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[Closed] Photo Theme Challenge, Week #85: Macro [Deadline: Saturday, January 25]

 
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Topic starter January 19, 2025 1:18 pm  

Thank you to everyone who submitted a photo in last week's Photo Theme Challenge! The theme this week is macro - I look forward to seeing your interesting close-up, macro, and/or microscopic photos!


   
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January 19, 2025 2:20 pm  

Dragonfly, shot next to previous home in 2021, Brittany, France

Nikon D5000, SIGMA 70-300 F4-5.6 APO DG Macro HSM, ISO 800, 450mm, f5.6, 1/800s

DSC 0017 (2)

   
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 Mauro70
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January 19, 2025 2:34 pm  
2022 05 15 21 53 38 (C,Smoothing1) Modifica

It'd be a Mesosa (Curculionides).

Nikon Z7II  Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x ultra macro, f/2.8 1,3 sec. ISO 200. approx 4x. Stack of 35 photos.

 

 


   
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January 20, 2025 5:50 pm  
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        Nikon D850, ISO 64, 1/500s, f/4, 200mm

 


   
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January 20, 2025 8:50 pm  

 

 

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In early 2023, there was an impressive hoar frost in our area.  This is a macro close up of  droplets frozen at the end of a stem.

Canon R, EF 100mm- f/2.8 macro, F/9, 1/400 sec


   
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January 21, 2025 6:54 pm  

Spring is around the corner for many! soon...

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I shot this last spring in 2024 on a Canon R7 on the RF100-400 lens. 

Shot at f8, 1/1600 and ISO 2500, was shot at 400mm.


   
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January 22, 2025 2:20 pm  
2023 06 2032 Natur RB

Small lizzard near my home.

Canon EOS 7D mark II, 560 mm, f/8, 1/2000 sec, ISO 800


   
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January 22, 2025 2:50 pm  
zetor 15

Zetor 15, 1:72, LOA: 37,5mm

Nikon D500 + DX Micro Nikkor 40mm f/2.8G @40mm, ISO 1600, 1/125, f/5.6


   
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January 22, 2025 10:37 pm  

This one looks like a demon on some TV show! No wonder it can strip the leaves off a plant so quickly. 

 

Z7C 2274

Nikon Z7ii, Z 105mm

105mm, f/7.1, 1/125

 


   
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January 23, 2025 8:35 am  

OK, I admit it, I *really* like dragonflies too...

Dragonfly AgassizDunes

   
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January 23, 2025 9:08 am  

Nikon d800 + macro 105mm

 DSC2004

   
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January 23, 2025 9:08 am  

Nikon d800 + macro 105mm

 DSC2004

   
AndrewGusew
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January 23, 2025 9:19 am  

Nikon d810 + macro 105mm

Escape 

DSC 9505

   
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January 23, 2025 9:48 am  

The sterile marginal flowers of Hydrangea paniculata 'Wim's Red'®. These were caught in the stems of my ornamental grasses by the wind: Panicum virgatum northwind.
Taken with: Nikon D810 + Sigma 150mm Macro f2.8
On tripod: 1/40 sec F13 Iso 800 Exposure delay of 3 sec.
Exposure correction: -0.3

20201120  DSC9086 4

 


   
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January 23, 2025 10:04 am  

... The Mycena galericulata on a dead tree trunk.

Nikon D810 +150mm f2.8 Sigma Macro On tripod F11 3.5 sec. ISO 64 Exposure Compensation -2
Illuminated with LED light and with exposure delay of 3sec.

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