It will be interesting to see if this thing really works. I have a bumper on my iPhone which will probably raise the lens too far off the camera and my guess is any iPhone case will change focal length on this lens. Worth $15 to find out.

Photojojo’s site: Easy Macro Cell Lens Band.

Alan Taylor over at the Atlantic has put together another excellent collection of images. Many of these are made by attaching DSLRs to microscopes although a few look to have been made with regular macro lenses. Spectacular images of a world within our world.

[via Gary Sharp]

PetaPixel has a nice post on how to shoot water drops on a glass or acrylic surface so that objects placed underneath the surface seem to be contained in each drop. This would be a fun setup and shot to try with different objects and various kinds of lighting.

Mt. Everett, Massachusetts. This lichen was on the side of a hut on the Appalachian trail on the northeast side of Mt. Everett.

Incredible idea, beautiful macro photography.

The Nikon International Small World Photomicrography Competition recently announced its list of winners for 2010. The competition began in 1974 as a means to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope. Peering into the small worlds of animal, plants and minerals using many techniques and different instruments, this year’s entries brought us images of crystalline formations, fluorescent body parts, cellular structures and more, valuable for both their beauty and insight.

Alan Taylor at The Big Picture is one of the best image editors in the business. This collection is first rate as are almost all of his collections at the site.

Sharon, Connecticut. The Sharon Audubon Center has over twenty injured raptors that we love to visit from time to time. The bald eagle is magnificent as are the great horned owls.

This summer, on our way to the raptor cages we passed a small butterfly garden and given that we had some rented camera gear with us we figured we’d spend some time there.

This was shot, handheld, with a rented Canon 1D IV and my macro lens. I thought this camera might be too big and heavy for me but in fact, it’s a joy to use and feels quite good in hand. The images it can produce in the right hands (not mine) are stellar and I can see why it’s been a popular camera.

This first batch was taken this winter with a Canon G11 camera on a hike in the Woodbury Audubon Center, Woodbury, Connecticut.

The last two were taken this winter with a Canon G11 in the Pine Swamp beaver pond near Cornwall, Connecticut.

Looks like a Russian or Greek site. Amazing work.

[via Greg Newman]

Spectacular macro photography.