It seems easy to make an `interesting’ macro photograph as the subject is usually something hardly observed by our naked eyes. However, creating a macro shot that keeps viewer’s eyes on it for some moments is rather difficult. In a close-up shot, I often look for a good subject to be in focus, and equally [...]

I love Monarch butterflies since my childhood, they are so delicate and at the same time have a great strength to achieve one of the most impressive migrations. It’s fantastic to seem them here in Monterrey during its migration and I found this little one in the natural Park “La Estanzuela”. My intention in this [...]

Sunday morning I drove a few hours from home to visit the Magic Wings Butterfly Garden. While trying to capture a photo a transparent butterfly I came upon this delicate flower a little larger than my thumbnail resting in the shade and on a leaf of one of the bigger trees in the green house. [...]

Captured this shot on a frosty morning in Edinburgh. Going out to photograph on a frosty morn is an amazing experience and what I have noticed is that the beauty of frost is in the detail. Getting up close to your subject brings out the real beauty. At first glance, one just sees a white [...]

I took this photo of Sunflower at Public Market at Seattle. Sunflower is recognized worldwide for its vibrant color, and beauty. The flower petals within the sunflower’s cluster are usually in a spiral pattern. Typically, there are 34 spirals in one direction and 55 in the other, and this pattern produces the most efficient packing [...]

A mantis on a leave with a staring eye. Looking carefully and prepares if danger arise for an escape. Technical Info: Olympus E-5 | ISO 200 | 1/160 @ f/5 | Focal Length 150mm Title of the Photograph: Mantis Eye Photo of the Day Award Category: Close-Up Photography Photograph Location: Keramat, Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia [...]

For a touchy-feely person, rose means a lot. It makes them happy, and smiles back if they are sad, and to some, it’s a symbol of love. It’s a flower that meant to bring happiness in life. I took this photograph of rose in my garden in Monza, Italy.

Every micro world is unique, a Pandora world. This is one of the gifts that the micro lens offers, the opportunity to transport you to a new world and admire the small details in its entire splendor. I was walking in “Rio la Silla” park when I found an area covered with three-leafed clovers, soon [...]

Photograph of grape in the water to wash it. There are many ways to take a photograph, but it’s not always easy to get what you want to highlight. When washing grape thoroughly under clean running water, it makes the dirt removed, and also produce a very natural seen which we hardly notice to photograph.

Macro photography opens up a whole new perspective, this yellow flower was so tempting and inviting with the pollen sticking out of it. Such opportunities sometimes disappear as the day ends, since some flowers tend to shut down at the end of the day so I had to make it quick, If I can see [...]