If we look more closely, we can find a new world open up to us.  All we have to do is look down in front of us.  Children are great at it because they are closer to the ground.  Everything fascinates them; therefore, they notice things that we adults do not even see.

What if we would take the time and see what is in our gardens, what is in the grass.  If we just lay down on the grass, we would be instantly connected to the nature, and to the world that we forgot about.  Let’s take our shoes off and hear the earth and notice different inhabitants in the grass and flowers.

Photography is a great way to notice many things, and in macrophotography, we make the smallest creatures big.  We magnify them.  Some of these creatures look like a cartoon, some of them look like an alien, some of them are so colorful, and some of them are so well camouflaged, that it is hard to see.  The only give away is if our eyes meet theirs.  The captured flowers become bigger that we want to smell and touch them.  The petals look so soft.

There is an intriguing world out there if we just stop and notice little things.

Look at intricacy of these little snow-white blossoms.

Monarch butterfly is enjoying Milkweed.  Look at those polka dots on the wings and body.

A curly young palm tree branch

Lady bug in the coming out sunshine.

This one is a curious creature.  It looks like a spider, but it is not.  It is capable of walking in the water.  It’s a water strider.  I aligned sun’s reflection in the water with the strider to have the star effect on its feet.

A beautiful American Lady butterfly.  Also called American Painted Lady.

Now that’s what I call camouflage. Katydid on a leaf.

White Peacock Butterfly with back-lit wings.  This sight really warms you up, isn’t it?

That’s a really well camouflaged butterfly, too.

I know, spiders to some are creepy.  However, they are great because they eat harmful insects.  This one is called Golden-Silk Spider.  Just look at those legs.

Drumming.  I love colors on these Southeastern Lubber Grasshoppers.  They are huge in size.

This one is an Imperial Moth.  It is giant Silkmoth, and it is one of the largest silkmoths in Florida that can reach 5″.

Another colorful spider against pink flower background.

Do you know that dragonflies come in pretty red color?  This is a male Scarlet Skimmer.  Dragonflies are great because they eat mosquitoes.

A close-up of Eastern Pond-hawk.  Just look at the detail of those wings and colors.

Little snail in the sunshine.

Blue Dasher dragonfly on my finger.

Now this creature looks like an alien, isn’t it?  Look at those eyes!  It is a Robber Fly.

A bug hiding from the rain in the rose.

Rain drops on spider web make it magical.

It looks like frog enjoying a bubble bath.

Green anoles are Florida’s natives.  Do you know they can change color to camouflage themselves?  They can go from green to brown instantly.

Not to confuse with Cuban Brown Anole who is native to the islands of the West Indies.  They believed to arrive in Florida through tropical plant nurseries.  They also can change color from brown to black, but never to green.

This one I call “Dear God, please send me some flies.”  Look at that concentration.

Macrophotography taught me a lot about smaller creatures.  It is great not only to notice them, but to learn something about them.  Next time, you go by the garden, take a closer look and see what it lurking there and see what you can capture.