Macro photography

I love macro photography. It opens the door to a beautiful new world. You have to have some patience and sometimes its frustrating but i find that a good macro shot is worth the effort. For those who want to develop their lighting techniques its a very good practice, which later on will be very useful on bigger scenes.
My first macro shots where taken in natural light its possible and you can get very nice images that way, although your a bit limited depending only on the sunlight. I have no time right now to go into details about how it all works maybe later on i will write a post about the basics of macro photography.

Meanwhile i want to share with you the result of my latest macro shoot. The idea  to this image came up just because i found a few snails outside in the garden.  I thought it could be nice to experiment with them a bit and its never a bad idea to add another image to my ever growing  collection.

The old couple

Yesterday i went to an event on the beach where i wanted to take some pictures. It was a bit lifeless, so i started wandering around and enjoyed the beauty of the beach. At some point i saw this two trees. They where standing there next to each other like an old a couple, while one is watching its loved one going to the next world... that was a sad moment.

I wasn't in such a good mood that day.

I have already noticed before that in every image we take there is emotion. Its very hard or even impossible to separate our emotion from the image we take, unless you are able to ignore it. In my case it doesn't work. If i would ignore it i wouldn't be able to photograph...