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.

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001 - the dragon and my thumb 🙂
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009 - moss and lichens
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020 - tower, inbound for landing
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023 - moss, lichens and shrooms
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031 - pahatukawa, the Christmas flower in New Zealand
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036 - this is a Tui bird
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042 - that's all folks