Spring Spider

THE BLOG IS BACK!!!

Been a little preoccupied over the past few months and have hardly posted anything here but I am now back, camera in hand and have some catching up to do.

Can't believe we're almost 3 months in to 2013 already and spring is meant to be happening although the recent weather seems to have other ideas!

Anyway, I found this little critter on a house plant and he (or she!) kindly posed for some shots. Used the Macro Lens Adapters to take these.





As usual, click on the images to enlarge

Take Your Pick

OK, so it's been a really busy month for me and the blog has suffered with no posts at all since the start of April. So, to get it back on track what better way than to post a random macro shot!

Wireless

Wireless is everywhere these days from tv remotes to keyboards and now even wireless energy transfer.

If you were born around the end of the 1970s or start of the 80s then you, like me will remember when a lot of TV's didn't even have remote controls (or not even colour screens in some cases!). How times have changed!

Cherry Picking

No particular theme to this picture. Was just enjoying some black cherries the other day and had the camera to hand so took a few pictures.



As usual, click on the image to enlarge

Music For Love

OK, so I had been planning on a love / romance based photograph for today (Valentine's Day) but I've been too busy to come up with anything :(

So not to disappoint, here is a photograph from my archive entitled - Love the Mixtape

Remembrance Day 2010

A quick post to show my support for Remembrance Day.

Lest we forget

Spider Food

Taken in my garden yesterday evening - A quick catch of a spider tucking in to an unfortunate bug that managed to get itself caught up in the web.

Macro Drive

More experimentation with the Macro Lens Adapters.

I really like the depth of field in this close up picture of an external hard drive.

Starry Eyed Surprise

I have been meaning to try out a close up of a human eye since I got the Macro Lens Adapters. I know that getting the light right can be difficult with reflections etc to contend with and wanted to try out something a little different.

I quite like the effect you get from ring flashes so started thinking about making one. After a bit of thought, I purchased some bright white LED lights from a well known auction website. I then mounted these on an old bit of ply board with a cut out for the camera lens and soldered it all up. I thought I'd start small with just 8 LEDs but will be attempting some more ambitious LED projects soon (I have another 92 LEDs to use up after all!).

Here is one of my shots with the DIY ring flash / light.



By the way, it is my bloodshot eye in the picture - Must have been a heavy one the night before :-)

Shuffle Up and Deal

I have made an adaptation to my DIY macro-light which I used with the old Canon Powershot S2 to try out with my Canon Speedlite on the dSLR. I basically used a bigger bit of tin foil and added an elastic band!

I was just wondering what to test it out on when I saw a pack of cards on the side.

Here is a shot of my camera with the hi-tech device attached and the results of a couple of test shots. The second one really captures the action of the shuffle and the merging of the cards (click to enlarge as always).

Product Shots

A while back I did a load of product shots for the Beautiful You website.

It is nice to see that they have now started using some of them.

Is Spring Finally Here?

After what seems like a very long winter, is spring now finally here? The flowers below seem to think so! It has started to warm up and we've even had a few days of sunshine in the south of England so it all looks promising :-)

The photos below were taken in my back garden at home. The first 2 were shot using the Macro Lens Adapters.

Hope the sun is shining wherever you are...

Website Plug

Thought I would have a go at some more black and white photography of everyday objects.

The plug photo below was taken with the macro adapters and then I ran a high pass filter in post processing.

What Could This Be?

Random object that I was given as it would make a somewhat interesting photo.

Any ideas what it could be? Answers on a postcard...or just leave a comment!

The Art of Folding

I always find it strange that this photo is my most popular flickr picture. I'm not sure why as it's not a very good photograph so I guess it must be because origami is popular on the net. With this in mind, I thought I would take a couple of pictures of some other modular origami that I knocked up the other evening.

State of the Union

Another photo from my archives. Taken using the macro light

Must Have Gadget

I reloaded my main computer last week and am now finally getting around to creating a better filing system for my 10,000+ photos.

As with all tidying, you come across things which were long forgotten and for me these are random photos of random items!

This is a macro shot of a Bang & Olufsen Beocom 2 taken on 16 December 2005 with my trusty Canon Powershot S2. Over 4 years later and you still see these phones on TV shows all the time so it must be a bit of a degign icon.

Watch this space for other old photos from my collection.

Water Art

I hope that you all had an excellent Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year celebrations.

I have had a bit of time off work over the festive period and after watching this interesting video I thought I would have another go at photographing water droplets.

You can see my first attempt earlier in the year here.

I took so many photos so it has taken a while to trawl through them but here are the 3 that I think came out best.







If you fancy having a go at this then there is plenty of help at hand on the web. I found that this video was pretty helpful.

Lady In Red

......This lady is dead!

Found this dead Coccinellidae (ladybird) at home.



Thought I would capture it on camera as I've done previously with:-

The Fly


and Spiderman Part 3

Vitamin Shot

With the weather getting colder and Swine Flu still hanging around, it might be time for a vitamin shot!