It seems when it comes to macro photography the number one subject that photographers shoot is flower and followed by bugs. 

Flowers are beautiful colorful subjects that are easy to find and can be shot outside or inside making them the most popular subject to shoot.

I think people forget there are tons of other subjects to shoot when it comes to macro photography.

It can be lots of fun spending time in nature searching out all these examples of subjects you can shoot.

So many opportunities to photograph the many different kinds of leaves throughout the four seasons.

Head to a beach where you can photograph seashells or bird feathers lying on the sand.

In the Fall head to the woods to shoot mushrooms.

In the Fall head to the open fields and hopefully you have some Milkweed Pods.

Early Spring and summer we have Dandelion and Goatsbeard flower seedheads to shoot.

If you live in the north, during the cold winter you can find ice puddles and stream edges to shoot artistic ice images.

If you live in the south or west, you can photograph all the tropical or desert plant life.

Summertime brings out the spider webs.

I love shooting fiddleheads ferns in the woods.

There are all kinds of interesting plant life.

Rocks 

Tree Trunks

Seach out sun backlighting for shadows.

So as you can see, lots of great ideas for subject matter, and a great way to spend time in nature.  Mother nature provides us with all this amazing artwork.  Keep shooting your flowers and bug but expand to other subjects as well.

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In the San Diego Botanical Garden, I came across this interesting Agave plant. 

Here is the image of the plant.

If you look to the part of the plant just right of the center you see a form that looks like a swans head.  

I framed it so that the swans head was in the foreground of the frame and found an angle to the swans head so that the background was completely covered by the large leaves of the plant.

Shot at f/32 for max depth of field with a Tamron 18-300.

Post processed in Smart Photo Editor using a darken filter to give it a dramatic feel. 

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Took one of my Daliah images, cropped, sharpened, and mirrored it in Smart Photo Editor.  In January I will be presenting a zoom program showing my processing steps in Smart Photo Editor. 

Here's the original.

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I was shooting at the San Diego Botanical Gardens when I saw this flower and I thought it was a good subject for using the Zoom Blur filter in Photoshop.

Here is the original image, I started with some clean up with the specs of debris, and filled in the gaps between the petals showing any background, and did a slight crop.

After doing the clean up in Photoshop Elements, I then clicked on “Filters”.

In the next box place your cursor on “Blur”, and then click on “Radial Blur”.

In the next box look for “Zoom” and click the circle next to it.

Use the Amount slider to add or subtract the amount of the Zoom you want, and this is what I came up with.

After I got the zoom the way I wanted it, I went into Nik Softwares Viveza, and did some tweaking with the structure slider to bring out the details in the petals, and darkened and added structure in the dark center. Then popped the yellow a little more.

This effect works best with the flowers center placed in the middle of the frame like you see in these two images.

Here is another example.

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