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G'day Kit Caruthers.

That's a negative perspective that you have there.

Some nice colour there Kit.
What camera do you use?

andyh wrote:
welp, the one i used for these shots was a cannon powershot something... can't remember the number. 550, maybe? it was an older one. i was mugged, though, so now i use a powershot sx130is.

kit carruthers wrote:
The colours are amazing. Digital cameras have come on a bit I suppose, I had one a while back but gave up bothering when phones started to get reasonable res cameras, it was a fuji finepix s5000 I think... the colour always seemed to be too rich, but those pic look spot on.
Did you have to edit them first?

andyh wrote:
i sometimes do a bit of editing, yeah.

Great pictures.

Ever heard of Lensbaby? They are so much fun to use! I have an older version but they've come out with some newer, different ones.
lensbaby.com/

My my main interest in photography is close up/macro. here are are few flora and fauna from our locality.



Bladder Campion by the river Swale.



Freddie catching a ride during hay timing on the farm.



Burn't tip orchid



Meadow Brown Butterflies in the act.



Common spotted orchids.



Rob, come for some crumbs whilst sat in the car.



Spring Gentians in upper Teesdale.



Mountain Everlasting in upper Teesdale, the English Eidel Wise.

Man, those are some nice snaps Kit!! You too, Apprentice!!

Is it me, or are robins getting cheekier. Had one come sit right on my spade while I was digging a hole not long ago as if to say "can you stop for a minute while I nab that worm"?

Ab Origine wrote:
I saw this really great documentary the other day where they conducted a study on the recent daily activities of robins in Nova Scotia and they seemed convinced that their scientific data confirmed and revealed that robins of that region have indeed upped their thug-life ante. I'm not sure if that carries over to the robins of the UK though.

phemohilia wrote:


Cheers.

I took this shot about twenty years ago whilst walking up Dale as we say, the upper reaches in Swaledale our local water.

app says its close up/macro, but really he is the size of a smurf.
nice pix man

batou wrote:


We came across these flowers on a field trip with a local warden.






And these wild strawberries in our local allotment.

I also love to play around with macro photography. I don't have a macro lens but I learned a little trick where you flip your lens around and hold it up to the camera. Focusing is tricky and you have to be careful not to get dust/debris inside the camera.

Before macro


After macro


Before


After


Macro love

Love the spider in the flower shot KB, if you take a pair of carboard tubes that slide inside each other, paint them matt black then turn your lens around and slide it insode one end you can get some superb photo's.
My macro world really took off when I bought a second hand Nikon Coolpix 950, many of these pictures here were taken with one, they are very good because you can swivel the main body and leave the screen upright for taking shots from above.

I still have her today, way better results than an SLR, my best shots were taken using an old Practika and a dedicated Zeiss close up lens, sadly I let it go for the tech, wished the hell I hadn't.



Here is one of a Blackthorn flower above and a Grass of Parnassus below, using the coolpix 950.

Beautiful photo's everyone. I might paint pic's of some of them.

Gilly wrote:
I would like that Gilly, paintings are much better than pictures I think, one can see the hand to eye in the flow, that technology could never match in my book.