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  1. Robert Watcher

    Wood Louse

    Visiting our friends this afternoon —— their grandchildren were busy in the back yard, collecting bugs and worms from under stumps and rocks. The kids were showing them to me and pulled out this absolutely minuscule little circle that they seemed to be aware was called a “potato bug”...
  2. Robert Watcher

    Bizarre Coloured Roses

    INDOOR MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY Our daughter gave Anne a couple of coloured roses from the craft show that she attended. They are sitting on our kitchen island, so while Anne was away this morning I put my adapted macro lens with a couple of shorter extension tubes, onto my Olympus camera. For light...
  3. Robert Watcher

    Macro photography of window sill succulents

    My wife Anne’s Instagram picture of her little flower grouping this morning, got me inspired to take a few macro shots of those new flowers that she noticed on her window sill succulents. Until I went out and had a look, I did not realize how small the flowers are. They are no more than 1/4...
  4. Robert Watcher

    Animals Close up (not macro)

    Olympus 75-300mm lens
  5. Robert Watcher

    Art Around the House - Tethered Desktop Studio

    Looking around the house for interesting photographic subjects. This is not only a closeup of two forks out of the drawer, but I was also able to experiment with Live Composition to introduce some colours in the background with my iPhone. I just did a Google search for a colour and then click...
  6. Robert Watcher

    ADAPTABILITY - Can’t go outside, but gotta still photograph

    It has been a little boring not having much real content to photograph on a daily basis... ... and so I decided to utilize a small desk space in our living room, and discover a whole new facet of photography this spring —- closeup photography on a macro scale. I had a camera. I have an adapted...
  7. Dr Klaus Schmitt

    Lichen multispectral in closeup

    Since there was a request... Visible light, reflected UV, simulated bee and butterfly vision (left to right, top to bottom)
  8. Robert Watcher

    TINY THINGS

    I haven’t used the macro lens (35mm Olympus) that I got when I was home In Canada a few months ago. Haven’t found bugs or a way to get them still at 1/2 inch from the lens, and I’m realizing that it is hard and takes a lot of patience and controlled environments. I grabbed a camera with the...
  9. Dr Klaus Schmitt

    Late autumn Hortensia flower

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