tubes

I fixed the macro tubes to my camera today and went hunting around the garden for models, lots of Grandmother's Steps behind the insects. I started off with the tripod but it soon becomes hopeless where tiny animal photography is concerned, so i just had to try very hard to hold the camera steady. Am sitting with a hot water bottle on my right shoulder to aid recovery.

                     aphid stepping over spider lines on poppy leaf

rain water on poppy head

 

aphid on sunflower leaf

 

hoverfly on scabious

 

tiny beetle on sunflower petal

 

aphid family under poppy leaf

 

worth the frozen shoulder!

 

forecast to evaporate by Sunday lunchtime 

 

               synchronized tiny beetles on chrysanthemum bud


I'm not convinced the tubes reap any better results than the Raynox clip on lens does with the camera set to digital zoom x 2. Lens reversal ring on order (only 7 quid!).