Some indoor macros

 Just playing with my macro stuff, trying to work out a good portable light set up using my flash on a ball and socket head on a bracket. A bit loose but doable. The images are a bit underexposed though prior to editing with Snapseed on my phone. 

Pellitory of the Wall

There is lots of this nettle relative growing on Richmond Castle, Yorkshire

 

Little Pink Aliens

I got a new microscope (well, a secondhand one) and I've been trying it out on my old slides. This is an image of a section of corn showing the phloem and xylem cells. The image was made by holding my Canon compact up the eyepiece, hence the circular image.

And this is an image of fern sporangia, cropped to create a rectangular image.

Cabbage

I photographed this cabbage for a college project exploring b/w photography. This is styled after Edward Weston, my favourite photographer.
Taken using my Canon 30D with the nifty fifty, lit by a desk lamp on the right.

Having a bad hair day!

And you think YOU'RE having a bad hair day!

My son Matthew's cress plant from his school, my hand made ugly mug from MY school, in a fun collaboration.

Wheat

I got down low for a shot of the stems of wheat in the field.

Joseph's Coat

A close up of a flower head on my Spiraea bush in the garden last night.

30D + 100mm macro lens, 270EX flashgun on c-bracket

First flower to open on a Pelargonium which I created by crossing two others.
Canon 10D + 50mm lens

Hot looking Aloe

One of my Aloes began flowering. The stem is a whopper compared to the baseball-sized plant!

Wood Avens

Also known as Herb Bennet, this is a wild flower in the Rose family  that seems to like my garden! Its a sprawling low growing plant with these tiny yellow flowers that are less than the size of a penny. These are follwed by seedheads that are like burrs that catch on your socks as you walk through the grass.
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Down amongst the Dandelions

Pretty much a guessed shot in my garden earlier. Not strictly macro but I was pretty close to those Dandelion clocks!

I just held the Panasonic FZ7 down low so it would be looking upwards through the dandelions and fired off a shot.

1/400 at f5.6
ISO 80
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Salutations from the Cactus World!

This is a 1:1 shot of new stems on my Schlumbergera 'Christmas Cactus'. Each stem is a mere half inch long!
10D + 100mm macro lens at 1:1
Lit using a wind up LED torch (long exposure) 
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Reaching for the Light

This is a close up of one of my house plants (a Peperomia), handheld with my Canon 10D + 100mm macro lens.