Went out tonight to a local pond to see if I could find any dragon flies to shopot with my new sigma 105mm f2.8 macro. When we got there the ground was covered in what we first thought were spiders, and then we though they were flies of some sort. On closer inspection they turned out to be frogs. More like froglets tbh. The ground was moving with them and they were all so small they must have been eggs this morning. The one pictured here is sat on my 58mm UV filter to give it some scale.
Spent a great couple of hours crawling about on my stomach trying to get some good shots of them. Here's what I came up with from the trip. The last one is my favourite and it was just a snap as my daughter went to walk across a field hence why there's a blade of grass in the way and it's not perfectly sharp (my new lens is painfully slow to focus and I hadn't brought any other lenses). All in all I'm really chuffed with how the lens performed. It will take some time to get used to it and I think I need to get down to the frogs again to see if I can get something really special. Trouble is, they don't sit still for long :lol: . No wonder, at that size they could get eaten by a beetle!
There are larger pictures in my gallery.
C&C always welcome.
