Up Close with Nature

2011 is almost over and as usual, I spent some time going through the images I have taken this year to come out with this mosaic. Created using BigHugeLabs' Mosaic Maker. It's been a good year. I only realized I found 5 new species (to me) of lantern bugs this year after going through the whole year's images. I had also managed to cross off a few insects/arthropods from my wish list, such as

I posted some of my favorite macro images from 2010 in a montage in this post, complete with links to individual images in the montage, but we all know it is more fun to view them large, with musical accompaniment, so here we go! Enjoy! Happy New Year!

Just some of my personal favorite macro shots (mainly) for the year of 2010. I know there's still almost one whole month to go, but with my MT24EX twin flash  in Canon Service Center (one side wouldn't fire :(), i doubt I will be shooting much. Of course I will still try to shoot a little with the Sigma 150, mostly with natural light. Created using BigHugeLabs' Mosaic Maker. Should you like