Playing with leafs and other objects by using a Macro lens, and then doing focus bracketing - and finally putting them together in a program which can handle focus stacking... is an absolute favorite of mine. Especially during winter times, when you are mostly indoors.

It is fun. It is interesting. It is even fascinating at times, because you get to see very small details which the eye normally can't seperate / see.

It is a create way to get time to pass. Or when boredom hits my mind and i can't get myself to come up with any ideas... then playing with Macro is every time, so rewarding !!!

The Grasshopper

I found a dead grasshopper last year - and kept it then in a glass jar - but forgot about it. Those critters can sometimes fly into our home, especially during autumn times, when the air outside gets colder - they tend to like warmer places, since sometimes our balcony door is still open.

It is a rather small grasshopper. The other day, i took it out of the jar and placed it on an illuminated LCD board together with those super cool SmallRig LED lamps, you can bend into any kind of direction... which is a blessing in terms of working with smaller object - as you can steer and form the flight flow in numerous ways.

I don't kill insects for photography. So, it is very rare that i make images of those critters. Plus i have never made one with the focus bracketing / stacking method before. So, when you then see a little animal in high resolution - it is like a world within a world. It looks both creepy as it looks fascinating.

Sure, i am not a microscope type of Macro guy. Those people go with sophisticated, super high resolution lenses even closer - and so 200 images focus-bracketed... and reveal such tiny, microscopic details which take your breath out. I am not that sophisticated nor skilled.

But for my purposes and experiments - i enjoy Macro photography without going overboard with it. The Olympus lens i have, allows me to get pretty close - closer than normal 1:1 macro. Albeit i am not always going that close, really. I am still experimenting. Perhaps I am always at that stage... *hahaha* You know, never truly becoming a master - always being an amateur who "experiments" - but never to total fulfillment.

Which is OK, too

Not everyone needs to become a master, in order to enjoy the journey in photography.