Decent macro?

jackprks wrote in post #3702454
randomgrafix, except for my heart, lumgs, liver, eyes and bones-I am in good shape.
In spite of all handicaosm, we have to go on living and by facing a sea of troubles, defeating them! (Paraphrased) My favorite poem is Invictus.

"Into the valley of deathe rode the valiant 600"

Good poem, I love it too.
"In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed."

It says it all, don't give up, don't give in and do not go gently into the night

I agree!

It also says takes responsibility for your own actions "It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of mys soul". Unlike the whining of irresponsibility that seems to be the rage today.

The author of this poem was an Englishman known as Henley, when I originally learned of it, it was supposedly written on paper ripped from a paper bag by a man who had just had a leg amputated. Makes a good story but the meaning is the best I have ever seen!!!!

jackprks wrote in post #3664789
Here is one that looks a lot better. They are growing on the side of my house. Cropped, no pp.

1/100s, f 11, iso 100-214mm with tripod and af and av

Jack,

(applause),,,,,,,,,,yo​u've come a long way my friend. Thats a great shot (from a newbie who knows very little).

I cant define a great macro, but I sure know em' when I see em'.

nice job.

Harry

Thanks Blast, I can't define one either (and I probably know less). These lilies are all gone now, the rain and wind swept them away. At least I have this memorty of them, which is what photography is all about.

My first bug hunt.

All with the sigma 70-300 at 214mm (didn't have time to change it), f8, iso 400. These bees moved around so fast, I didn't know if I had captured them until afterwards. They are all cropped, the flying honeybee the most. It was only about 5% of the frame.

1/1000s, 1/800

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This is the straight from the camera for the honey bee in flight. He is in the upper left hand corner. I have no idea what you would call a crop of this much. The little devil was hard to find with the lens over 200mm and not in focus to find it.

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