Up Close with Nature

My face-to-face with a longhorn beetle image won the Reader's Digest Unseen Asia 2011, March challenge. The prize is a Ricoh CX4. I have always wanted a compact camera/ point & shoot that I can carry with me at all times and also for blogging! The actual image is here: It is my first time winning something in a photo contest. I am so lucky! Thanks to Jeffrey Siow for the early good news.

This post is about tripod for macro photography. I was out looking for bugs again when I found this newly emerged cicada perching on its own exuvium, pumping fluids to its wings, waiting for its body to harden before taking its first flight! I spent the next one hour photography this cicada. I believe I missed the emergence process by about 10 to 15 minutes. Better luck next time! The newly

If you want to try out macro but not willing yet to fork out good money for a real macro lens until you are really sure that macro is for you, then this post is for you. Depending on what lenses you already have, one of these options should work for you. Approximate prices indicated for reference. 1. Raynox DCR250 This is a +8 diopter lens that you can snap onto your existing

In this post, you will see how you can turn either a 35-80mm, or a 28-80mm into a macro lens with absolutely minimal effort. All you need to do is to remove the front element and you will be rewarded with a macro lens capable of going from around 0.7X to 1.8X (1:1.35 to 1.85:1). For more "cheap macro" ideas, check this out. This is not my idea. I stumbled across a thread on hacking a 35-80mm