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| During a shopping trip with my wife, I got bored and started snapping closeups, fortunately nobody tried to stop me here in M&S |
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| Having a dedicated macro lens (Tamron 90mm SP) for my 7D allows me to take some amazing close up shots, but this one is more art than nature |
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| A macro of a feather illuminated for an abstract view |
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| I have always loved these sort of shots, and now with my Minolta 7D and the same lens as above, it was an easy proposition to capture this shot. I took quite a few but the ones with the flash worked out brightest and most colourful, although I did have the white balance switched to a fluorescent to get the rich blues. Now of course I'm after a good flash with high speed synchronisation |
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| What strange landscape is this, taken from a plane over a frozen forest perhaps, or is it the bonnet (hood in American) of my car on a windy frozen morning, here's a clue, no plane was used to take this photo - nature is even more amazing in closeup |
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| The same tree viewed through multiple rain drops - from the inside of a windscreen |
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| I actually bought this Lily specifically for photography, I took a variety of shots, this close-up, with tweaked colour curves is quite abstract and interesting I think |
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| August 2007 was a bit of a damp squib as far as summer went in the UK, but I did some lovely shots of dandelion clocks caught on thistles |
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| I saw this bee hanging by just one leg from this plant, it stayed there for quite some time, presumably resting |
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| I put a few crystals of sugar down and sure enough a short while later the ants had found the treat and were busy taking it back to their nest. I converted this to monochrome as I think it gives the image a more worker feel. Look in the hard nature link in Nature for more a disturbing view of ants |
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| It was a very windy day with quickly changing light conditions, bad conditions for macro shooting but the scene which confronted me just required to be shot, so I ramped my 7D up to ISO1600 kept the aperture as open as possible for a fast shutter speed but closed for more depth of field given the movement in the scene and managed to grab a few amazing shots of this spider trapping this cranefly, really amazing. The cranefly struggled desperately to get free and managed to get its wings and all but two of its legs free in a mamouth 30 minute struggle, but its fate was sealed as the spider crawled all over its captive trapping it in a web |
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| This is a mummified daddy-long-legs (Cranefly - Tipula paludosa), captured in a spider web |
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| Not quite a pet, but I like a few small spiders in the house as they clean up other insects |
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| The small drops of rain on this leaf acted like a magnifying glass, beautiful |
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| Macro photography is my favourite type, and technology of course is a hobby, so here is a logical conclusion of the two |