Where I live only a few wood louse, some worms, and the occasional small beetle are still around, in this post I am hoping that some more creative people can tell us what you shoot at this time of year. All ideas are greatly appretiated.
There are still lots of bugs around as long as it's not actually freezing, but you do need around 2 to 4X mag as many are rather small- eg bark flies, springtails etc.
Inside you can play with water drop refractions or splash shots, soap bubbles including the interference patterns, bought flowers, smoke, food colouring or inks dropped into water, thin plastic stress patterns using polarising films,
I second Brian's recommendations. In past years I used to occasionally dig in leaf litter around this time of year - usually finding things like springtails, but lately I have spent it on water drops. Also here in the PNW (Seattle) we have a lot of mushrooms right now.
Besides the large amount of time with water drops, I am also preparing a system for capturing insects in flight that I should have ready in time for spring.
Whatever you can find. Shooting rocks in a stream a week or two ago. I used to really dread winter, I freaked out and bought supplies for painting one year. Now I don't worry about it as much. Snow and ice can be interesting as well
Julian:
If you wish to do macro, there are a whole slew of objects and tools and frozen weeds, etc. Along with frost patternsa and ice crystals.
Douglas
