Macro

There is a lot of Garlic Mustard flowering near us at the moment.
Out with the dog first thing this morning picked a (small) piece to snap.

On looking closely-ish at home, noticed a small orange dot.

The egg of Orange Tip Butterfly.

Through the K5, 50 reversed onto 200, on the tube/Bellows with 155mm extension it looked like this once I'd stacked the 18 images through Combine ZP & cropped in Elements11......




I reckon it was about x9 on the sensor.
The egg itself, about 0.8mm long.

Hoping you're all keeping safe & well & finding something good to photograph.

Any thoughts you may have on the above will be most welcome!

Roger.

Fabulous, especially from a biological perspective and its amazing what you can find

Now that`s close

More micro than macro. Well done.
How do you prevent the whole ensemble from bouncing up and down at such a huge extension? The turning moment at the end of the 50mm must be huge.

Wow, that's really close and excellent detail.

Super 'micro', Roger, that allows one to appreciate the beauty of a butterfly egg and good on you for finding one in the first place

I help with Brown Hairstreak egg surveys during the winter at a number of sites in North Wiltshire. They are of similar size but pure white in colour and resemble miniature sea urchins skeletons link.

Unlike the adult Orange Tip, the adult Brown Hairstreak spends most of of its life in the treetops and hence population monitoring relies on egg surveys.

All I can do is stand back in amasement... And Awe...!! These type of shots are just fabulous and completely out of my reportoire...lol

Thanks all for your kind remarks.
David, short flash duration, 3 sec. shutter delay, the whole camera/tube/bellows/lenses arrangement is as balanced as poss., then a light press of the button. 18 times!

Jon, that is extraordinary & a fantastic image of it to boot!
And well done for the conservation work!

Roger.

Just to be absolutely clear, the image of the Brown Hairstreak egg was taken by Gillian Thompson and most definitely not me The full link to the relevant page on the Butterfly Conservation web site is link.

Apologies for my inadvertent oversight in not having made this clear in my original post.

Jon

Thanks for the clarification, Jon but my comments you've emboldened, above, still stand.
And well done, Gillian Thompson!!

Roger..