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

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Ooh, great! I'm looking forward to seeing what you get out of them. I should warn you though that you'll find it hard taking handheld photos in anything but bright light without a extra flash unit, as the full set of tubes block the light from the pop-up flash on the camera.