Some macro pics

[Kev F]

Just been taking a few close ups and thought i'd share them...a lot of hover flies, wasps and butterflies around today and they love the orange flowers (as you can see).

[flounder]

nice kev, but not enough of them!

[redsquirrel]

hi kev,whats the purple one in 1011 please ?

[huporhaha]

Excuse my obvious ignorance - but what's a macro pic - Is it a big picture or a small part of of something?

Sorry, I can't help not having much between my ears - my green fingers make up for my lack of grey matter.

[Adam D]

hi kev,whats the purple one in 1011 please ?

Some kind of Lavender.

[Kev F]

It's commonly called butterfly lavender, lovely fragrance in the warm weather... A macro is a function on most cameras and some camera phones that allows you to take a photo of something/part of something very close up and the subject in the shot shows up very clear and sharp and in high detail, also shows the colours very accurately.

[stephenprudence]

A macro photo is a photo setting in which you get higher definition as you get closer to the object you are photographing.

Usually if you take a photo on automatic settings, the photo will blue, but Macro allows you to take a highly defined photo at close range.