Spring macros

So… I finally have a new lens on the way to replace the old broken one. It should arrive on Friday so I still have a couple of days to do some macro-ing… In this post I’m showing you how the Damson Plum in our garden is getting all dressed up for the summer.

For all this photos I’ve used my Canon 60 mm macro along with a Kenko 36 mm extension tube.

The first photo was taken on May 6th when the tree still didn’t have any open leaves. The bud’s real size was maybe 5-7 mm in diameter. The magnification ratio of the lens is 1:1 so someone wise enough (I’m not, even after some serious web surfing) could count the magnification ratio with the extension tube…

The second photo was taken ten days later, May 16th – with the same lens combination. The original bud size about 5 mm, if not less.

And the last trio the next day, May 17th. Now maybe half of the flowers are open but I don’t have any macros of them – and now there’s too much wind to even try. But isn’t it fascinating how macro photos make things look totally different? Behind ordinary “faces” there are zillions of suddle details, just too small for human eyes to see.