macro – Page 2 – photography by Gabor Kovacs

dead hoverfly

5 August 2020Posted in focus stacking, lockdown photos, macro, Olympus EM1

the owner of the wing shown in the previous photograph. I didn’t quite get this right as the insect’s eye is not sharp.

wing

26 July 202026 July 2020Posted in lockdown photos, macro, Olympus EM1

the tiny wing of a dead hoverfly, looking like a stained glass window.

more caterpillars

30 June 202029 June 2020Posted in animals, lockdown photos, macro, Olympus EM1

caterpillars!

29 June 202029 June 2020Posted in Home, lockdown photos, macro, Olympus EM1

My book suggests that these are caterpillars of the buff tip moth.

cactus

16 May 2020Posted in focus stacking, lockdown photos, macro, Olympus EM1

Another macro image with focus stacking, taken in the greenhouse.

‘A’ strings

15 May 202015 May 2020Posted in lockdown photos, macro, mandolin, Olympus EM1

Today I have been playing with 47 mm of extension tubes and a Raynox 250 macro lens, all on my 40-150 zoom lens at 150mm.
This is the ‘A’ strings on my mandolin, with one of the abolone fret markers. The strings are 2mm apart, and about 4mm above the fretboard!