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I've owned many cameras that are more capable, but when it comes to a 'favourite' the e1 is mine. Somehow the 5mp sensor and (nearly) 20 year old tech don't matter when I have this chunky little ...

First time I've encountered one of these (my best guess is that it's a Black Knight). Lens was Laowa 100 macro at f11 (or so).

magpie goose in the pre dawn light

male golden orb weaver and his (somewhat larger) gal (Loawa 100 2.8 macro)

loawa 100mm f2.8 macro at about f11, up close under a large yellow mushroom

stacked close-up of a palm tree trunk after rain, A7r2 with Loawa 100mm macro

a7r2 with the laowa 100 f2.8 macro at f11 (or thereabouts) - managed to get almost perfectly side on, so quite a bit of detail from head to tail

freshly fallen freshwater mangrove flowers

Thanks. The tree is an African Mahogany.  They're actually a weed in the Top End of Australia, where they are very widespread. It's a magnificent tree, but it tends to be shallow rooted, which is ...

sd1M with 70 non-art macro - multiple frames stacked in helicon - plenty to see up close (they vaguely remind me of ancient maps)

sd1M with 70 non-art macro it was a little breezy, so smaller aperture and/or stacking not an option

This guy (an estuarine crocodile) lives in a waterhole on my bush block about an hour out of Darwin.  He is about 3.5 metres long and is very fat; well fed by the feral pigs and wallabies that ...

Yes, all were with a tripod - the mornings at the moment are still, and very cool (by Top End standards), which means I can get very close.

Yes, there are hundreds, if not thousands, often in large groups like this:

these (swamp tigers and crows) are from a rainforest near my home first sigma outing for a while - reminded of everything I like (and don't) 70mm macro (non art) and 85mm art

these (crow butterflies and swamp tiger butterflies) are from a patch of rainforest near my home 70-300 and 35 macro

growing wild in a paperbark forest near my home Laowa 100m macro and TT Artisans 11mm fisheye

first one with the 200-600, second with Samyang 135 f2 (manual version)