Another close up from yesterday. BTW deadline for posting is June 20th at Midnight in Texas.

Great entry AndyCT! Other succulents are often built very interesting in the close view. Why don´t I grow more of those anyway?

New growth on the spineless form of Puna bonniae

Hi Dan , that one is much better! I would have suggested that you might think about replacing it with a better exposure too. I really like the subject you chose! about Rimacactus: I took a picture of my 4 month old seedlings today. Let´s see if I can manage to post it today. edit: Here they are (I h...

Nice " smiley" Andy. Just have a vote off on your facebook account, haha.

@Cactus Fan Dan: Very nice subject Dan ! The photo is a little bit out off focus isn´t it?

Another close up flower two days ago

I sowed about 40 seeds this spring and some 15 or so germinated. I keek spraying them in an open plastic baggy. The small seedlings look shrunken but most of them well.... well so far they do.

This one survived about a year

No need for a flower to take a great Makro Shot!

PS the E. laui on it´s own roots is amazing. Don´t water too much and don´t put it in full sun. Rimacactus lives in those cracks of the rocks with some condensating water running down but no rain ever.

I coould have used that on that very DEAD Tephrocactus, Dave. Too bad it ran out of stock....But the point I was going to make was that the one in the first picture looks quite unique with all those brown fungus hyphae around its stem segments :shock: Heres one more Macro shot of today

Yeah I think I saw that Manhattan- Style flower in another thread somewhere. Nice one Dave.

Dead plants don´t have to be ugly all of the time.... But most of the times they are....

Bigger isn´t always better- but it should be an unusual view of things (in this case plants). Great picture entries everybody.
I tried some more close ups today

Taken without a tripod in the evening sun

majcka wrote:Does that count as close up too?

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That is my younger son taking picture of himself.

Only counts if he is succulent enough (just joking Maja)

I think we shouldn´t draw the line between close up and true Macro Photography too closely. Your great picture of R. heliosa also shows some features of the flower one wouldn´t normally notice with plain sight.

Good start of the contest . Those two pictures allready show the range of this month topic. If you go close enought we will get a competley different view of our favourites. Unfortunately with this lens (40mm), this is about maximum enlargement, but it still makes an interesting view of the tiny Epi...

This is the place to discuss all the Macro- and Close Up shots that were being entered and also talk about Macro Photography in general.
Have fun with this one too.