I think I like this one. It’s not an AMAZING photo, but it’s interesting. I’m not quite sure why the depth of field is quite so shallow… might be because there was a lot of reflected light into the camera.
Anyway, if you know your foliage, you’ll be able to identify this is a honeysuckle plant! It’s a long way off budding though, as they don’t usually flower for another few months. The leaves are usually a rather dull red, but you can see here that when you let a low sun shine through their leaves you get some startling oranges and pinks and yellows!
Oh, and the spider web was an added bonus — note the sun glinting off it in the far bottom left!
I really hope the sun continues into the weekend. It actually feels like Spring is finally here!
pinkjellybaby
Mar 20, 2009
It’s very pretty colours… I like it
floreta
Mar 20, 2009
i suck. i don’t know what macro is other than it has to do with zoom. i need to study photography
Jo
Mar 20, 2009
It’s beautiful! You have made an ordinary little leaf look wonderful!
sebastian
Mar 20, 2009
Of course a pink jelly baby would like a pink photo…!
Macro generally describes an image where the thing being photographed is larger than life in the image! Macro-specific lenses exist which have a ‘sweet spot’ in the focal range for macro photos, but you can use big (100mm+) lenses to achieve the same effect. These ones were taken with a juicy 300mm lens (which is 500mm equivalent on my digital SLR body!)
andhari
Mar 21, 2009
Why is the color red? Wow I missed out a lot on plants..I never see red colored leaves! How sad!
sebastian
Mar 21, 2009
Hm, do you not at least have Japanese maple over there or something?
Red-leaved plants are more rare than green of course… but I’m pretty sure you have red/yellow-leaf plants over there… somewhere!
Or is it all broad-leafed tropical plants?