Tag: macro photography

  • A polarising microscope on the cheap!

    Since there are many resources for polarisation microscopy on the web, this will be a short post. Any microscope can be converted to a polarising instrument. All that is required is a polariser below the condenser and second one, the so called analyser, above the objective. The former can sit on the glass above the…

  • When do you call yourself ‘a photographer’?

    It’s a more interesting question than it seems and until recently I would not have said that I am a ‘photographer’ rather, I would have said that I take photographs. My friend Gary an accomplished artist, in response to my question, “How do you become an artist”, replied “When you say you are”. I think…

  • Is an amoeba smarter than your dog?

    On the same drier side of humour; if you give a dog a hammer, nails and the wood, can it build its own kennel and even if it could, would it be a work of art? Obviously, both the title and the question that follows are tongue-in-cheek! However, there is a serious side to this…

  • How to take really bad macro photos?

    Make mistakes – it’s the only way to improve This essay is really a memo to myself to remind me of the things I have learnt on my journey to try and yet fail so often, to take good macro photos. My opinion of my macro photos is that I sometimes take photos that rival…

  • Some observations on dragonflies

    We think we are so smart and that our creations are so very fantastic, but the truth is that even the humblest of living organisms makes our greatest creations look like toys. Dragonflies and damsel flies are ancient insects but they are very good examples of unbelievably refined flying machines that should make drone enthusiasts…

  • A tale of two ponds

    This essay is about two of our local ponds in France. The 20th century has not been kind to ponds. In both France and Britain, many were drained to create more farmland or filled in to make room for new developments. Some ponds went to waste and others were stuffed full of it! In France and…

  • Outing to the lakes

    This is my first post under ‘Macro’ but it could equally well perhaps have appeared under another of my web-site’s headings (‘Eco’, ‘France’, etc.). It’s about a couple of short trips to find and photograph dragonflies. There are a number of places near Penne and Vaour where one can find many species of these most…

  • Electro – electronics and electro-optical projects

    Nothing here yet but old projects can be found at www.petermobbs.wordpress.com. New projects will be added here. All the pictures and content on these pages are the copyright of the author and of petermobbs.com. They may not be reused in any form without the express permission of the author.

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    This is the landing page for petermobbs.com. The main entries are to be found in the blog pages. To access them please click on the button above. The topics covered range from posts on ecology and politics to macro photography, electronics, reviews of photographic gear and living in France.

  • Macro – things you can see with the naked eye if you look!

    This is a small gallery of pictures mostly taken with either an Olympus EM-1 Mk2 or an OM-1 Mk2 with 60 or 90mm OM macro lenses, a Godox V350o flash and a homemade diffuser. Some images are the results of ‘stacking’ between 5 and 20 images or of other tricks but most are single shots.…

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