MACRO MONDAY (15/05/10)

Yes I know it’s Saturday but Macro Saturday doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

We went out first thing for a hobble across the moor. No Lapwings, no Curlew, nothing and even at a quarter to six the light was very harsh. Gave it up as a bad job and went out with the macro lens. Something I should play with more often. If nothing else it cuts down on the leg work and weight. Before we get into all that here are a couple of pictures shot yesterday morning.

Whitby Pier Heads.

Beach Huts…….I keep being drawn back to these but never get an image that satisfies. Will have a go in the rain…No, have had a go in the rain, they do look different. They look like wet beach huts.

Back to the macro and as many opportunities for misidentification as there are photographs, have fun, give me a good kicking one day it will sink in……………….Maybe!

   A fall at the first fence………….Heeelp!

  Dandelion…………No problem here.

I’ll have a crack at this one………Flesh Fly?

  Needle Fly……….It may be! I have reservations as it’s head is covered in pollen and they are not supposed to eat, it may have had a crash I suppose.

    Daisy…………I’m on safe ground here.

                  I suspect this is an Alder half way between bud and leaf………….Please don’t take my word for it.

       This is new growth on a Leylandi, I pushed the gamma slider too far but quite liked the effect on a tree I dislike.   

All the above macros were shot with a 35mm macro lens stuffed onto a 2 x teleconverter hand held at 400 ISO aperture wide open at f7 (with the converter on). This Chaffinch I noticed whilst writing the blog the first I have seen around here. Knee deep in them in Kielder Forest!

  Almost forgot I have a joke…New to me.

‘There is good in everybody if you look, even paedophiles slow down when driving past schools.’

That’s all for today and all the best.