No blade of grass

The photo was taken with a Lensbaby Composer and the Lensbaby Macro kit.

The hands that protect the treasure within

white-flower

jasmineI see the same familiar flower everyday yet I really didn’t know much about it until I took a very close look.

There’s a hedge of jasmine that grows just outside our bedroom window. The flowers are so small, no more than an inch from the tip of one petal to the tip of the petal opposite it, that they really don’t make much of an impression unless one sees the flowers in clusters. I was cooking lunch earlier, waiting for one side of my fish and chives frittata to brown so I could flip it over to brown the other side, when I got restless…

Close-up photography: capturing details that often escape the naked eye

Most people, myself included, tend to use the terms close-up photography and macro photography interchangeably. But according to strict definitions, there is a difference. Close-up photography refers to taking magnified images; macro photography means close-up photography using macro lenses. The difference is really more apparent than real because the end result is the same. But, ... (more)

Bee courting Zinnia

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Six pesos

Traditional macro photography is defined as life-size or 1:1 magnification (Joseph Meehan in The Magic of Digital Close-up Photography). But there are ultra modern camera lenses that are capable of 5:1 magnification or more.

New leaves

Who says you can’t take great macro shots using a point-and-shoot digital camera? Sam took these photos of the sprouting leaves of the banaba tree in our garden using her Olympus MJU 410.