31/07/2018
Rainy Season, Its time for Macro!!!
Pune is usually blessed with good monsoon and so is this year. It has rained well so far and every inch of open space is filled with lush green grass and colorful bushes. It's so soothing to eyes.
Last week, I suddenly noticed these teeny tiny flowers on the way to my little one's school. You won't believe, none of them is as big as small finger nail, though appearing big here. Macro technique makes it appear that big. One of them is actually ant size. No wonder, I did not notice them for so long. I had actually gone to photograph one particular flower, but when I kneeled down on the ground to get closer to the flower, I noticed whole universe of tiny flowers growing around, which is so obvious to miss otherwise. It was a jackpot for me getting so many interesting tiny subjects to capture when I expected just one, but it was really windy to capture the flower still. Now that I know there is whole tiny world existing there, I indeed calls for a revisit with proper planning and better preparation. Thinking of visiting different places around Pune to capture this tiny beauty. If you happened to know any such place then please do leave the name in comments below.
Its ideal to use a macro lens to photograph such objects, but well, I don't have one. I used a reverse mounting ring for my Nikon 50mm 1.8G and bit of hit and miss, as I did not have autofocus at my disposal. Blowing wind made it worse, but still could get away with some images.
