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A patch of tiny (1mm or less) cuboidal / spheroidal fungi with a tiny black hole in each one, no idea what they are, suggestions welcome as ever! My garden, Hertfordshire. Following up - thanks Dan and Henna for suggesting the ID!
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At it's core this is not a complicated photo. It's a stack of colored construction paper, arranged to follow the visible light spectrum. Believe it or not, beyond being a mashing of colored dye and paper pulp, this photo is actually pretty important to me.
In 2009, as a treat to myself, I bought what would become my favorite lens of all time; the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro Lens. While it felt nice to own a premium lens (the first and only one I owned for a very long time), what I loved about this lens wasn't it's construction or its reputation, but instead its ability to explore a side of photography that I hadn't been able to before. I loved getting in close—closer than you can with the naked eye—and seeing what the world around me was hiding.
I only had the lens for a couple years before I had to sell it, and ever since I've missed macro photography considerably. Recently I was able to buy a used, fully manual macro lens (the Laowa 100mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO) and I've been messing with it ever since. It lacks the construction and the convenience of the Canon, but it's sharper and even more powerful. For the first time in years I'm able to truly get back to exploring the world through macro photography, and I could not be more thrilled.
Carnival Candy Slime Mold (Arcyria denudata) - Contra Costa County, California, USA
I've been going ultra macro lately and photographing slime molds. This is the latest, it was a challenge to shoot handheld at this magnification but the slime mold wasn't going anywhere and I was able to get dialed in. Although the incredibly narrow depth of focus makes it quite challenging to capture the scene.
Lens: Laowa 25mm 2.5-5x ultra macro @ 5x @ f3.4
Number of shots: 128 @ 20um stepsize using an MJKZZ Qool Rail 250
Illumination: 4 Ulanzi L1 powerleds, custom diffuser
Edit: Lightroom C, Helicon focus, Photoshop CC, Lightroom C
Scene: Staged
on a mossy tree stump behind my house, Hertfordshire. Any suggestions welcome! Note the shiny gloop beneath the fruiting bodies themselves with tiny black dots in it - I assume this is part of the organism...
Each spore on these fruiting bodies is around 10 microns in diameter, and each 'strand' is therefore a similar dimension, or around a tenth that of a typical human hair.
Ultra-macro of a single bubble in a glass paperweight. Life size is approx 1 mm. Best looked at large.
Dolomède des marais
Very few Collembola about in my neck of the woods, I was hoping for a nice multi-patterned Dicyrtomina sp but found none. The only globular springtails were a few of these which I tentatively ID as Allacma fusca based on a photo posted by Marie a couple of days ago : ) You can see various interesting features, not least the unusually shaped bottom, as well as some bumps on the head and also the furcula which allows the springtail to catapult itself out of harm's way (the pointed object under the head of the springtail).
I shot this handheld today at sunset with my Casio and a reversed Pentax 50mm. Original size of this image is 2269X1718. The flower on the left is about 3mm across. It is one microblossom of about fifty that comprise a lilac-type flower. Sorry I don't know more about the flower.
The 50mm was wide open. I had to zoom the Casio a bit so the light coming through the 50mm filled the CCD. I was holding the lens about five inches away from the flower. It gives an extremely shallow dof with the edges of the petals being the only thing in focus. It is hard to estimate what a real macro ratio of this would be.
Dish soap in a glass, backside illuminated by an LED shining through blue, red, and green paper
Olympus 60mm + Raynox M 250
This is an extreme close-up of a mosquito whose scientific nomenclature is unknown, perched on a leaf. This photo was taken at night with a flash.
I brought magnolia twigs in from the cold and plunked them in a vase that sits in front of my living room table. A week or so later, the buds began to open. I took this picture using natural light and my dining room table.
Tarentule radiée - Radiated Wolf Spider