Unknown fly

Found in my front yard this evening. There really is a whole other world once you start doing macro photography.

The downside to taking this kind of picture is that you don't notice someone walking down the street, and all of a sudden there's a guy right behind you while your face is down in the grass behind a camera. Makes for an interesting situation, anyway.



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What a coincidence

From browsing the photos posted at fredmiranda.com and photography-on-the.net, jumping spiders seem to be one of the most common subjects for macro photography. I'd never seen one before, until I was out poking around with my new lens today, and ran across one. He stayed still for quite awhile, which was nice.

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The beginning

I recently received a macro lens for my camera as a wedding gift from my fiancee. This blog is intended to be a record of my experiments in macro photography. Hopefully there will be some improvement in my photographs over time, but that remains to be seen.















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This is one of the first pictures I took with this lens. The dragonfly macro shot is rather cliche, but it'll work for now. I'm sure I can come up with more interesting subjects in the future.