Ohh, that's lovely. Nice composition, and I love the fact that it's all blue. I love macros. *_* Though, is this a macro, or just a very large snowflake? I assume the former because I have never seen one that big before, but then, we don't get snow that often.

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Thanks!

Haha, yeah, it's definitely very macro. "No way, I had to use my wide-angle lens for this - that's like my whole back yard!". It's big for a snow flake, but still pretty tiny.

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I'll tell you what...taking images of snowflakes is absolutely much harder than I thought. I'm VERY new at the whole macro thing, and am trying to find inspiration to keep going. It's not easy!! This is beautiful, and thank you for posting it.

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Glad you like it. With most of my macro I don't use a tripod, but with snow flakes it's very necessary (especially with the added macro of the closeup lens). I recommend getting a 1:1 macro lens, and when you're using a tripod, use the 2 second timer, so you don't touch the camera at all while it's taking the picture. Maybe you already know all that, but just in case...

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You kids and your photographic talents and fancy camera speak. Why, back in my day we had to carve our photographs into wood using nothing but a matchstick and a pair of tweezers.

Anyway, you have an eye for spotting good subjects and the like, dude. Possibly even two of them! Highly diggable.

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Haha, thanks. When exactly was your day? Sometimes between the Neanderthals and the invention of the tweezer?

I have two of them, but they both only work half the time (seriously, I often have one of my eyes really hurting for no reason when I'm out taking pictures). So it evens out to about 0.75 of an eye... Depending how you count it.

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Thank you so much for all the advice. I really don't know a darn thing...I'm reading tons of articles and really trying. I'm not in the position to get a new lens. ( unless I want a divorce, which I don't) Thanks so much for your words.

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No problem! I actually started out with the cheaper route to macro: $20 extension tubes. They're incredibly inconvenient, but they work! (For instance: [link] ). I got them on eBay, and used them with an old 35-70mm zoom lens that someone gave me. All you need is a fairly telephoto lens (I guess even 50mm would work, but 70-100 would be better), that has an aperture ring. The reason they're only $20 is that they don't transfer anything from the camera to the lens, which is why you need an aperture ring on the lens. This also means that the camera doesn't record the aperture in the meta data, and when you change the aperture the camera doesn't keep it open, so you have to frame the picture, then change the aperture, then take the picture. All this is why I eventually did buy a $300 (used) macro lens, but as I said, it does work, and it's cheap!

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wonderful !!! This is the best snow flake shot

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Thanks!! And thanks for the favorite too!

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