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Backyard Macro and Closeups (3 a day)

For All Those Closeups in your surroundings !!!

Featured Work

Lady Bug gets a leg up by Judy Grant

Lady Bug’s behind ! /
Golden October Flower by Pamela Jayne Smith

Blooming fresh and bright for the Merry Month Of October is the wonderful Orange Marigold (they last well in a drought!) and keep all the bugs of the veg :) this is a variety that my Mum bought over here and we have about 15 from just one cutting! This was taken in the late Afternoon featured in Backyard Macro and Closeups 1st November ‘09 Canon PS G10 / macro lens added
Let Me Be by Edge-of-dreams

Taken with a Panasonic Lumix TZ-15 compact camera. Upped the contrast and saturation in Photoshop Elements.
Bella by Melanie Dogan

Canon EOS 450D / Rebel XSi / 50mm (prime) / f/1.8 / 1/250 / ISO 200 My beautiful girl, Bella… In May 2008, I received an e-mail from a good friend who had been forwarded a forward of an e-mail. The subject of that e-mail was PUPPIES!!!! (8 6-wk old puppies need loving homes)... My husband and I had still been mourning the loss of our 13 year old border collie named Patches… we met just after I received Patches as a birthday gift and she signified our relationship, so it was hard letting her go. She was a wonderful dog… But I LOVE puppies, so I just had to open that e-mail and of course they were ALL cute, but there was one that caught my attention immediately and was the cutest puppy I had ever seen! Actual photo from the e-mail: / I told my husband we HAD to go get her! He was hesitant at first, wasn’t sure we were ready to move on… I said we could just go look! I really wanted to meet her and hold her! Before someone else scooped her up, who couldn’t love her??? So, he reluctantly drove me 30+ miles at almost 10pm to go see her! The foster parents were college aged kids, so they didn’t mind the late hour. I gave all the puppies a good look, but I still wanted my first choice. At that point, no one had claimed any of them! We stayed for about 2 hours playing with all the puppies and then I talked my husband into taking her home for the weekend after they suggested it. We NEVER took her back :D I knew he would fall in love with her. :) We went back to get all of her information and to find out more about her mother, etc. Bella was the first puppy adopted :). We found out her mom is a Boxer mix and they were fostering the mother after they found out she was pregnant at the pound, so they took her home and helped her through the birthing process. They successfully found homes for all 8 puppies, including the one they kept. Then we had to decide on a name… she was the most beautiful puppy I had ever seen, so I immediately thought of Bella. We talked over hundreds of names but Bella just kept popping back into my head… Bella turned a year old in March 2009 and we’re both happy I received, opened and responded to that e-mail 8 months earlier! :) Wow! Bella won the Mutts challenge and has been featured (6 times!!!!) in: Backyard Macro and Closeups + Paws N Claws + Pets Are Us + Nuts about MUTTS + Mutts and Our K9 Friend Matt Mawson offered to draw Bella and put her on a T-shirt that he is selling on his page, I think he did a wonderful job! /
Three Day Growth by Daniel Spruce

I found this little guy floundering on our door mat of all places. / I picked him up and took him out the back to dry out on some shrubs. Canon 40D / Sigma 150mm / 580EXII
Froglet by Jason Asher

Featured in Backyard Macro and Closeups – November 2009 / Featured in JPG Cast-Offs – October 2009 Here’s a close-up of a baby frog, a mere 1cm long, hanging out on some kind of cacti plant – for the moisture I presume. Shot on the 17th of October 2009 with a Canon 450d and a 70-300 is usm with 68mm of stacked extention tubes. Processed in CS4. Shutter: 1/125th / Aperture: f/10 / ISO: 100 / Built in flash was fired at about +1. My Images Do NOT Belong To The Public Domain. All images are copyright © Jason Asher. All Rights Reserved. Copying, saving, downloading, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Non-compliance with these term(s) WILL result in legal action.
Spider Treasures by seawhisper

Macro of the spider web with water drops made in my allotment. :) Canon 400D / Canon 60mm macro f2.8
"Who me? I didn't take the peanuts!" by ldeiter78

See Chippy’s 2010 Calendar: / CHIPMUNK ADVENTURES / . CLICK TO SEE MORE CHIPPY PICTURES / . 11/1/09 ~ Featured in Playful Photogenic Pets ~ Thank you!!! :o) 11/1/09 ~ Featured in Backyard Macros and Closeups ~ Thank you so much ♥ FIRST PLACE 9/10/09 ~ Urban Wildlife – Book Pictures challenge ~ thank you everyone!!! 6/27/09 ~ Featured in Squirrels & Chipmunks ~ Thank you! FIRST PLACE 5/15/09 ~ The Funniest Animal at the Redbubble Zoo challenge ~ Funny Kritters group – thank you everyone ~ Chippy loves you!!!! 4/8/09 ~ Featured in Pet Rodents ~ Thank you!!!! FIRST PLACE 2/23/09 ~ This is the Funniest challenge – ImageWriting group – HUGS FROM CHIPPY! THANK YOU EVERYONE!! 2/13/09 ~ Featured in the ImageWriting Group – Thank you hosts!!!!!! FIRST PLACE 11/29/08 ~ Funny Kritters – Funniest Wild Animal Challenge – Thank you so much members!!!! FIRST PLACE 10/23/08 ~ Nature’s Wonders – Backyard Challenge – Thank you everyone!!! 10/12/08 ~ Featured in Squirrels 9/2008 ~ Featured in the Top Ten – Natural Developments “Chippy” is my favorite wild pet. He’s a tame chipmunk (a tiny member of the squirrel family) who comes to our doorstep on a daily basis for handouts of peanuts and hazelnuts. He and some of his buddies will take nuts from our hands and will crawl on us to look for nuts. Picture taken at my back door, July 2008, Tower City, PA Canon Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / F stop: F/5.6 Exposure: 1/250 sec. Focal length: 55.0 mm / Shutter speed (Tv): 8 DINNER AND FLOWERS / ROOM FOR MORE? /
Sunkissed Morning by Sarah-fiona Helme

Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens.
I Can Taste it Now <> The Feeder is Full of New Nectar by Chuck Gardner

I captured this little female Rufous Hummingbird as she came to feed at my garden feeder in Veneta, Oregon. / Taken with a Canon PowerShot SX10 IS on 6/26 09, TV 1/640, AV F 5.70, ISO 100, and Focal length 100.00mm
fallen by Mirror

a fall coloured leaf of a acron on a old wooden plank, layered with textures.

Recent Work

Dandelion by apami

Taken with Olympus E-520, Close-up filters.
Intruder by GeoffSporne

A grub finds itself in a flowery place
Pansies by Edyta Pelc

Super macro / Pentax Optio S30
Crimson by MsTique

“There comes a time when it cannot be put off any longer. The radio warns of a killing frost coming / in the night, and you must say good-by to the garden. You dread it, as you dread saying good-by / to any good friend; but the garden waits with its last gifts, and you must go with a bushel basket / or big buckets to receive them.” / - Rachel Peden
ballerina by Edyta Pelc

super macro Pentax Optio S30
slip slidin' away by Clare Colins

Remember that song? Pentax K200D: sigma F Macro 1:2.8 / 50.0mm: 1/15 sec: F11: ISO 100
Symphonic Coloured Rose by MarianBendeth

from my garden / Macro / shot in natural light
Lady Bug by shaneran

The roses had lots of aphids all over them. I was happy to see this lady bug taking care of some. The sun was shining so bright it picked up the shininess of the lady bug / This was taken in my mom’s rose garden in Pleasant View, Utah
Delicate Beauty by tigerwings

A Small Flower hidden in the petals of a Beautiful Purple Flower. Lamberton Conservatory Nov 09’ Olympus E-520 – 50mm Zuiko f2.0 Macro

This group is for all those wonderful close-ups and macro shots taken in your daily backyard surroundings that don’t fit within the guidelines of the sister group (Backyard Art). Please limit you posts to the group to three a day *

Show us the fine details of anything done in close-up or macro. Flowers, animals, insects, statues, trees, etc.

Please be mindful that the image is to be taken from within your backyard surroundings and we will take your image on face value, have fun with it. The group is here for you!

PLEASE SUPPLY A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE UPON SUBMISSION TO THE GROUP !*

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Double Refraction
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