Post your favorite Macro Photos taken in 2008

We are coming to the end of 2008 so I figured I start this thread up for all you macro photographers to post your personal favorite macro photos taken in 2008.

Please keep it to 3 photos max!

Here are my favorite top three Macro photos (to my eyes).

This photo was hard because these things are constantly moving real fast

Micro Red

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very good mite shot - hard to get that much detail even when stationary for 0.5sec.

I have a couple:

A weevil nymph

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racketman wrote in post #6952123
very good mite shot - had to get that much detail even when stationary for 0.5sec.

racketman,
Thanks, I did feel lucky with that one and they are so small

LindaB,
Your DF in my garden is my favorite

John_B wrote in post #6952678
LindaB,
Your DF in my garden is my favorite

Thanks John - apologies for two things firstly for posting 4 pics (I must have missed that sentence in your original post) and for not commenting on yours (fuzzy head due to one of the many colds circulating lol).

So without further a-do, I think your aphid birth is fantastic - these arent easy shots to take.

Linda

LindaB wrote in post #6962143
Thanks John - apologies for two things firstly for posting 4 pics (I must have missed that sentence in your original post) and for not commenting on yours (fuzzy head due to one of the many colds circulating lol).

So without further a-do, I think your aphid birth is fantastic - these arent easy shots to take.

LindaB,
no problem, and thanks glad you liked the aphid birth

Fantastic shots
Heres a couple of mine

Here is mine.

Centruroides bani (6mm long) :

This is probably one of my favorites of 2008... of a Daisy in my front yard taken with my Tamron 90mm.

great shots..il have to dig through my gallery.i have taken alot of good shots this year..its going to be hard o choose.

LindaB wrote in post #6952181
I have a couple:

A weevil nymph

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DF in my garden

Droplets

Linda

tjhat is weird..never seen any thing like that before..looks ike A shedded skin..Good find linda/

macro junkie wrote in post #6968214
tjhat is weird..never seen any thing like that before..looks ike A shedded skin..Good find linda/

Thanks - yeah, I wasnt sure myself at first. Its not a shed skin, it was alive - I found it in the bottom of a hanging basket. I have seen their eggs before, but never this stage.

Here's a link to another view of it upside down, where you can see the snout shape more easily
http://www.pbase.com/l​indabuckell/image/9623​6534

Linda

PS: Some great pics being posted on here now - nice to see you around again Pete

john..that 1st image..5X life size at f/16..wow.looks so sharp..im wondering if it looks that sharp at a bigger image size?

lcpete,
Your second photo is beautiful

Androctonus,
Your Ghost Mantis look incredible

icon134,
A beautiful Daisey

macro junkie,
With some USM it came out great on a 11 x 14" print