Flower bugs

It's only now that I pay closer attention to flowers that I notice a world of bugs living in them.
Some of them are tiny, hardy visible to the naked eye.


Helios 44-5 58mm f2  @f5.6  1/1000sec


Helios 44-2 58mm f2  @f8  1/125sec


E.Ludwig Meritar 50mm f2.9  @f8  1/250sec


Helios 44-2 58mm f2  @f5.6  1/500sec

Tree flowers

The spring manifests itself best with the flowers in the trees.
The fields are usually bare where I live but the trees can really put on a wild display.


Meyer Optik Trioplan 50mm f2.9   @ f4 1/1000sec


Helios 44-2 58mm f2   @ f8 1/350sec


Helios 44-2 58mm f2   @ f5.6 1/1000sec

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Leaves

It has been years, actually more than a decade, that I took a visit to the botanical gardens, however I clearly remember that photographically I could not "see" the beauty around me then.
This time the shapes and light on the little things caught my eye much easier.

Blood leaf, Iresine species

Helios 44-2 50mm   f2  1/1000sec

Never Never Plant, Ctenanthe species

Zenit Helios 44-2  58mm   f4  1/180sec

Spiky red

The intriguing contrast of soothing gentle green curves against the aggressive spikes of red.


Helios 44-2  f2.8  1/250sec


Helios 44-2  f2.8  1/350sec