Into the Macro World

Today I decided to focus on using the Super Macro setting on my camera. I got the idea when I saw a bunch of Reindeer Lichen and Haircap Moss growing amid each other on my favorite overlook in Ballard Park. I was thinking about how much like some sort of exotic jungle moss looks when you look at it in macro. So lets go walk in a macro jungle!

Reindeer Lichen:




Haircap Moss:


with a mysterious jungle creature!

And more Haircap Moss:


That was all in Ballard Park. Down the road and around the corner next to the Green Bridge over Gooseneck Cove is a patch of Haircap Moss, an unknown plant that I think is another kind of moss, and some Mouse-ear Chickweed:




This is the unknown:


All together now:


Around the corner on Ocean Drive are several patches of Thyme-leaved Speedwell. The flowers are tiny, less than 1/8 inch. No, it's not a kind of Nettle; those things that look like a Nettle's stickers are actually just hairs on the hairy leaves. That's how small all this is and how much we've blown it up in macro mode!


And around the corner and up the hill to the old stone wall on Hammersmith Rd. There's lots of Haircap Moss growing along the top of the wall:




And that's our walk through the exotic Macro Moss Jungle.