Wednesday, March 7, 2012

taking a walk with my macro ...

One of the wonderful things about where we live in central Madrid, is the ability to walk almost anywhere. Today (Spain time), I walked to the Royal Botanic Gardens with my camera and only a 105mm macro lens ...









It was a lovely morning in the sunshine watching the emergence of spring in the gardens, but my favourite shot of the day was the one above ... a busker in the street on my way to the gardens. The guy is playing lovely jazz tunes on his sax, and is accompanied by his "singing" dog. Priceless!

I am always surprised by how versatile a macro lens can be, and how using this lens makes me have to think about where I am in relation to the thing I want to photograph. I love it. I'm all about the detail.

Have a lovely day!


4 comments:

mel @ loved handmade said...

Beautiful pictures, I do love that last one especially..x

Jane said...

Oh, I spent a week in Madrid around this time of year three years ago... thank you for transporting me back! I can practically smell those photos.

Lotti said...

Gorgeous photos ..... I had to laugh at the guy playing the Sax, with the dog 'singing' ... very cute. It's amazing what's out there in your community if you look. The flowers in your photos are beautiful ... love the pink ranuncula ... so pretty.

74 Lime Lane said...

How much would I love to see that guy and his dog!

Gorgeous photos Nic, flowers and macro are made for each other.