The new lens

I have been putting my new Macro lens through its paces.

Seed caught on a Blueberry twig



Using it is going to take some getting to grips with, but I think I'm going to love it. What it means is that I have absolutely no excuse any more for saying "But there's nothing to photograph...", because even the smallest objects are now within scope - as witness this little "Still Life". It's a piece of moss, a couple of pine-needles, a seed, even a whisp of cobweb - just a tiny piece of debris resting on the cover of my water-butt.

"Still Life with pine-needles"



Here is a patch of moss growing at the base of my Bronze Maple tree. You can see the individual seed-heads, each one just a few millimetres tall.

If you thought that was detailed, let me zoom-in a bit for you. Notice the tiny little grey louse in the centre of the photo!

Here are some early bulbs pushing through the soil - these ones are Crocuses:

Crocus

Crocus

This is a dried-up seedhead of the Cornus Sanguinea "Midwinter Fire":

And this is just a rather scruffy seedhead from the Bronze Fennel:

This photo of a Ladybird lets us see in detail how the netting amonsgt which it is resting has been knitted:

The only difficulty I can foresee with this lens is knowing when to stop...

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For those of you who don't already know this, my camera is an Olympus E-450 Digital SLR, and this new lens is the Zuiko Digital 35mm f3.5 Macro lens.