Springtails are tiny creatures, often no bigger than 2mm.
There are many different types, spherical or elongated, but in my garden I only found the spherical ones so far. Sometimes they are translucent, sometimes striped and sometimes a bit blotchy.
And, as their name suggests, they can jump...
There’s a tiny spider hanging on to a butterfly that seems almost twenty times its own size! The spider is commonly known as a White crab spider and it usually hangs around white flowers waiting to capture unsuspecting insects such as this unfortunate Common Grass Yellow Butterfly.
The Flower Chafer is a beautiful, shiny, emerald green, and quite large beetle.
Flower chafers are small, stocky beetles that come in shimmering bright colors. They look like round little dumplings. The most popular are the emerald green flower chafer, the pachnoda marginata and the Derby's...
Vivitar (Komine made) Auto Macro (1:1) 55mm f/2.8 (Nikon F mount)
Vivitar was a very known Third party lens and accessories manufacturing company back in the 35mm film era.
It has build many lenses and some of them keep their reputation until these days prefered by many vintage lens users for...
This is my first macro shot with my (new) Olympus camera :) and Lomo 3,7X microscope lens + extension tubes.
2 Flashes + homemade diffuser.
1/125 sec.
ISO 200
103 images stacked in Helicon Focus, some retouched in Photoshop.
Wemacro rail, stepsize 35 um.