[clanny]

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.

[P-E]

Congrats on the new lens

[Lew]

Like the moth. Looks like you have a nice place to use that lens and a fabulous assistant.

[MarJus]

Nice set! I like the moth too!
The umbrella is different!

[AQ]

Nice set of pictures there. I am glad to see you managed to put you daughter to good use as well.

Having read you post I now have the image of you "crawling about on my stomach" when you say that "The ground was moving with them". Sounds like fun

[Rob Barron]

Doubt they were eggs this morning.... unless they decided to skip being tadpoles!

Great shots all, good to see the assistant dutifully carrying the heavy gear

Nice lens, you'll be very happy with it I'm sure.

Cheers,
Rob

[Charlotte]

Good set clanny; that first one is well framed, with the eye nicely in sharp focus

[aideyhoward]

It's a possibilty they was eggs as there are few species of frogs that go straight from egg to frog.
I like the photo of the umbrella bit different and the frog is also good.
O find it's sometimes easier to use manual focus when doing macro

[clanny]

Thanks for the comments guys (I was on holiday so am just catching up). My daughter and I had a great time taking these, so much so that all 5 of us went back out with the next night. The eggs comment was tongue in cheek to describe how small the frogs were.

The umbrella had just been abandoned in a tree and looked so odd I just had to try to capture it. I think I need to try and work more on my composition now.