Starting from the top:
The Cricket-
I saw this cricket sitting on a white dhalia in my friends garden in France. I had to get in close and take the picture. At first he kept trying to get out of the way but I backed off enough so that he wasn't so scared. I took the photo in macro mode on the Canon 450D. I was so impressed by the results! He is definitely a very fine looking cricket- and he was huge too!
The Bumble Bee-
I was taking several photographs of different flowers in my friends garden and whilst I was doing so a busy bee came along and started to collect pollen from the flowers I was photographing. I was so pleased, but could not get in close enough to take a better picture, plus he was so busy it was hard to get a decent photo. I think the resulting image is ok though.
The Tiny Green Frog-
My boyfriend spotted this on the grass in France. I don't know how he did because he was only about 3 or 4 centimetres long! He was very good for me though and quite happily sat there posing for me. He didn't even get annoyed when I got in nice and close. Maybe he was petrified of me but I prefer to think he was happy to be photographed! The resulting images were very good in my opinion. I picked my two favourites for this blog.