Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, 小倉百人一首, is a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Waka or Japanese poems, and also refers to the card game.

This photo is taken for Macro Mondays' theme for 18 July 2016 - "Cards".

Happy Macro Mondays!

Too wet to go out today, so here's a flash lit (hawthorn?) shield bug on my Japanese anemone in the Wildlife Café.

Ballycotton fog at low tide.

Saw this in the sunlight today, so I took a quick snap with the macro lens? Can you guess what it is? Answers below please....

Explored 18-02-2014. Thank you for your visits, comments and faves :)

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Early Daffodils /Anticipation of spring Just starting to bloom outside my window

First attempt working on a new technique. This is straight out of the camera

taken for Macro Mondays' theme for 19 September 2016 - "Sweet Spot Squared"

After several attempts, I've found 'sweet spot' setting of my Tamron SP 90mm F2.8 Macro seems to be F 8.0 on Aperture Priority Mode.

handball court wall GAA Cloyne sports complex.

taken for Macro Mondays' theme for 14 March 2016 - "Red"

( Better on black )

Aidez moi a m'améliorer / Help me to improve.

gerbera daisy just opening up- no breeze this AM so it's time for macro shooting