What is Macro Photography?
For those of you scratching your noggins wondering what macro photography is, it is extreme close up photography. It is seeing the world from an amazing point of view.
If you have ever seen the movie Honey I Shrunk the Kids, remember how awesome it was seeing the world from the point of view of the kids when they were super small. Macro photography is basically seeing the world from the view of a shrunken person and it is awesome.
I got a set of extension tubes in the mail today and I was excited to try them out with my 100mm macro lens because that meant my lens was now going to be super macro.
Dandelions have pollen?
Well, I learned something new today. I never knew that they had pollen, but now it makes sense why bees are always on them.
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I wish that bees would cooperate and be good models and face the camera instead of sticking their butts at me the whole time.
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Too bad I didn't have any smoke to make the bees chill out because they really don't like cameras within an inch or two of them when they are playing in the pollen. They probably thought I was paparazzi or something.
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Even the ants like the dandelion pollen for some reason. Either that or it was stuck. It was trying to back out of there for a while and I got sick of waiting for it to get its head out, so I think it had its head stuck in the dandelion. This is what this ant gets for wandering away from the line.
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Close up flowery goodness
With spring starting, that means that our flowers are starting to bloom. The only ones that have bloomed so far are these awesome blue and purple ones.
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They are just little tiny flowers right now, but in a few weeks, they should be a lot bigger.
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Ant down!!
So for my last photo, the story behind this one is pretty funny. When I was taking pictures of the bee, I noticed an ant walking on the little stone edge of the flower garden. It was carrying this little dead ant.
I am not sure if it was carrying it back to the colony to give it a proper burial or if it planned on eating it, but when I moved in with the camera and my shadow got in its path, the ant dropped the dead one and took off. So here lies "Antie" the lone ant. May he rest in peace.
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