Contest 79 : Close Up

[Jens]

June 2013 - Close Up
Making small things big.
Note:
Remember, along with each contest is a seperate thread for discussion and posting all your "other" pics, Click here


Prize:
To the winner goes, A $10 gift certificate towards any CoronaCactus.com purchase. (Plants, tools, Pots, labels, etc.)
NOTE: For members outside of the USA non-plant prizes can only be awarded.

Deadline:
for submissions will be June 20 th at 12 o´clock midnight Central Standard Time
Reference:
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Good Luck to all!!

John C and Jens

[MJPapay]

Okay, I'll break the ice with this photo from my old place in 2008...

[Saxicola]

Aloinopsis setifera

[DaveW]

Thelocactus bicolor ssp. commodus.

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[Tony]

Dudleya brittonii between cloud bursts.

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[*Barracuda_52*]

Astro Onzuka. Always click pic for better viewing..

[peterb]

Echinofossulocactus zacatecasensis, 18 months.

[CactusFanDan]

Fockea edulis caudex

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[K.W.]

Ferocactus wislizenii var. herrerae, picture from the 10th of June 2013

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Best regards

K.W.

[gemhunter178]

A struggling Opuntia pad, showing some roots:

[fanaticactus]

Spring awakening on a Tacinga inamoena

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[Robb]

melocactus spine detail

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[Andy_CT]

Sempervivum flower buds

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[GeneS]

Not macro but a quick and close look at something that caught my eye in the greenhouse ... just lurking there in the late afternoon light.

Micranthocereus flaviflorus ssp. densiflorus - seed ex CSSA seed bank as HU221 (flowering out of season and, from the back edges of the cephalium?)

[Edit] name corrected when the poster woke up! attachment name is incorrect. [/Edit]

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Cheers ... GeneS

[SnowFella]

As close as I can get without dedicated macro lenses, from earlier tests it's near 2:1 magnification.
O. microdasys rufida areole up close without crop.


Just a same the DOF is so shallow that only part of the glochnids ended up in focus and it's darn hard to light properly without a flash.