Decided to go on a photo promenade near the old tree yesterday without taking a photo of the tree itself. The easiest way to do that is to only shoot with the extension tubes and you can see of those photos here.
Showing posts with label macro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label macro. Show all posts
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Monday, July 13, 2015
I titled the top photo whateveritis when I posted it on flickr. But if my flickr friend Marcus is correct, this is Vit Kattost. Malva pusilla Sm. Small mallow in English, but the Swedish name wins because if you direct translate it back to English it means Tiny Cat Cheese. Anyway it is on the endangered list so it is a good thing that the farmer at the Nödesta farm, Janne decided to raise the crop here in front of the smithy that I show you every now and then. And no I don't know if the crop is useful at all.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Out chasing that Finnish rock band in the wet grass. Try saying Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata a few times. We call this tiny (3 to 5mm long), ladybug Tjugotvåprickig nyckelpiga.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
I have been spending a lot of time shooting macro photos lately. Beetles, bugs and bees and what have you. This was a bit of a surprise. Grass stalks that had been tied together by another type by grass. I wonder what knot that is.
Sunday, June 7, 2015
I was sitting on the veranda enjoying a cup of coffee when this four-spotted chaser flew in and landed on my leg. It sat there for a while resting so I had time to grab the camera and go macro on it. Tricky to set the focus but somehow I managed to get this photo of it's impressive eyes. Bigger here.
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
I guess it could be hard to see what this is at a quick glance. Both pictures show macro photos of young pine cones. Found near the old tree.Saturday, May 30, 2015
This is a Gurkspindel,(Araniella cucurbitina). Cucumber green spider. It is 4 to 6 millimeter long. I noticed it in the web as I was out shooting photos of ladybugs (see yesterdays post).
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Nyckelpiga is the Swedish name for Ladybug. They are fun to photograph, but it's not very easy to get a good result. I used all three extension tubes and the nifty fifty for these two photos. It is impossible to shoot with the auto focus on, and tricky in general to find the correct settings. I shot these hand held sitting on the not so dry grass and was attacked by a bunch of ants during the shoot! I have read up about macro stacking and I will try that technique next time to get more depth of field. I found the ladybugs just a few meters from the old tree so I will be back here very soon.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Forget-me-not. Förgätmigej in Swedish. They really are hard to forget these tiny colorful flowers.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Using my new extension tubes lately I have been spending a lot of time crawling around on grassy fields. You have to go low down to spot the tiny plants growing everywhere. This herb is called Mandelblomma. Mandel means Almond in Swedish and the flower smells a bit like almond. The English name is meadow saxifrage. It is a very tiny flower, just a few millimeters wide. It groves on a little hill side not far from the old tree. I didn't know the name of it so I asked my blogging friend Lasse who came to the rescue.Sunday, May 3, 2015
A yellow Forsythia flower against a clear blue sky. It grows next to the path that leads to the old tree. Found the "Prästkrage" while taking some photos at a construction site in Handen. The red flowers on the third photo are called Rosenrips. This one grows at a bike stand near the pedestrian tunnel that will take you to the Rudan nature reserve in Handen, it was a tricky shoot at it was very windy. And as I got permission from some of you to shoot a second Sakura photo here it is. All photos taken with the help of my extension tubes.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
I took a walk at Kapp-Ekeby byväg (byväg means farm road), a couple of days ago. A rural landscape just outside Västerhaninge. There used to be two farms in this little village, one was called Sandviken, but they were abandoned back in 1877. All that remains visible today is the old road. But if you look closely you can find remains from the Iron Age here so this is a place where people lived for a very long time. On this visit I decided to look for signs of Spring and this was the result. Top photo shows a Styvmorsviol. Second snap is a Svalört. To get this close I used an extension tube and the trusted pancake lens. And I might have to go back as I lost yet another lens cap!
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Glory-of-the-snow. But I like the Swedish name better. Vårstjärna. That translates to Spring Star. Originally a plant from Turkey but today it grows wild at Bergdalen in Tungelsta and it is another sign of Spring.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
A winter windflower is always a good sign of Spring. After a few cold days we are having more Spring like weather this weekend. A blue sky and around 12 C as I'm typing this.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Arrived home after a sunny bike ride just now. Decided to rest on the grass for a while. That is when this little bugger decided to check out my hand. In the background you can see my front door. I reckon it around two millimetre long, or short if you like.Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Three very different photos. A familiar logo, this time fenced in for some reason. A young girl rolling a cigarette at a cafe. And a macro photo of a butterfly that seemed to like me.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Theme Day. The color green. On the bike I suddenly noticed something green on one of my fingers. It was a cucumber spider. It turned out to be a very lazy spider because it stayed with me for a few kilometres!
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