Chives in a pot. When we moved to Italy, 3 years ago, we brought this plant with us. It's still alive and when we don't use a lot of chives, it blooms. And I really like those flowers.

And the colour too

A lovely feature of the macro lens is it allows the user to use a really shallow depth of field and personally find this composition quite pleasing.

Part of a set of 3 which I thought would sit well as a group - still debating

Have been trying to take pictures of daisy buds, but there wasn't enough light to get something I liked.

I had Luigi with me and thought he was a perfect match with Daisy.

Cute couple

Of course I had to take a shot of a piece of my jewelry.

Can't remember when I had it around my neck, but I don't want to throw it away. For some reason I like this one very much.

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Shot for the "Macro Madness" event on Facebook. Basically someone created an event where the focus for the week is macro type shots.

Part of a set of 3 which I thought would sit well as a group - still debating

Part of a set of 3 which I thought would sit well as a group - still debating

Need some help... Can't remember how to add the shadow under the photo. :-)) 11.07

Just remembered, have to use gaussian blurr on the shadow! 11.08

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Water drops on a CD, was attempting to get the light refracting from the CD and showing up through the water drops.

An archive shot with some new postprocessing.... the Inside Macro... My Sigma does better sharpness & details with better light conditions.

Isobel investigates my macro lens…

Big Eye

Done blooming, now let's make some new plants.

This was a very nice flower

Water drops on a CD, was attempting to get the light refracting from the CD and showing up through the water drops.

High Contrast Black & White Samsung batteries

Warmth...

So much to learn...

A very well behaved butterfly that kindly stayed still for ages whilst i fiddled around with the camera settings which enabled me to get quite close.

I don't know why, but this just makes me think of the Planet Express ship from Futurama…

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at this time they are all gone!

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Still in two minds whether this composition really works. In hindsight i think focusing on the seeds a little to the left may have given a more pleasing photo

Loved trying to capture a spider with a macro lens but couldn't quite get close enough without the use of extension tubes. Still enjoy seeing their eyes

For a relatively simple shot it seemed to take ages to take. Whilst waiting for the wind to drop enough to allow the shot to be taken the sun kept moving. Unfortunately the best shot was taken with ISO1600 and was just too noisy to post.