Odds And Sods In Macro

Our annual winter visitor is back, like last year, only one, a huge grasshopper.  I’m always caught unawares by this monstrous critter as he lurks around in the most unlikely places; this time he was there glaring at me when I opened the patio door. Eyeball to eyeball we were; fortunately, he was on the other side of the glass.

He was captured and spent the day in the grandchildren’s bug box, ready for later macro photography of subjects like grasshoppers and fungi. I took two photographs before he leaped into the garden.

The tiny fungi pushing through the lawn caught my eye, sparking curiosity about these small, often overlooked creatures in nature.

Speckled eggs are my very favourite thing; I could snack on them all day, but I don’t.  They’re also small, and their colourfulness drew my eye, and I had the Macro lens on, so they became the subject of my last photograph.

Macro photography tests me to the limits of patience, endurance, and frustration.  In bad light, with slow shutter speeds at f/32 or f/2.2, I manually focus, use my tripod, and a timed shutter release-techniques that can help you overcome similar challenges.

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