But then again, to few to mention… in terms of photographic equipment. It’s time like this that I really wish I had a DSLR camera with long telephoto.

All I have is a point-and-shoot. Darn!

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One thing about tropical bushes is that if you ever lost your way among them, you won’t get starved for at least a week, that is if you know what to and what not to eat.

Water will be plenty and if there aren’t any rivers nearby, you can always try to harvest the morning dew to quench your thirst. This jungle fruit here is definitely edible. Having said that, do be careful with sweet looking fruits as they may contain cyanide that will knock you down in no time, if you consume them. Or leave you all itchy day and night if you come in contact with their leaves.

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Another macro photo of an insect. A blue one this time.

There’s something about the shadow though. I feel something could have been done with it, like making it the subject instead of the fly. But with insects, you are actually at their mercy. You can’t tell them to stay still for long. So you just snap what you can while they are still holding still.

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This is another picture I took recently from my field trip — a lazy walkabout in the open space near my house. The total length of “husk” is about 3cm.

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Dandelions are heaven sent for macro photography. They are soft but at the same time appear very sharp in photographs.

Photographers have been taking photos of dandelions with varying degree of success. The photo here, I believe, is very successfully taken.

This dandelion macro photo is contributed by Aditi Kidambi who has also taken some very delicious macro photographs which you can see on her Flickr page. Thanks Aditi for the superb dandelion.

By the way, the English name dandelion is a corruption of the French dent de lion meaning lion’s tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves.

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This blog accept macro photo contribution from people around the world.

If you feel like you want to share a particular picture, feel free to email them to this blog’s owner at jaxonsblog [at] gmail [dot] com.

This one, I received from Kyle Cronk today, the first contribution I received since I started this blog in October 2007. Dancing Daisy is the title given.

I read somewhere that when shooting flowers, always try to shoot them from an angle different from the angle you would normally look at them. The daisies here are indeed taken from that different angle. Thanks Kyle for the daisies.

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You will never know what you can find around the playground and even if you’ve found one, you might just miss it if you haven’t developed some sorts of photo-graphical instinct. Things like a broken bird’s egg might just end up being crushed under your boot and not under your lens.

So the next time you feel like your are whiling too much of your time, why not just pack you camera — whatever the camera maybe — and head over to the nearest open space with a lot of grass and take another look at the field you’ve taken for granted for sometime, this time with your lens-eye.

You might just end up with some very nice macro shot — not that I’m saying that egg shell shot here is nice, but you get the idea.

Nature is indeed rich. A lot of things are taking place in nature even within the several square metres of your backyard.

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Don’t get me wrong. I’m a Canon guy but with Nikon releasing one after another of class-leading DSLR cameras of late, Nikon seems to be winning the game, at the moment.

Ok, it’s down there with the rest in the entry level DSLR camera and in the point-and-shoot segments, but at this time of the year, Nikon is the only brand — in my opinion — which is sitting pretty at the top of the middle-range to high-end DSLR standings.

Think Nikon D300, Nikon D3 and the latest Nikon D700 — all released within a span of one year, and at a time when Canon seems to be more interested in the mass entry level DSLR market.

Hey, guess what. I might soon convert to Nikon photography religion.

But let’s just put it this way — if I want to buy an entry level DSLR now, I will go for Canon. I will choose the Canon 450D and the Canon 1000D anytime over the Nikon D60 or Nikon D40X.

But Nikon will definitely be the choice if professional camera is what I’m looking for.

I will chose the Nikon D3 anytime over Canon’s EOS 1Ds Mark III, Nikon D300 over Canon D40D and Nikon D700 over the upcoming, yet-to-be-named, upgrade of Canon’s full-frame DSLR, the 5D.

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