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I wandered around the garden yesterday and caught loads of tiny insects & spiders (yep, still using the macro filter). Even the bee was a tiny little thing, and the spider in the web was less than 2 mm. It's amazing how much life there is around you if only you get down on your knees :)
EDIT: Just found my spider book - the spider in picture 5 looks to be A Xysticus, possibly Xysticus ulmi, but it's the usual issue of no spider seeming to look exactly like your photo :)
There are some crackers there Louise, love number three for impact and the spider in five and Ant in number eight. :)
Yes. Well done Louise. Some beautiful shots there :thumbsup:
Louise, you say, 'It's amazing how much life there is around you if only you get down on your knees'... Well, that's OK for you young things who haven't got arthritis!:D
Great photos! I especially like the tiny bug on the seventh pic - whatever it is!:thumbsup:
Actually Catherine, I wasn't using 'on your knees' literally - I have rheumatism that for the last 5 weeks has stopped me from walking anything more than a couple of steps for most of the time.... but I do sometimes take a stool out with me to the garden and either sit and lean... or use it as a prop to get up and down. So I look even sillier than usual :) For the last few days I have been able to walk and lean... but if I got to my knees I wouldn't get up again, although I suppose it would enable even more shots :)
Rolf - the third one (spider) - really annoys me that I got his legs in focus rather than his eyes as that would have been a fantastic shot - but when they are so small and very bouncy (this was one of those scary, jumpy ones) it's nigh on impossible to focus correctly :crying: