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I went super macro today and got silly close to a few things in the garden. I liked the colours in this abstract shot of the honeysuckle, I then worked my way around the garden, I particularly like the stinging nettles…I will revisit these before Debbie rips them out.
We used to have great bushes of lavender but we had to pull it all out at the start of the year as it had become very woody and overgrown…we gained another quarter of garden by removing it ;-). We did get some new lavender which is potted rather than
From the “Who knew this would look any good” school of flower photography. I mean, who turns an image of a sunflower black and white really? I took an infra-red photo of a dandelion seed head some time ago which had a similar effect and I said at the time I’d do
Back in the garden for some more macro photography and I saw this honey bee on the Echinacea. I got a similar shot of a hoverfly on the Echinacea earlier in the year.
I think it would be fair to say, I was a bit short of inspiration for today’s photograph.
I’ve been a bit obsessed by the echinacea in the garden. The whole flower doesn’t interest me much (although it does smell nice), but it’s various growing stages (see this earlier shot and this later super macro shot) up close are quite fascinating…and kind of spooky/evil 😉
You find some interesting subjects when you’re looking around the garden for something to photograph. This is in the bird bath which Debbie cleans regularly, but it always get’s dirty really quickly. I have no idea why there would be this build up of bubbles under this feather, but it
I popped on a couple of accessories onto the macro lens today and was rather pleased with the results. This has a 36mm extension tube along with the Raynox M250 magnifying lens on the Nikon 105mm macro. This is a hoverfly on an echinacea and the petals make a great
Debbie’s been promising me big things about this flower, she keeps telling me what it is…something like an Eckythump…or something 😉
Just a quick shot of our old cat Badger, it’s been a while since I last included him in the 365, so today seemed a good day to get up and close to him…which he didn’t enjoy!
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