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Recently acquired off Ebay Prestine condition Micro Nikkor Ais F2.8 55mm at a cost of £79.99. D100 used in manual mode, exposure estimated aperture used F5.6/F8. Lighting overcast spitting with rain, usual English Summer weather.
Just got my new Nikkor 60mm MICRO lens. It's freaking awesome. Please excuse these gratuitous close ups.
Getting closer still, and changing the focal point again.
This little daisy is a tiny little wild daisy growing in my yard...it is 3/4" from petal tip to petal tip!
This is a handheld shot...enabled by better light to have a little faster shutter speed; manual mode, manual focus (as they say, autofocus ain't necessarily your friend with micro shots); a 20mm and a 36mm extension tube stacked together. Me on my creakedy old knees and elbows as a tripod.
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This little wild daisy in my yard measures exactly 3/4" from tip to tip of its petals. What beauty in such a small world, eh?
This is a handheld shot, down on my elbows and knees, trying to hold steady. LOL
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Some of these photographs appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers; they are not. All of these photos are micro (macro) photographs of the super-tiny blooms that blossom on common weeds.
Weed flowers...wild flowers...whichever appellation you want to bestow on them nonetheless these almost microscopic beauties are the flowers that bloom on the weeds in my yard.
Many people also assume that these flowers are, for example, squash or zucchini-sized flowers, or that they are flowers 1" in diameter or larger and are perhaps on stems a foot tall or so. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Most of these flowers when measured petal tip to petal tip at their widest diameters measure 1/4" (6mm) across…or less...the entire bloom is that small. And the average stem height is only a few inches tall, if that.
The smallest weed flower I've shot yet is a small ring of flowers that measured less than 1/32" (.7mm) in diameter which encircled a spire which measured about 1/64" (0.3mm) in diameter.
For some photos I’ve included references to common objects such as the head of a paper match, or the head of a pin, which dwarfs some of these tiny flowers! On some others I’ve listed a description of the actual size of each object in the photo.
So far I've made over 700 photographs of over 50 varieties of weed flowers.
I hope that seeing the variety, beauty, and intricate complexity of this small world astonishes and pleases you as much as it has me.
Thanks for looking.
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Micro Weed Flowers:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157626023965740/
Micro Weed Flowers II:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633029514344/
Micro Weed Flowers III:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633029556370/
Micro Weed Flowers IV:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633025347237/
Micro Weed Flowers V:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633029592988/
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I used the micro setting on my camera to get this extreme close up on my guitar. I was still trying to think in terms of the rule of 3rds.
The farms above the Snake River were amazing.
For those of you stalking us online, we arrived in Walla Walla this evening. My cellphone' s battery died mid-day as it was frantically searching for a signal so I wasn't able to "check in" with you all.
Tomorrow we head into Portland.
Spring is here - the tadpoles have arrived and are breaking free in my pond!!!!
Using the micro-macro feature to get a shot of the tadpoles in my pond! (This is the cropped version in picnik! See original: www.flickr.com/photos/59897381@N07/5595628747/ )