>>>Monday Macro/Closeups 9 January 2012<<<

Love the detail in your whites.

So sharp, so clear and so cute Bruno.I don't have any grandchildren yet but my son (who is now 23 ) still have some of his Lego in boxes . Your photo brought back many wonderful memories . Thanks Bruno

Really nice Yuki . One good looking egret You should start " Bird Thread " I never can get their white feather right . Congrats. to you .

Lovely ponchik. Good to see your picture

Ah ! this is so refreshing . Looks tempting .

Beautiful color Clancyboy . Nice composition on the second one

Lovely close up of the rose.

Beautiful captures Deepak. Always good to see your work. Keep it coming

Thanks Yuki, you are so kind. Please do grow the tomatoes next summer and your backyard will turn into a little jungle LOL but make sure it not going out of control cause these cute little bugs are still pests

Thanks Nicholas . Glad you like them. I think they are very interesting pests also. Strange looking, brightly green , jumping insects. Triangle -shaped when viewed from above, hump-backed from the side .

Thank you Yuki!

Thank you Winnie!

The cold weather chased them away.. and they all returned back to theirs happy planet, Winnie.. adorable images of never-seen amusing looking bugs .. love your glorious colors, thanks for sharing.

Kindest regards,
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Bruno

Thank you all for kind commenting .. the Lego world is a special place, regardless of the age, occasionally is good to return there ..

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Bruno

Adorable portrait of fine looking bird, Yuki.. well balanced whites (not an easy job), love the touch of yellow - spices up the whole set .. and the dark background is adding to the contrast.. well seen and captured moment, thanks for sharing ..

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Bruno

Simple, but lovely composition, Ponchik.. great detail and sharpness .. I'm most impressed by captured shades of the red.. fine work and thanks for sharing ..

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Bruno

Thanks Bruno. You are so kind Let's just hope my backyard won't turn into bug zoo once the weather's getting warmer.

We saw the news this week that Panasonic has brought out a range of supplementary lenses for the 14-42 X standard zoom for the GX1 m43.

This is great news! There is a closer-up lens along with a wide-angle, a 2x telephoto, and a fish-eye.

That close-up lens will be a boon. I've just taken delivery of the Olympus equivalent, the MCON-P01, for the 14-42 II R standard lens for Oly's current rop of E cameras (Panny is following Oly on this one).

It's about 2x, feather light, slides easily into a shirt pocket, and helps you take pictures like this (lens zoom to its 42mm max):





I deliberately focused on the rear petal in the middle of the pic here so I could see how well the supplementary lens handled the fine hairs on the tomato vine. I reckon it did okay! In fact, extremely well!

I'm sure a lot of Panasonic GX1 users (and users of others cameras who fit the 14-42 X lens) are going to be very happy campers with the new lightweight supplementary lenses -- so long as they can overcome the prejudice against supplementary lenses per se seen in forum discussions.

As an Oly owner, I am very envious of the Panny telephone supplementary. Oly's supplementary range for the 14-42 is close-up, wide-angle, and fish-eye only.

Cheers, geoff
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Geoffrey Heard
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Nearly a 3D image, Scott.. could almost touch those berries .. pleasant composition and cheerful colors, well handled DOF (macro mode?).. love the droplets, thanks for posting ..

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Bruno

winniepoo said:

Beautiful color Clancyboy . Nice composition on the second one

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My thoughts exactly! (Thanks, Winnie ) .. I would only add, the sharpness and clarity of the "pumpkin" shot is impressive.. thanks for sharing, Clancyboy ..

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Bruno