Kinross Camera club has an exciting itinerary of locations which we
will be visiting during the summer months. So far we have had photography
evening meet ups in Kinghorn, Kinclaven Bluebell Woods, Portmoak Moss, North
Queensferry and Tentsmuir Forest. All ability levels are welcome at our meet
ups. A few of the evenings have been designed with beginner photographers in
mind where we will have a few more experienced members available to assist with
learning about camera functions and creative techniques such as long exposure and ICM ( Intentional Camera Movement ).

The featured images this month are macro and micro photographs expertly
created by our member Francis Principe-Gillespie who has also kindly written a
short description to give us an insight into his work.

The difference between macro and micro can sometimes be a little
difficult to quantify. As with so many instances in life a picture can speak a
thousand words. So to that end here are some examples. The first, a daffodil is
at the lower end magnification and arguably borderline macro. The next the
branch is a 1:2 macro that shows the emerging stigmas of Wych Elm flowers on a
small branch and the third is a close up of the stigma with the female
finger-like papillae that trap the pollen and the swollen male anthers before they release their pollen, definitely micro. These
images were taken to assist the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Scottish Plant
Recovery project https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38649 . Finally a link https://cleish.org/page7.html that shows a macro of a (sadly extinct in the 1840s) British butterfly
Lycaena Dispar Dispar that you can zoom into any part of to view it at micro
scale. This was made up of over 12,000 photographs and then assembled as a
mosaic. There are many different techniques used in these images but for
microscopy the biggest challenges are movement (both of the subject and the
necessary movement of the camera) and lighting. The rest is patience and lots
of time to process the hundreds and often thousands of images