllhoff, kurz vor dem Abriss! Als Kinder haben wir dort gespielt, heute ist es nur noch "verlassen"...

The place of my childhood, Trees and Plants nursery "Böllhoff", shortly to complete demolition, cause of new buildings!

we played a little crossgolf with some friends... it was fun

neues Objekiv und alte Carrera-Bahn ausgepackt

macro angel

mhmmm, swarovski?

alte Baumschule Böllhoff, kurz vor dem Abriss! Als Kinder haben wir dort gespielt, heute ist es nur noch "verlassen"...

The place of my childhood, Trees and Plants nursery "Böllhoff", shortly to complete demolition, cause of new buildings!

mums grandfather

Ruhrgebiet Germany vor 100Jahren

taking some macro shots of birthday flowers... these are very small

Skateboard "OpenArea" Oberhausen, Germany

looks like a star-birthplace

but, it is the surface of a mandarin ... macro vision...

best place of real astronomy go here : my favorite site.... apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

the details of this bottle ship are a great work ... you can see it on the front sail

now the other side

Testing some macro shots

Der Euro ist immer noch ganz groß!

HOTracer macro

focus on the steering wheel

found some old cars and made a night of macroshots...Hope you like it...

taking some macro shots in the garden...

some macro shots of flowers

tonemapped with photomatix...

macro vision: leaf of orange roses...

my wife had birthday so these were really fresh... ;)

neues Objekiv und alte Carrera-Bahn ausgepackt

Hier möchte ich Nachts nicht alleine sein... HDR (photomatix) pic from deep in the woods

Hit L to view on Black.

light hose on a tree macro

Handy im Dunkel - 3 Versionen

near Monreal, Eifel, Germany

year 1229

nothing to say... Its very beautiful to watch the details with the macro lense... See the whole glass lion at the other pic "lion in glass"... Hope you like it too

krasse Farben im Wald... giftig oder nicht? ich würde sie nicht essen...

some friends had their wedding last week... found this lost wedding bouquet late at night on the balustrade

of "Wasserschloss Wittringen" (-> de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Wittringen)

macroshot of the old Agfamatic 2008 pocket cam

...googled: Aktiengesellschaft für Anilinfabrikation

christmas decoration in macrostyle

found some old cars and made a night of macroshots...Hope you like it...

deep in the forest

macro world

I love macro shots. Till now I only used my 70-300lense with macrofunction to zoom something. Have a look to my first pics like spiders etc. But yesterday I bought some ext.tubes (?) or ext.rings 13,23,31 mm to try a cheep macrosolution. (did not have the money for real macrolense)

After some testshots yesterday night I lol-ed about the quality of pics you can get when using some extension rings in addition my 28mm 2.8 canonlense!!! Comments? please... cheers

macro world

Skateboard "OpenArea" Oberhausen, Germany

neues Objekiv und alte Carrera-Bahn ausgepackt

macro shot pure

kurz vor Sonnenuntergang...

close to sunset

"selfportrait" ... 28mm 2.8/f with 34mm ext.ring

Der Weihnachtsbaum

taking the head of a little decorationtoy with macrolense

or is it a spider? ;) dont know the species but that little fellow looks a bit dangerous in macro view

@ Matt: thank you, so it is a ladybird larva

christmas macro version