San Antonio Botanical Garden - March 2016
Upon returning to the San Antonio Botanical Gardens, I had the opportunity to practiced the newly-learned technique of freelensing to capture macro photographs with a DSLR camera, which would produce dream-like photos.
The Plants
The overcast sky doesn’t always yield good lighting for photography, but the recent drizzle on the flora provided an opportunity for the new photography technique. Lichen and moss also unveiled more detail than I’ve seen before:
The Flowers
Although I’ve seen many of these flowers before, the freelensing technique showed the intricate details inside them, including some bluebonnets and poppies:
The Critters
Along the path, I came across a few snails, an odd beetle, several centipedes, a chrysalis, a random swarm of bees, and a swallow rebuilding its nest:
If the flowers were blooming then the bugs came out in swarms, and this attracted dozens of lizards. Many of the green ones were flaunting their throat-frill, and the thorny ones were strutting their stuff by doing push-ups, which I managed to recreate a GIF of it bobbing up and down:
I only used the OLYMPUS E-500 DSLR camera during this trip, which allowed me to detach the lens and create some stunning macro shots that were not initially feasible for this camera. The potential disadvantage of freelensing is the risk of dust getting into the camera and on the sensor, so I had to use extreme caution when traveling throughout the Garden.
