Last months Srs Microsystems monthly competition was macro, I entered and today received an email say I'd won.
I won a £50 voucher for Srs Microsystems. Many thanks Srs

This was my entry

Excellent set, interesting setup too, I've yet to venture into the reversed route properly, I think I might have tried it a few years ago once or twice. You've certainly gotten fantastic results from it.
Great shooting

Boy, lovely set, have to love the clumps. Have yet to find one, and it's not for the lack of looking,
The ladybird is a cracking shot too, especially with all those green fly just waiting to become lunch.
Raspberry leaves and comfrey for me highlight how well this lens renders colour and detail, putting it to great use, I'm delighted to see
Green fly on the feather just shows how much room you have to play with, savage,
Green fly are fairly small, I have a shot somewhere of the facets in a green fly eye, the adult ones are weird, with funny tubes sticking out
Super set, showing us all where we should be headed.
👍👍👍

Cheers guys, they are quick, with or without the eggs, it didnt seem to slow them at all.

I was lucky with the first one, managed to nail the focus on the eye it was the only one that stopped for a minute.

My neighbor found an ants nest in his garden, so he gave me a shout, Ants are hard to shoot, or at least i found it difficult, might have been a combination of factors that made it difficult, anyway here are 2 shots.


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Absolutely, great angle on the 2nd one, and great job controlling the light. Great shooting 👏👏👏

Save yourself a long long wait, buy new. They rarely come up for sale used.

I spotted this guy next to a petrol station on a dog daisy, I had the k1 and samyang 135mm f2 and some tube with me, no macro lens or flash
Its a cockchaffer, I had never seen one before, it was pretty still as they seem to be nocturnal, they have lovely bushy eyebrows at night when they liven up
Heavily edited

I have an issue still to sort out with these but am posting anyway,


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Out and about, mooching around in the garden yesterday.


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I can see Flickr on PC, but it's not working properly, I keep getting " bad panda" thing when I try to upload, but then later , stuff is showing up. Contacts seem to have disappeared too.
Hopefully it's back up properly soon.