“The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago.”—Ansel Adams
This week my assignment for the 52 photo challenge was macro photography. The idea is to showcase a subject larger than it is in real life—an extreme close-up. These are my favorite types of photos and I was excited to spend some time looking for things to zoom in on.
I spent the morning at Folsom Lake with the dragonflies and then finished up with a few shots in my backyard. I alternated between my macro lens and my 14-150mm lens. Let me know which shot you like best and have a fantastic week!
Bonus lake photo:
- Photos were taken with an Olympus OM-D and edited with ON1 Photo RAW
- If you want to join the 52 Photo Challenge, you can find all the information at nicolesy.com
52 Photo Challenge
Week 1: Bokeh
Week 2: Silhouette
Week 3: Black and White
Week 4: Motion Blur
Week 5: Texture
Week 6: Framing
Week 7: Leading Lines
Week 8: Negative Space
Week 9: Patterns
Week 10: Symmetry
Week 11: Green
Week 12: Sidelight
Week 13: Sense of Scale
Week 14: One Lens
Week 15: Series
Week 16: Flat Lay
Week 17: Behind the Scenes
Week 18: Water
Week 19: Blurry Foreground
Week 20: Unique Perspective
Week 21: Shadow
Week 22: Food
Week 23: Abstract
Week 24: Reflection
Week 25: Contrast Color
Week 26: Think in Threes
Week 27: Starburst
Week 28: Low Perspective
Number 3 this week. It feels like they are watching me.
You can’t see how creepy they really are in person until you zoom in! They have such odd faces and eyes.
I know, right?
All the shots are stunning.
10 is my favourite 👌
That’s my neighborhood cat that’s adopted me. We are best buds and he’s just so pretty.
Hevis gorgeous !
I love them all, especially the fly photos! ❤️
Thanks! Aren’t they super creepy when you look at them close?
Not as creepy as a Praying Mantis! Those things really creep me out! 💀
Love them all but the Lady Bug and the Cat, just make me happy ❤️
Who doesn’t love a ladybug and a cat? Glad you loved them. Thank you!
Gorgeous! I like them all, and especially 1 and 7.❤️
Thank you! Those are my favorites too.
Love the dragonflies. Amazing how you can get a clear photo as usually they are moving so fast. Yay for the kitty, of course, but I really like # 8 with the little bee looking up at you. 🙂
Thank you! Yes, they are super fast but I was lucky that it was slightly windy and they were hanging on for dear life! My pumpkin patch is filled with bees this year. It makes me so happy.
Wonderful enchanting closeups of the dragonflies from 1 to 5. Lucky timing to capture them at rest – beautiful shots! 🙂
Thanks! It was slightly windy and they were clinging to the waving plants. #4 was hovering in the air. It was a thrill to capture that shot (after taking about a hundred of them in the air all blurry). I was so captivated that I didn’t hear a truck pull up behind me and when the owner’s dog barked I about jumped out of my skin! I love how photography can fully engage my senses.
Excellent work. Thank you for sahring.
I’m happy you liked them! Thank you.
Gorgeous shots. Thank you.
Thank you!! I’m so happy you liked them.
Get one of those dragonflies flying and I’ll be really impressed! I liked the ladybird, that green and red is a lovely contrast.
I did! #4 was taken in flight. He was hovering for about 10 seconds and I managed to get that lucky shot. It was thrilling! The ladybird didn’t have any spots, which made the contrast even greater I think.
Honestly these are stunning!!
That’s a huge compliment! Thank you.
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Thank you!
Thank you for the nature escape! Beautiful and much cooler than trotting about in the scorching Sonoran.
It was just after sunrise and already about 80 degrees but with a slight breeze off the lake water. I’m glad you enjoyed these shots.
80 sounds heavenly. 😊 It’s supposed to reach 116 today. 😢 I love your beautiful work!
Yikes!!! Thank you.
I love the dragonfly photos 🙂
Thanks! I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon a bush covered in them. Made my day.
7 and 10 are my favorite
I had a feeling they would be 🙂 Jake continues to be such a great neighborhood cat and so darn photogenic. I read that seeing a ladybug without spots is a sign of impending pregnancy (not me!), but I’m doing a maternity photoshoot for one of my favorite people on Thursday and I’m taking it as a positive sign.
I saw a lady bug with spots, any premonition on that?
If you spot a ladybug it’s supposed to be good luck. Now, if one lands on you, that’s even better! Count the number of spots to predict the number of months until your greatest wish comes true. Now I need to walk around and wait for ladybug with spots to land on me!
Ooo, nice 🙂 I like 4 and 7. And 10, because cat.
#4 was caught in the air! I was thrilled by that shot. I’m so glad you like these. Thank you.
I’ll be back, but probably not tonight. Morning then.
You are always welcome here 🙂
These are all amazing – loved 8&9 though. And the lake – I do love water reflections
Those two photos were taken in my backyard, #9 is a weed most people hate but that I find quite lovely. I’m a sucker for water reflections too and the sky was being extra beautiful and cooperative.
Well, they do say a weed is only a flower in the wrong place. In New Zealand lupins are seen a nuisance weeds – here in the UK, we cultivate them. I think they are a wonderful flower.
Excellent micron photography. All are excellent photos. I like mostly all.
Thank you so much!
I love the face on #7….but it’s hard to choose just one favorite! 💞💞💞
I love that you can’t choose! Thank you. That ladybug was pretty darn cute, but oh so tiny. I couldn’t see its face when I took the shot.
Gorgeous photos as always, Bridgette. My favourites are #4 because that shot of the dragonfly in flight, legs lightly tucked under him, is incredible. The detail is wonderful—also, #7, the ladybird photo; I’ve never seen a ladybird without spots. Finally, I had to go with #10 – Jake is adorable and as for those green eyes … . I like the photo of the lake, too. Much love to you, my friend. Xx 😘🌹💕
I’m so happy you loved so many of these! I was so lucky to have such wonderful subjects to photograph. I appreciate your kindness ❤️
You have nailed the macros Bridgette. These are all so good and to get the flying Dragonfly is exceptional 🙂
Thanks! I’m pretty proud of these.
love the dragonflies, that plump little ladybird, and the inquisitive bee 🙂
I’m so happy you like them! Thank you.
Oh excellent but has to be #4 – how did you manage that?
It was pretty windy and he sort of got stuck flying in place for a moment. It was a quick lucky shot!
These are stunning! Especially that third dragonfly picture!
I’m so glad you liked them! Thank you.
All amazing photos, Bridgette, but the dragonflies are my favorites.
Mine too! I was so lucky to capture them. Thank you for the kindness.
Beautiful photos! I love the photos of the dragonflies!
Thank you! There were so beautiful and kind of weird. Fun to photograph for sure.
Dragonflies are so cool.
They really are!