Fifty-Two Fridays |Macro | Bay Area Photographer

This week’s theme of Macro was challenging because I don’t own a Macro lens.  A macro lens allows you to get very close to your subject and photograph the minute details.  Since I don’t own a Macro lens, and instead of pulling an old image I took when I had rented a Macro, I did the next best thing.  I created my own Macro lens by using a technique called the Poor Man’s Macro.  Read all about it on MCP’s blog HERE.  I can’t declare success.  But it was better than nothing.

For this assignment I really wanted to photograph an insect up close and personal.  And since I know my son is intrigued by bugs right now, I brought him and his trusty bug catcher along on a quest for a ladybug.  He looked high.  He looked low.  He looked in the grasses.  He looked along the fences.  He looked under rocks and on tree trunks.  We never did find a ladybug but we did find an assortment of beetles and potato bugs.   Unfortunately, those little bugs would not sit still long enough for my Poor Man’s Macro to take a sharp picture so instead, I focused on my son as he was studying the bugs.   I don’t usually post so many images for this project, but we had such a fun time together that this week’s assignment ended up as a collage of sorts.  I threw a couple of Macros in the mix too.

 

Please continue along the circle by visiting my creative friend Aubry Startin – Startin Photo – Arizona Photographer for her Macro image this week.

Happy Friday everyone!!!