Over the Summer, i fell back in love with photography as more than merely a means of recording personal landmarks (such as building the greenhouse) or 'it shouldn't happen to a dog/cat/John' type of event. I am particularly enamoured of the close-up at the moment with true Macro being the ultimate, glittering prize.
Luckily i had a good compact and managed some nice close-ups of flowers and garden spiders. Then i used the catalogue to buy my first digital SLR. I found a lovely Russian 50mm lens on Ebay and today i made a huge leap closer to the goal by using some cheap tubes. I'm really pleased with these photographs of a dead moth which i've kept in my subjects-for-the-microscope jar for years.
The plum coloured creature is supposed to be my old beloved dog Daisy (who passed away last year). 
She was black and not exactly this shape but the resultant intarsia being has it's own charm. My rectangle-a-night progress was held up by the ginger cat which i was determined to get as right as i could and took 3 evenings; it's Boris, my 3-legged ginger 1-year-old.
