jdeanb Loc: Texas / central

My grandson is home from college and looked at some of my Macros photo and was so impressed with what he saw he wanted to try his hand with my setup holding free hand. the second one is a shot of a petrified rock that is in my back yard that was at one time a post under the front porch where I lived as a kid. It is about 18 inches in diameter and 4 ft long. I never realized it had crystal in it until Chanse took this photo. I think the rainbow effect was probably created by the flash. This rock has a long history with my family as my dad found it in a creek on the property of my Great granddad. He dug it out and he and his brother some how loaded it on a wagon pulled by 2 horses and took it to his dad's house they were building to use as front porch post. They was wondering how they could cut it in half as was about 8 feet long and weighted about several hundred pounds. When they unloaded it rolling it of the wagon it hit the ground and broke half into within 2 inches. The part I got is the small end. At one time this creek was full of petrified rock but over the years it has all been removed except small pieces.

Butter fly almost same color as background


rainbow effect from crystal

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

Your rock photo may be a macro, but your butterfly image is definitely a close-up, not a macro. Remember, a macro means life-size on sensor. A quarter coin fills sensor side-to-side at true macro. Your butterfly is larger than a quarter.

17-mm Dime & 24-mm Quarter macro field on a Nikon APS-C sensor at MFD