A few years after I bought my digital camera I bought a macro lens kit for it. It opened up a whole other world for me. A world of textures, patterns and things I can't see plainly with my naked eyes. To be able to discern the texture of a flower petal, see that some patterns are actually embossed on a leaf, or actually make out the structure of some finely spined cacti like Mammillaria theresae or Mammillaria luethyii. WOW!!!!!!
     Some of my finest photos are macro shots. And I'm sharing some of the best ones here. You'll find additional macro shots in the Spination Gallery.

An Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus about a nickels width across	Astrophytum myriostygma columnare 'minima', heads about the size of a pencil eraser	A single felty areole of an Astrophytum myriostygma quadricostatum 'Onzuka'	Two tiny offsets coming out of a the stump of a de-grafted Astrophytum myriostygma 'Haku-un'
A small offset of an Astrophytum myriostygma 'Lotus Land'	Astrophytum ornatum seedlings no larger than a pinhead	A tiny flower bud at the tip of an 1/8" thick stem of Avonia meyeri	New growth and tiny toothlike spines on an Aztekium ritteri
New growth at the tip of a small "Saguaro" (Carnegia gigantea)	The marvelously sculpted stems of Crassulla lycopoides	The alsmost clothlike texture of a Crassulla 'Pagoda'	Color and texture of a Crassulla rupestris variegata
The bizzare crystal like flower of a Dorstenia	Close up of an Echeveria flower	An even closer view of another Echeveria flower	Pinky sized offsets of an Echinopsis 'Haku jo'
A tiny rooted offset of Eriosyce napina	Closeup of a half dollar sized Eriosyce odieri	The color and patterning of a Euphorbia obesa	A tiny Euphorbia obesa seedling
The tiny flowers of Euphorbia rossii	Closeup of the translucent stems of Fenestraria rhopalophylla (Baby Toes)	A view of the reason for naming this Gasteria Cultivar 'Little Warty'	A view of the growing tip of a Hoodia macrantha
The texture of a Huernia schneiderana flower	A close as you can get to a Huernia thurettii flower	A view of the corolla of a Huernia zebrina flower	The tiny white flowers and buds of a Kalanchoe luciae "Flapjack Plant"
Furry texture of a Kalanchoe milotti leaf	A high res closeup of a Lapidaria margaretae flower	One of the tiniest of cactus, Mammillaria theresae	Fruits popping on a Melocactus matanzanus
Melocactus matanzanus flowers, about 1/4 inch across	Melocactus matanzanus seedlings, no larger than a pin head	The felty flecked texture of a Nananthus aloiodes leaf	A view inside an Orbea variegata flower
A tiny flower bud forming on an Orbeanthus hardyi	Another high res Mesemb closeup, Schwantesia borcherdsii	The warty blue green leaves of Titanopsis calcareae	Spine like projections of Trichodiadema densum leaves