Richard's Notes

Spectacular macro photography
Looks like a Russian or Greek site. Amazing work.
[via Greg Newman]

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NY Times Lens: In Microscopic Realm, Science Reveals Art
Spectacular macro photography.

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Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]

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Bryan makes this as simple as it can be. Very well explained. Everyone should try this although maybe not by a freeway and maybe on a day that’s not so windy. Great stuff.
Check out some of Bryan’s other videos on YouTube.

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Warren, Connecticut. I was going through some boxes of saved stuff (I have many, too many) and found a piece of The Berlin Wall that my friend David Darling brought back from Berlin for me in 1989 when it came down. If you don’t know much about The Wall you might explore the Wikipedia entry [...]

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The Big Picture has a fantastic set of photo micrographs: Peering into the micro world.
These were done with a scanning electron microscope. Dang, I gotta get me one of them there scanning electron microscopes, these are fantastic. Those pollen are killer amazing as is the surface of the black walnut leaf. Wow.

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25 Beautiful Macro Photography Shots
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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This is another experiment. I just built a slide show of my photographs up on flickr with the tag “Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM” with PictoBrowser. It took all of 30 seconds.
[via Michaela Hackner]

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New Preston, Connecticut. We were early for yoga class this morning and next door to the building the class is held in is a small herb garden. Anne rolled her eyes and groaned when I broke out the macro gear to see about a picture of this lavender plant before class started.
I didn’t know lavender [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. Two things that took me too long to learn about photography: overcast days can make for better color saturation and easier exposure setups, and flowers going by can be as interesting as flowers at their peak.
I’m still using a rented Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L macro lens and enjoying it.

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Warren, Connecticut. I rented the Canon 180mm f/3.5 L macro lens for a week and I have to say, it’s quite a nice lens for these types of shots. The longer (than 100mm) focal length makes for nice compression and the lens makes nice colors and beautiful bokeh. It’s a beast though so one really [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. My wife brings all the outside potted plants into our basement for the winter and now, just before she puts them out for the summer, there are lots of flowering plants leaning toward the big window in the basement. They’re hungry for light. Given that it’s breezy outside and difficult to take pictures [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. I found this maple leaf on a baby tree in the woods. Amazingly, the very small tree, only fifteen feet tall seems to be putting out full size leaves. Reminds me of a fourteen year old boy who hasn’t quite grown into his big feet and ears yet. This tree seems awkwardly out [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. Our ferns have been drying out and turning for a while now but today they seem to be at just the right state of translucency for the backlight of the sun to make them glow.
Note: I rented a Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L Macro to test out. I’m liking it quite a lot [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. I don’t know about you but I have jars, cans, and boxes of old nuts, bolts, and "junk" like this in my basement that I’ve both inherited from the pack rat we bought our house from and which I’ve collected over many years. I promised my wife that this is going to be [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. A friend and I got up early to do some landscape photography in early morning light but once out it was hard to resist putting on a macro lens and looking closely at weeds and flowers in that same light. This peppergrass is growing wild in what used to be a cornfield and [...]

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My flickr contact rosemary* has done it again and posted an outstanding macro of a stem with hairs on it with waterdroplets on the hairs.

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This is the first in a series of posts on camera gear that I use and tips on how to use it. There is a limited glossary and a list of resources at the end of this article.
While the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM is not the most expensive or highest end lens in [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. My friend Gary and I got up very early to catch the morning light at the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust which is right down the road from my house. After hiking around we set up in a small clearing near a bend in Bee Brook to do macro and [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. A lone dwarf yellow tomato escapes being caught in my macro lens’ bokeh sauce. A bowl of ripe, yellow plumb tomatoes is both a photographic and gustatory opportunity and I must say, I’ve taken full advantage of both.

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