Category Archives: Macro Photography
Four directions
1200 * 900 Another small snowflake from this winter. Though this is hexagon, it looks like irregular triangle. Glass background with backlight, additional lens Helios 44M-5, january 2015, Moscow. 8 RAWs averaged. Commercial licenses at ShutterStock.com: variant1, variant2. More snowflakes … Continue reading
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Wasp
This is focus stack of dead insect (found it under window). Captured with my usual “snowflake” macro setup (i described it in article about snowflake macro photography). 120 RAW shots were used (20 groups with different focus, each group contains … Continue reading
Pollen grains of Alcea rosea (common hollyhock)
This is smallest object i’ve ever captured (except for tiny snowflakes from this ice dust collection). But for pollen this is very big grains (i’ve tried several other flower species, but all of them have so tiny grains that my … Continue reading
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Leaves of ice
2555 * 1916 I’ll try to process more snowflakes from previous winters till the next snowflake season. There is lots of nice crystals waiting processing! This is quite big stellar dendrite, around 6 millimeters in diameter. 6 serial shots averaged … Continue reading
Double vision
900 * 900 This is simple photo manipulation: two copies of same snowflake merged in “difference” blending mode with small shift between copies (“normal” processing of this snowflake will be ready soon). I like colors that difference blending produced in … Continue reading
Instagram page
Just created Instagram page with my photos (nickname chaoticmind75). When i’m done with uploading all good photos, will try to keep it up-to-date. The keys to december
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Machinery of winter II
1200 * 900 Small snowflake, around 1,5 mm in diameter. Still, i have many unprocessing snowflakes of this type (simple hexagonal plates). These simple crystals are easy to process, compared to large and fancy ones; but next snowflake will be … Continue reading
Stamen of Field Scabious (Knautia L) with pollen
2048 * 1536 This flower have so small pollen grains that they are beyond capabilities of my current optics: at this photo, we cannot see exact shape of grains (maybe, something like erytrocyt cells?). But pink color of grains is … Continue reading
Pollen factory at work
Stamen of vegetable marrow with pollen grains. These grains are slightly smaller than pollen of common hollyhock, and have similar shape (sphere with small spikes), but on these grains we can see also bigger spikes. For comparison, here is electronic … Continue reading