My macro lens takes awesome pictures of bugs-I get details I can’t even see in person. We must have lucked into just the right conditions, because we managed to encounter all of these little guys in one walk.   The toddler found a few mosquitoes, too. Welts the size of quarters from those suckers!

This one is admittedly kind of gross, but I still love it:

With this one, I actually like the disappearing flower more than the butterfly:

This one I consider another reason that sometimes it is awesome to shoot in automatic (but maybe this is possible in manual? I still don’t know what I don’t know.):