Your *amazing* macroscopic plant detail photos.

[Michaelangelica]

I used to love all this and had macro lenses, bellows, 'the whole catastrophe'-(zorba)

I could have waited for digital photography and someone to give me $20,000

I remember once showing a slide (remember those?- I have huge boxes of them) of a Rosemary flower to a gardening group.

They all sad it had to be a wondrous new orchid.

 

Microscopes open our eyes.

[Ganoderma]

your right michael, they really do!!! got any digital copies/scans?

 

 

turtle, yes, isn't that fascinating!!!! there is a VERY good PDF about flavonoids. I find it so cool that plants are also able to absorb UV light and make patterns in it...presumably to attract bugs.

 

check out this link, its a good reference "book"

http://files.rushim.ru/books/mechanizms/the-science-of-flavonoids.pdf

[mynah]

Speaking of color, did y'all know about the secret flower patterns only visible in UV range? :)

 

A bees-eye view: How insects see flowers very differently to us | Mail Online

 

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_01/PrimroseDM_1000x390.jpg

Fascinating! Worth another thread, don't you think?

[Michaelangelica]

your right michael, they really do!!! got any digital copies/scans?

One day when my kids buy me a scanner

[Ganoderma]

Fascinating! Worth another thread, don't you think?

 

make one :) it is a truly fascinating world we live in!

 

 

 

Michael, C'mon ya lazy _______....its worth the money! you can probably find crappy ones for $50.......pretty please with a cherry on top?

 

all us internet strangers need you to spend real money to satisfy our want to see a photo.....ya know.

[Turtle]

gourd skin

[Michaelangelica]

make one B) it is a truly fascinating world we live in!

 

 

 

Michael, C'mon ya lazy _______....its worth the money! you can probably find crappy ones for $50.......pretty please with a cherry on top?

 

all us internet strangers need you to spend real money to satisfy our want to see a photo.....ya know.

 

i am pleased that there was no letter after lazy so i can interpret it anywy I like

You lazy darling

You lazy delightful person

You lazy countryman.

 

Unfortunately i am very lazy and, as you yanks predict, put a guy on a disabled pension and he gets even lazier (socialism the scourge of society)

$50 = 10 bottles of port; give me a break!

besides I want one of the new fangled digital jobs with unlimited depth of field.

1 in 50 of my old shots was worth showing

My life is too short to sort them all.

 

I will however put in a scanner request for a Christmas present :)

(Last year I got a tonne of hose **** for some poor farmer somewhere!)

As both my kids are presently unemployed (the scourge of socialism again) this may be difficult.

Warmest wishes,

M

[jab2]

I used to love all this and had macro lenses, bellows, 'the whole catastrophe'-(zorba)

Same here. Still have all my develop equipment for E6 also. Contacted Novoflex the other day to find out if one can convert their bellows from Minolta MD to Canon EF. Answer was that it would be cheaper to get a new bellows. For that price however, my EF 100mm f2.8 plus tubes do just fine, thanks. A two way focus rack are surely missed though. But then a bellows does look cool. :)

 

M, btw, do you still do slides? Since turning digital, I have often thought of doing the odd slide film (still has about 200 Fujichrome in freezer) for old times sake, yet never gets around to do it. Such a major schlep. Digital is so much easier. Just keep shooting, your bound to get a stunner, like the typewriter, monkey and the Shakespear play. B)

[Tormod]

Not "macroscopic" but this one turned out quite all right. My SLR is in the shop for service so my US trip is documented with a regular point-and-shoot digital camera.

 

Don't know the name of this plant so feel free to help me name it. Photo was taken in North-East Ohio around the Kirtland area.

 

[mynah]

Nice pic, but hard to tell without seeing more of the plant and knowing some details about flower structure. Is it a shrub or herbaceous, what are the leaves like, etc? Was it cultivated or growing in the wild?

[Tormod]

They were growing around the entrance of the visitor's center at a state park in Ohio.

 

They look like this:

 

[freeztar]

They were growing around the entrance of the visitor's center at a state park in Ohio.

Since it was growing at the entrance of the park, it could be an ornamental. It doesn't strike me as any plant I know, but a shot of the leaves might be helpful.

 

Actually, maybe they are spent purple coneflowers?

 

[Turtle]

Maple leaf in Fall

[Turtle]

More of the leaf-over-lens-pointed-at-Sun technique. :)

 

corn leaf

[Turtle]

Here is a corn leaf again, but this time a 1200 dpi digital scan. :)

 

corn leaf

[freeztar]

Here is a corn leaf again, but this time a 1200 dpi digital scan. :)

 

corn leaf

 

Stomatic!

[Ganoderma]

its funny, my slr (with the lenses i have) cant do that super macro close up to the sun tek you have, but my cheap P&S can do it fairly well.... for now i will just star at your super closeups!

 

 

 

some more pics from the "park".

 

 

 

 

Euphorbia

 

 

these were open great last night, but pics didnt turn out...i went back today and they are all wilting (very hot today!)

 

 

i love watching the pigments go like this. reminds me or fireworks

 

river seeds

 

 

mimosa pudica

 

 

Egg plant flower petal showing nice vein colour.

 

flower buds

 

Koelreuteria formosana seeds developing. incredibly beautiful tree when in bloom!

 

 

funky leaves with non green pigments galore! i think this is Croton.