Post your best Macro shots

[Jayson]

Pat, I have a lovely nest in my front porch that I get to look at every day. Crazy how fast these guys grow. I missed 4 days and they have feathers and barely fit in there. Mommy must be feeding them worms laced with steroids.

Here is a trip to the backyard photo. This is a 7 shot stack of a what I believe to be a baby hover fly.



Here is a size view of him digging into a dandelion. Not the best picture, but there for scale. I was trying to get them having a snack but the dog kept trying to lick my face and apparently that scares tiny flies.

[Joel Eade]

Fritillary and Cone flower

1D MKIV
Canon 180mm macro
ISO 1250
f/14
1/1600
Hand held

[Joel Eade]

Another image of the same butterfly

[Joel Eade]

Dragonfly (sorry, don't know the genus and species)

1D MKIV
Canon 180mm macro
ISO 1250
f/14
1/250
Hand held

[Joel Eade]

One more from yesterday's fun with macro.....

[Jayson]

Stopped by a clover field a couple days ago.

[Joel Eade]

Found this big red ant on the mouth of a gatorade bottle.....not sure what it is really? It was hard to get a shot in focus because he kept going around and around the bottle top

1DMKIV
Canon 180mm macro + 1.4 TC
ISO 1600
f/7.1
1/500

[DavidEccleston]

A Velvet Ant (which is really a wasp) (http://www2.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef442.asp). Never heard of it before. Neat!

[Joel Eade]

A Velvet Ant (which is really a wasp) (http://www2.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef442.asp). Never heard of it before. Neat!

That's right....I looked it up too. It's a female wasp (no wings so it looks like a big ant) of the genus Multillidae. The male can fly. Apparently this pretty lady can deliver a very nasty sting too. Glad I didn't get to experience that

[Joel Eade]

Green Tree Frog....this is a stack of 13 images

1D MKIV
Canon 180mm Macro
ISO 800
f/7.1
1/200
Used a small LED panel for light