A small photo report of the critters shot with the new Tokina AT-X Pro 100\2.8 macro lens.

At first I entertained myself with spiders and cockroaches, only sometimes I found something more exotic, but closer to winter mantises came.... Oooh they are just incredibly photogenic 🙂 When you crawl around him with a camera he turns his head in your direction and pulls his paws, like take me in your arms, meow 🙂 I haven't been able to catch a big cricket on a big camera yet, and the phone at night is rubbish.

I don't know how to translate water garden, something like a garden with a pond... A place with the Maori name Ngatea has a very famous garden. It is known not only for the fact that there is a lot of vegetation, but also for the unbridled sense of humor of its owners, which spills out in unexpected installations and compositions. It rained very luckily while fording and produced lots of colors with droplets.

On New Year's Eve I unexpectedly got a real macro lens - Tokina Macro 100mm\2.8 and decided to go to the botanical garden to take pictures, because I had been there several times, but without a camera. In practice, macro turned out to be not so easy and about 70% of the footage flew into the trash because of shakiness. The shutter speed of 1\320 was sometimes not enough because the photographer wobbles, the flower wobbles, the bumblebee moves... aaaaaaah. In general, as experienced people say, a stabelizer on macro lenses is useless because the world around you is constantly moving. Below are 40 shots of what didn't move much.

The vegetable garden around the house is planted with flowers and various ornamental bushes instead of tomatoes and radishes. All this farm, despite the last days of winter is blooming and smelling. Well and I walked out in these joys stale already on the shelf 80-200\2.8 well and that the photos were as always 16 pieces on previews, finished with flowers from the cell phone.

A bit of macro photography taken in the summer of 2009 at the arboretum of the I.A. Lisavenko Institute of Horticulture. All photos were taken with a Nikkor 50/1.8 lens with Kenko extension tubes. A total of 40 photos featuring plants and insects.