I did get a couple of chances to use the Macro lens on my most recent trip. Here’s some Goldenrod.

Driving to Colorado meant that I had a bunch of lenses at my disposal for photographic adventures. So I had my macro lens in
some situations, and was able to discover that Colorado wildflowers are indeed beautiful.

This was taken in Golden Gate Canyon State Park, near Golden Colorado.

Hi all,

For Macro Monday, the Butterfly exhibit at the Como Zoo was a perfect use of my lens…

I haven’t experimented much with monochrome flower action, but this time, for this Macro Monday edition, I thought I’d give it a shot. I darkened the background, brightened the flower and went to the B&W conversion. I also cropped this to a square.

f/ 3.2
1/160th second
Iso 800
EF 100mm Macro Lens on Canon 7D

And here’s a bonus one:

f/ 3.5
1/200th second
Iso 800
EF 100mm Macro Lens on Canon 7D

This time I went for the classical 3:2 shot instead of cropping.

I have to admit that, in the absence of trips, I am taking these small trips into inner space with the Macro Lens and finding favor:

Today’s Macro Monday shows some raindrops on one of the flowers in the bush next to my apartment. I’d been hoping to get something with drops of water, in the
tradition of Chuck Wendig, and finally got my chance.

Dandelions live fast, die young, and leave a pretty corpse. Okay, not always leave a pretty corpse, as yellow flowers turn to white seeds, and blow away, leaving a stem and not much else. But as those seeds spread, the Dandelion slowly dies.

Like this one:

One of the fun things about the macro lens, like a magnifying glass, in that it produces images of the small, sometimes producing miniature worlds you never suspected existed.

There is a clump of moss on the culvert of the drain right outside my patio door. From afar, its a clump of green. Up close…