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Archive for the ‘Macro’


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Another flower macro shot from my session with my wife’s Valentine’s Day flowers…

Things are looking rosy

Before my wife tossed out her (now-)wilting Valentine’s Day flowers, I thought I’d do a bit of macro work with them…

Climber

A Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonius) butterfly…

Solitude

Just a little reminder of this past summer…

What’s the buzz?

Another shot from the Butterfly Pavilion — this time of some honeybees in an indoor display case…

Just resting a bit…

Now that I’m armed with an Olympus ring light, I took “the pup” to the local butterfly place so she could wander around, and I could test my gear out on the locals. Here’s one of the better results (50mm macro lens and 2x teleconverter)…

It really is a small world, after all…

So maybe this year we could resolve to start taking better care of it?

Bee fly

It’s not built for looks, obviously…

Seriously yellow

Just a pretty flower I took a shot of at The Arboretum at Flagstaff, outside of Flagstaff, Arizona…

Curly Q

I thought that for a little macro experimenting, I’d use a bit of local color as a subject. Here’s a mountain mahogany seed — in all its twisty, fuzzy glory…