Not the Lynx you were expecting?

Another one of my favourite macro shots - this is an Australian Lynx spider (possibly Oxyopes elegans ?)

This guy (girl?) was posing nicely on a stalk of parsley in the garden and again is tiny.  I love the markings on the body;  perhaps that's the reason for the name 'Lynx'?
 

Snail's pace

This is one of my favourite macro images - a  small snail (or more likely, just the shell) on a blade of grass, with the sun shining through it.  (For a sense of scale, the shell is probably the size of the fingernail on your pinky/little finger)

I love the soft, almost dream-like, look of this image, and the fine details visible in the shell.

Red sky at night

I've been nagged recently (you know who you are...)  about a lack of updates to the blog and so I thought I'd post a recent sunset picture.  This was taken a couple of months ago in Canberra, Australia.

The shot was deliberately exposed to bring out the details in the clouds, yet hide (almost) the lights of the city below.  To me it suggests a quite a tranquil scene.

Painted with light

I really like the watercolour-like tones in this image.  By happy coincidence this is another phone-camera shot (HTC Desire S this time) and was taken very recently.  It was a case of happening to be in the right place at the right time and again a case of the best camera being the one I had with me.

Peace on Earth (og Glædelig Jul)

I've always liked this sunset shot, taken several years ago now on a pretty low resolution Samsung D500 camera phone.  From memory, it was around 1.3 mega-pixels.  Positively primitive by today's standards, but again a case of 'making do' with the camera I had with me.

The scene is a Danish country church, taken just on sunset on a Christmas Eve  (hence the title of today's post).

A hollow victory

This is one of those pure chance shots, and again a case of  'the one you have' in terms of gear.
I was out walking and only had my Olympus TG310 with me;  a moderately basic compact camera. 

Apologies (again) for the eight legs, but in this case it's not actually a spider  but the spider's skin.  Similar to snakes (in a way), spiders outgrow their skins (or carapace, if you prefer) and have to shed it on a regular basis.  What we're seeing here is the empty skin of an Australian Huntsmen (Sparassidae family), nicely lit by the midday sun.

To the stars!

Another long exposure (roughly 25 seconds);  if you look closely you can see the 'star trails as the stars appear to move across the sky (also known as sidereal motion).  This shot was taken in country New South Wales, Australia.   I really like the contrast between the stars and trees and water tank.

Also, very much in the spirit of 'the one you have'   this shot was taken with a 50mm macro lens which happened to be the only lens that I had with me.