Playing with my macro lense

Wayne gave me an amzing present for my birthday...a macro lens and I am loving it.  Below are a selection of photos...from our trip home for Christmas.

                                                        Fresh strawberries in Beth's garden.

A geranium in David's garden.

Paspalam seed.

a lonely lavender flower head.

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Kowhai seep pod.

Honey bee on a grape leaf.

Kowhai seed hiding in the grass.

A portrait shot, Wayne in a pohutakawa tree.

Shells on our beach.

Pohutukawa flower - our Christmas flower.

Monarch butterfly.

The egg she laid.

Nature just continually throws up some amazingly creative  scenes.

 Bumble bee on a scotch thistle.

A close up of the scotch thistle.

The koru pattern in a ponga fern unfolding.

Another koru.

A cats eye snail trying to right itself.

Pollen on the bumble bee.