Thursday morning garden update for #POBphotocontest

Good day , this morning it was still cold in the garden and lot's of dewdrops to be found as you can see further down the post.

I was also glad to see that the caterpillar was still alive and growing.
Hopefully we can watch it grow into a butterfly one day.
The Papilio machaon caterpillar is starting to look more green, no idea how much longer it wil take until it turns in to a pupa .

The first post and second post about the Papilio machaon caterpillar are more then 2 weeks ago.

So these might be the last Photo's before it turns into a pupa.

ISO 400 1/160 f8 5x magnification

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

Time for some flowers with dewdrops on them, the first one is a tiny rose in a heart shape with dew drops

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

Same tiny rose differen angle different development settings , always hard to pick the red tone you want.

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

Next one is a marigold flower bud with dew drops , [ hard to see because of the image resize of hive ]

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

More dew drops on marigold flower opening up

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

And some dew drops on marigold flower petals

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

Veronica spicata / ereprijs with dewdrops

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

Veronica spicata / ereprijs with dewdrops same flowers seen from above

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

Anemone flower petall with dew drops , you can see the drops and hairs on the petal

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

and finally the Xerochrysum bracteatum / strobloem , dewdrops on the flower bud , due to the low DOF it's not possible to get the whole flower bud in focus even on f8 .

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

and more dew drops on a Xerochrysum bracteatum flower

ISO 400 1/160 f8 2.5x magnification

All images are created by me with my Sony A7II + Laowa Venus 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5x Ultra Macro with 2.5 - 5x magnification + Godox tt685s flashunit and Pringlers diffuser + Laowa LED ring

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where you find more of this kind of photography.

People say you must have a realy big garden to be able to find all these subjects well truth is it really ain't that big .

the stones on the path way are 60*40 cm

I just planted one plant of each variety that i liked most are done flowering or didn't flower this year because of the draught.

But it's the difference in varieties that get's me so many insects in the garden for macro photography.

And i still want to plant something with more height either bamboo or some other grass or maybe a small tree i will decide in spring after the bulbs have flowerd.

That reminds me , i need to plant the bulbs i bought in the garden 🤣🤣

The last photo's are created with the Sony A6000 + Rokkor 28mm

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@dswigle oops i did it again :)