Some autumn macro photos

[motetus]

As it was the first weekend in ages that wasn't rainy and miserable, I took the camera and an uncooperative boy (sometimes I think he was put on earth to prepare me for having children. "I'm bored. I need the toilet. Can we go home yet?") to Healey Dell nature reserve to try out the extension tubes.



The few flowers remaining:







Blackberries don't really look that tasty close up:



and neither do the soggy mushrooms:



Dead bracken:



Water droplets:





Moss:



Some green thistley thing (I'm not a botanist!):



An autumn leaf:



And finally, a tiny little spider which I pissed off a lot by blinding the poor thing with my flash a dozen times:

Comments

[barking-cats.livejournal.com]

Zoe, these are beautiful ! I LOVE photography but I haven't felt like it in years since my camera broke basically. I've always wanted to have a good one. Although my thing is more portraits, or people anyway. But your pictures are stunning ! Maybe you should consider that indeed, as if I remember correctly you're bored with what you do. You have some bige creative talent, drawing and photography.
My sister and her boyfriend and ex boyfriend (yes, they're a trio. and NO, you dirty mind, it's just friendhsip, well except my sister and her actual bf) would love these pictures I think. Especially her ex boyfriend, he's very very very good at taking pictures as wel, and he loves spiders. They're all biologists, and well studying environnement and stuff. So basically, botanists ;) (not quite but you know). They'd jump on your "gree thistly thing" and bore you with the latin name and other equally interesting data for ages.

and your boyfriend sounds lovely

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Thanks! But no, I don't think it's ever something I'd do professionally though - partly because turning a hobby into a job would make it become less enjoyable, but mostly because I've seen what proper professionals can do, and dear god they are frighteningly good. Though I suppose it would be nice to have a job that lets me do a little bit on the side, but I don't know what that could be.

Ha, I think I'd like your sister and her boyfriend/ex-boyfriend. I shared a house with two of my best friends who were also nerdy biologists, and we had many pedantic science arguments. And I dread to think what the neighbours thought about us the time we found a dead seagull in the garden and were hopping around its rotting corpse declaring "It's a juvenile!"