Tails From Provence

This week’s challenge for Sunday Stills was “Let’s Take a Closer Look.”  Macro time!  My initial reaction was to borrow one of the LSH’s big fancy cameras, but then I decided to see just what I could do with my Nikon Coolpix P300.

I had a very tolerant subject.

He was a little shy at first, but then the eyes came out for a look around

 he decided it was safe, and off he went

like a greyhound from a trap.

Sort of.

I think this leaf was a map, he seemed to be reading it for a while.

I tried one with the camera’s built-in flash.  I probably blinded the poor chap, but apart from the blown out highlights on the shell, it seemed to sharpen things up a bit.  I think if I could have angled the flash differently it would have worked better, but, even so, it really did pick up the colours.

I tried a few “face-on” shots, but was caught with depth of field on the antennae.

He was released back into our garden, after one final shot beside the iPhone for scale.