Another flower macro shot from my session with my wife’s Valentine’s Day flowers…
Archive for the ‘Macro’
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…