Macro Photography

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I'm yet to see the peacock spider courting ritual. I've seen multiple males in close proximity, but never a male and a female. Will be sure to post a pic if I ever capture it!

Wow, great shots! Thanks for sharing

I really dig macro photography.

Destroyed bike part
http://i.imgur.com/L49xz.jpg
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Another destroyed bike part
http://i.imgur.com/Jovp4WU.jpg
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Part of a crystal
http://i.imgur.com/CG8uLmM.jpg
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Wasp in my car by goofykid, on Flickr


rolypoly wreckage crop by goofykid, on Flickr

Those slaters/pillbugs/rolypolys are fun to shoot! I got creative a while ago and made a sequence piece, showing the stages of uncurling.

What kind of camera/lenses do you have? All I have is a dinky little Sony point-and-shoot. And I'm horribly afraid of bugs. That's why most of the ones I shoot are deceased*

*of natural causes, not violence .

I have a Canon 400D SLR with a Tamron macro lens. When I get a better job I want to upgrade, once you start using an SLR it's hard to be satisfied!

I have a Minolta XG-M but I don't have any extra lenses for it. I looove the one it came with, though. My son got ahold of my K1000 and broke off some of the film loading parts.

Tegenaria gigantea - Giant House Spider
This one had a legspan of about 7 cm.

I cropped and resized the original photo.

Pretty body!

I love macro, of all styles it is almost certainly my favorite, here's some of my pics:

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I don't have a photo sharing website so these are links to the facebook database.
Constructive criticism is always welcome on my photography, and excuse the watemark, i was planning to publish the photo but never got to it.

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^^ Great colours, and I love the composition. I always struggle with cropping my photos to anything that isn't a "standard" size. I really need to get over that. It's not like I ever print them or anything.

I haven't done much macro photography yet this season. So far, an ant (and a dead bug) and a mosquito

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It's Summer in many parts of the world, has anyone been photographing bugs lately? Or anything else for that matter.

Here's a couple of my more recent shots.