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Observations:
This moss is normally a brilliant green and was a few weeks ago.
We are in a really dry spell and I noted that the moss was brown.
Reading up on Moss, it does go dormant in dry spells.
Comparison shot below from last year.
One of the easiest way to get interesting pictures is to get a macro lens and point it to something small.
The world of panoramic is big. But I can tell you one thing. The world of macro is even bigger than it.
The small snowdrop is the sign of early spring and it is my favorite subject this time of the year.
Have a great start of the week!
This is my shot taken at Queen Elizabeth Park yesterday with the 105mm macro lens. Let's take out all our macro lens and do the "first come first shoot" in spring!
about 30 seconds before this shot was taken this bull ant bit me on the thumb .. that was about 5 hours ago and my thumb is still swollen & sore .. i'm grateful i saw him otherwise i would have been worried that something poisonous and possibly deadly had bitten me .. coz it sure did hurt .. !!
the blood is artistic licence .. i was surprised that he didnt draw blood coz of the pain, but after googling bull ants just now, i found out that they dont bite, they sting with their rear end!
used another photograph of the grass i was sitting in as an overlay ..
Love all of God's creations, both the whole and every grain of sand.
Love every leaf, every ray of light.
Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing.
If you love each thing, you will perceive the mystery of God in all
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
Lear.
So my friends..great words to live by let's see if i can do it...
wishing you a great week
xo
i've written stuff about this and shooting macro shots with a link to some excellent advice from LordV .. its in the photographer's comments here
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Looking closely yields beautiful and interesting views of small things that might otherwise go unnoticed.
my friend stephanie made all these ceramic flowers. we have an ugly chandelier in our dining room, so i put her flowers on it and it looks better now.
Small people
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I have to correct myself and say this was inspired by Jon Coplans, David Levinthal, and Hannah Wilke not Cindy Sherman as I have originally noted. I forget names but remember some compositions.
Late resounds what early sounded.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Typeface: Poplar
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I'm not sure what type of spider this is, not seen one before, he was tiny, so thought I'd add a selection of extras, all found at Wollaton on Tuesday and all on the small side :) If you look hard, you can still find bugs in the Winter :)
there were 15 to 20 paper wasps on this nest during summer .. there are only two wasps left now .. they die off as winter approaches and the queen lays no more eggs so the community is not replaced .. a few survive over winter by hibernating, and a queen starts a new nest in the next spring ..
this is the underside of the nest where the queen would have laid the eggs during the warmer months .. the larvae grow in there, and the adult wasps catch caterpillars to feed the larvae .. the workers, which are mostly female, live on flower nectar ..
A boy and a dog. So small today but maybe great friends for life.
"snips and snails and puppy dog tails, that's what boys are made of"
I have many shelves I call “small things shelves.” Dracula has been working tirelessly to add all of our found on the ground, or in the bottoms of dusty cardboard boxes at flea markets, or corners of antique stores. I think this was the last bag of things so hopefully on a good light day I’ll switch out lenses so I can get a little closer and snap some pictures of the collection of tiny little things.