A Beauty in Details - Macro Smartphone Photography

I love to walk in the field or forest. I can feel the fresh air, or hear the sound of the wind and the sound of gurgling water. The view, green trees, blue sky, colourful flowers, and all of the amazing creature, everything attracted me. But the most important thing, it reminds me of The Creator. In this case, I agree with Pat Buckley, He said, "I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds, and environment."

Nature is a gigantic library. It always shows a new thing, even in a small thing. It makes me think again, so many things that I don't know. So, it's always interesting to capture it in photos. 

Actually, I am not a professional photographer, I'm just fascinated to do it. Initially, the equipment that I used just a smartphone. I used the Samsung "J5". Till one day, I think I need the additional tools, so I checked the Internet and decided to buy a macro lens for a smartphone. 

So, here I wanna share some pictures that I took.

1. Lady Bug

This is a ladybug on tomato's leaf. Unfortunately, this cute ladybug is a pest. It causes damage to the stem, leaves, and fruits of tomato. Honestly, I also made a video of this ladybug, just a simple video, as I told you it's really cute. Maybe you can watch it later. 

The fact, this cute creature is from these "forms", look the picture below. A ladybug goes through the life cycle, a complete metamorphosis. 

Fortunately, I capture all life stage in one photo.

First stage

Second stage

Third stage

2. Thrips

It's thrips, a pest of Ficus benjamina (Weeping Fig). It causes Weeping Fig's leaves rolled up, and discolouration to the leaves (as picture).

It's tiny, the length is about 5 mm, and the width less than 1 mm. When I used the macro lens I saw the movement of the thrips. It moved its tail like a whip. 

3. Bug

Honestly, it's the first time saw this bug. Maybe, because it's tiny or may because it's rare, I never realize this bug. It's found in my father's plantation. 

4. Big Red Ant (Semut Rangrang)

Indonesian people called it semut rangrang. It's a "big" ant if we compare with the other ants. I found it on the lime tree. For me, it's hard to take the picture of this ant, because of it really active. 

5. Grasshoppers

I've written about the grasshopper, but I guess it's still incomplete. I mean, when I went to the plantation there's still another grasshopper as the picture. I know, the best way to collect grasshopper is using the sweeping net, not by hand (Yeah, I know, it's just me-.-).

It found on taro leaves and it's a pest. 

Although, it also found on other plants (Borreria laevis)

It's good in camouflage, particularly on banana leaves litter

The colour is bright

grasshopper on celery

Atractomorpha crenulata

6. Moth

A tiny white moth on the grass stem.

7. Spiders

I used to not pay attention to spiders until I concerned with macro photography. And here, I found several spiders. I think they're amazing. 

Spider from Salticidae family, it's about 1 cm

Cosmophasis umbratica

Cosmophasis umbratica

Spider from Salticidae family, it's about 1 cm

8. Walang Sangit (Leptocorisa acuta Thunberg)

It's found on spinach. There's more than ten Leptocorisa acuta-s in one spinach plant. 

9. Fly

I don't know, but in my opinion, even the fly, it looks beautiful. 

A fly on Borreria laevis

Musca domestica

Banana Stalk Fly (Telostylinus lineolatus)

10. Unidentified 

I have no idea about this species. Maybe because it's my first time to saw it.

11. The Wild Flowers

There's a lot of beautiful wildflowers. They have different colour, form and size. And here some of them. 

The Purple-Pink Flowers

Fringed Spider, Maman Ungu (Cleome rutidosperma)

Lilac Tasselflower, Tempuh wiyang (Emilia sonchifolia)

Ironweed, Sawi Langit (Vernonia albicans)

Doveweed, Rumput Tapak Burung/Rumput Lidah Lembu (Murdannia nudiflora)

The Yellow Flowers

Marsh Para Cress, Jotong Kecil (Acmella uliginosa)

Synedrella, Jotang Kuta/Babadotan lalaki, (Synedrella nodiflora)

Sembung (Blumea balsamifera)

Rorippa indica

The Red Flowers

Bayam Pasir (Cyathula prostrata)

The Blue Flowers

We knew that blue is rare in nature. But I guess know the reason because blue is magnificent,

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Sage river

Climbing Dayflower, Gewor (Commelina diffusa)

The Green Flower

Hyptis capitata

Bayam Pasir (Cyathula prostrata)

Peperomia pellucida

The Grass Flowers

Fimbristylis miliacea

Cyperus kyllingia

11. Zinnia

The last, here the zoom of a zinnia flower.

So, that's all. 

I have a conclusion, that everything reminds us...

"He Who created all the things in the best way..."(al-Sajdah 32:7). 

"Thus, everything in the universe has been created beautiful, with purpose and in proportion and measure, both qualitatively and quantitatively"(al-Qamar 54:49).

Note:
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