The common spangle gall wasp produces a small, disc-shaped growth, or 'gall', on the undersides of oak leaves. Inside the gall, the larvae of the wasp feed on the host tissues, but cause little damage.

Source: www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/galls/common-spa...

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Single lens reverse macro. Used a reversing ring to attach a reversed lens to the camera. In this case an old Nikon Nikkor-S Auto 1:1.2 f=55mm from the good old film days. What I like about this lens is the ability to open it up to focus and then being able to stop it down to capture the light. Using a Macro reverse ring camera mount for Canon EOS camera (NIKO LMC-1 52mm adaptor).

This system is a great starting point or way of experimenting with macro photography. I have a true macro lens which I use alot, but this is fun cause it is a bit of a challange AND its cheep. So you lose all the automatic features of your camera and have to shoot in manual mode.

There was a little cropping done on this image to remove a light flair and I have no idea what power of magnification is involved. Focusing was done by moving back and forth.

This is the tiniest Shieldbug I've ever come across.

I thought at first it was a speck of dirt but I've learnt over the years never to dismiss a speck of dirt because it might just have legs.

I've deliberately cropped it wide to hopefully show how tiny it is.

I think this is the nymph of a Green Shieldbug.

Click on large for a closer look !

amazing little black & white barrels full of harlequin bugs

Taken with Xiaomi Mi Sphere.

Xiaomi Mi Sphere

Une silhouette minuscule face à l’immensité blanche.

La neige crisse sous les pas, la dameuse rouge attend en arrière-plan, fidèle et silencieuse.

Dans ce décor d’hiver en LEGO, tout redevient essentiel : avancer, imaginer, explorer.

Parfois, les plus grandes aventures naissent dans les plus petits mondes.

I knew how to produce this effect in Photoshop but didn't know there was a way of doing it on the iPhone until I spotted Reservoir Dan using Tiny Planet...

iPhone 4

Apps:

Tiny Planet

Camera Bag

Shock my Pic

Cameramatic

(Melanargia galathea)

Framed and raw converted in Insta360Studio, raw developed in Affinity Photo 2.6.4, colour graded in Nik 8 Color Efex, tweaked in Topaz Denoise and finished off back in PhotoLab.

Port Kembla Heritage Park, Wollongong, NSW

Nikon D7100 + Nikkor 40 mm

a cricket and my basil

shot with Fujifilm XE-1 and Tamron 90mm f2.5 Macro Lens

more shots here:

andreatallone.tumblr.com/post/148245033696/green-camoufla...

Shot with Xiaomi Sphere

Stars will blossom in the darkness...

- Julia C. R. Dorr

There's a lot of moss and fallen twigs on my woodshed.

The myriad micro worlds, on the Rose Garden's aging brick wall, warmed in the golden winter sunlight.

Week eight theme - Rat's Eye View

Week 8 - 56/365

Columbine (Aquilegia)

Found in the garden - one of our favorites.

[Explored July 09, 2018]

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on drackr

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(George Carlin - I think..)

This reminds of the tale of Sisyphus, forced to perform a task that never ends as he rolls a stone up a mountain, only to have it roll down again so that he has to start over and over again for eternity.

In this case, it's Adam, trying to put up or take down the inflatable Santa and his reindeer and sleigh on his roof, only to have to put it up or take it down again.. and again.. and again...

This is done with an app on my phone that turns ordinary images into "Tiny Planets".. Fascinating!

Walked out of a clients home and saw this family of mushrooms in the front yard. Grabbed my Fujifilm with a vintage Canon lens and captured these images.

Fujifilm X-E2S

Canon 50mm f1.4 SSC

10mm Meike extension tube

A day in the life of a guy with a camera, wandering in the garden.

This flower is a Hosta, in some parts of the world it is known as Plantain Lilies.