Category Archives: Macro Monday
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Macro Monday: Buglet vs. Mini-HDMI
5Monday 18 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Sat on a beach, waves lapping the shore, head on a book, bug on a lead. This is my entry …
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Macro Monday: Bees in the orchard
4Monday 11 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Time for another Macro Monday…. and for this week we have a shot taken by a friend of ours who …
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Macro Monday: First Apricot
7Monday 28 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Not very clear I’m afraid, but this was taken a couple of weeks back, and was the very first apricot …
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Macro Monday: Plum blossom in the rain
3Monday 14 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Macro Monday: Young Iguana
5Monday 07 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Found this young fella in one of the orange trees close to the house the other day. Not often do …
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Macro Monday: Broccoli Flowers
6Monday 29 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Macro Monday: Ladybird/bug
19Monday 18 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Depending on where you are from, you’d know this as a Ladybird (UK), or a Ladybug (US). Here we call it …
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Macro Monday: Poppy base
2Monday 11 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Macro Monday: Finger puppet?
5Monday 04 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Here’s a friendly little praying mantis… We get these a lot around here, and I’m truly fascinated by them. They …
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Macro Monday: Fig leaf bud
5Monday 28 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Macro Monday: Callistemon
1Monday 21 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My Macro Monday this week is a favourite of mine, and captures the beauty of the Callistemon, or Bottlebrush. Hope …
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Macro Monday: Softness
4Monday 14 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
. We have a fair amount of these grasses dotted around the ‘house garden’ on the farm. Each year I …
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Macro Monday: Greek Island Thistle
5Monday 07 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s Macro Monday image is part of a thistle, growing on a mountainside in one of the Greek islands. …
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Macro Monday: Giraffe’s eyelashes
10Monday 30 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
How about this as my entry for Macro Monday this week. It’s a rather interesting close-up shot of the eyelashes …
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Macro Monday: New strange bug!
24Monday 23 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This weekend I was happily winding down after a long session doing some more serious chores in the garden itself, …
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Macro Monday: Cherry tomato
3Monday 16 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My entry for Macro Monday this week is a simğple shot of the top of a small little sweet cherry …
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Macro Monday: Another fly
12Monday 09 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
For Macro Monday this week, I have selected another ‘fly’ shot. It’s not in perfect focus I think, and perhaps stretching the …
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Macro Monday: Lizard scales
4Monday 02 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
For my Macro Monday this week, here’s some lizard scales… creepy perhaps (for some), but love to photograph these creatures!. …
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Macro Monday: Mr McFly
6Monday 26 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
For my Macro Monday entry this week, here is a little chap who was having a staring competition with me …
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Macro Monday: The Wasp Mk II
1Monday 19 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having another spot of breakfast, on a Sunday this week, and yet another young wasp decided to join in the …
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Macro Monday: Fly inspects autumn colours
1Monday 12 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is my entry for Macro Monday for this week. Hope you all enjoy it! SPIKE
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Macro Monday: The Wasp
1Monday 05 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having a spot of breakfast on Saturday, and a young wasp decided that the honey was just too delicious to …
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Macro Monday: Tiny Beauty
4Monday 28 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Sometimes it’s the tinniest flowers that are the most beautiful. I bought a cheap tripod a few months ago, but …
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Macro Monday: Locust
7Monday 21 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Locusts are regular visitors to our farm; not on any biblical scale, but just enough for the chickens to chase, …
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Macro Monday: Watermelon flower
3Monday 14 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Following on from the pumpkin flower, here is its neighbour, a tiny, simple and elegant flower from a watermelon plant. …
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Macro Monday: Damselfly
14Monday 07 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
These are my Macro Monday images for this week, taken by my wife on an LG-G2 phone. Hope you all …
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Macro Monday: Phlox subulata
4Monday 31 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is my entry for Macro Monday for this week. I ‘think it is a spot of Phlox subulata… What …
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Macro Monday: Pumpkin flower
3Monday 24 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
On a spare bit of land I planted a few pumpkin seeds. We don’t usually have much luck with them …
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Macro Monday: Semi-transparent bug
8Monday 17 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This former, ex, gone, departed, or just plain dead bug has joined us this week for Macro Monday. From its …
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Macro Monday: Mr McFly
2Monday 10 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Like most fruit and veg, tomatoes require a fair degree of maintenance, and picking off damaged or diseased fruit is …
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Macro Monday: Mini-Dinosour
10Monday 03 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
These tiny Gecko’s are always around from May until perhaps November. Often found coming out from behind light fittings or other hidey holes to munch …
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Macro Monday: Aubergine flower
2Monday 27 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This young bee seems to have taken a liking to this rather pretty aubergine or eggplant flower! This is my entry …
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Macro Monday: Baby Aubergine
3Monday 20 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This cute little baby Aubergine is my entry for Macro Monday this week. Strange to think that these will grow, …
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Macro Monday: White Grapes
4Monday 13 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
These still very small white grapes are still a couple of months away from maturity. Can’t wait 🙂 Anyway, this is …
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Macro Monday: Another baby orange
11Monday 06 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
People say I have green fingers. Well, as you can see, perhaps not green, just dirty! Now, apart from my …
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Macro Monday: Mulberry
6Monday 29 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Simple shot of an almost ripe Mulberry. This is my entry for Macro Monday for this week. Hope you all enjoy …
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Macro Monday: Baby Cucumber
13Monday 22 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Slightly spikey, a bit furry, with a big flower as a crown; yep it’s one of those baby cucumbers! This …
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Macro Monday: Pomelo
6Monday 15 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This the skin of a Pomelo . It’s nowhere near fully grown yet. These fruit will be well over a …
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Macro Monday: Sid the Spider
9Monday 08 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
One of our regular visitors is this week’s entry for Macro Monday
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Macro Monday: Aphids
11Monday 01 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This weeks entry for Macro Monday is all about those little things in life, namely aphids… Much of inner garden …
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Macro Monday: Mohican Iris
6Monday 25 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Following on from recent posts about our first ever Iris, I was able to get out there and snap a …
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Macro Monday: The rosebud
3Monday 18 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is my simple entry for Macro Monday this week. Hope you all enjoy it! SPIKE
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Macro Monday: Nature’s best
2Monday 11 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Weeds are not always just that. The first image was taken in the orchard a few weeks ago (now all …
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Macro Monday: Single thread
3Monday 04 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
For this week’s entry for Macro Monday, I have tried to capture a single thread that a young arachnoid placed …
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Macro Monday: Cute little weed
4Monday 27 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This beautiful little flower is in fact from a weed found growing in between the beetroot plants this spring. Tiny, …
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Macro Monday: Baby plums
14Monday 20 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My posting for Macro Monday. Hope you all like it 🙂 . . The plum trees are one of the …
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Macro Monday: ‘Weeds with the leeks’
7Monday 06 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday There has been an enormous amount of rain here in southwest Türkiye this …
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Macro Monday: ‘New Pommie Leaves’
2Monday 30 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday These are some of the first leaves on the pomegranate bushes this year. …
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Macro Monday: ‘First Clementine leaves’
4Monday 23 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday The new season and the new leaves are starting to appear in the …
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Macro Monday: ‘Plum Blossom’
2Monday 16 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Here is my posting for Macro Monday For a change, the plum trees were not the first to go into …
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