July Monthly Theme. Summer is the time for searching out the open fields for wildflower, so post your summer wildflowers.

For Macro Club Members, post your images in the, Mike Moats Macro Photo Club's facebook group.

The winner of the contest for the Acratech Ballhead is Jayne Harris, I've posted her winning bug image below.

The month of July is my annual macro contest for a Tamron Lens. This year, Tamron is offering a 70-210 lens ($799) which also has 1:3 macro capabilities. The contest theme is Macro Abstracts. Send five of your most interesting abstracts in small file size to my email at, mgmoats@yahoo.com

July zoom program Gerri Jones, Photographing Refracted Glassware with Reflections. July 17th 2pmEST. For zoom link, send me an email at, mgmoats@yahoo.com

Photographing glassware can be challenging. Finding new ways to get creative with it even more so. Join Gerri Jones as she demonstrates her approach to photographing glassware using colorful backgrounds and reflections on a surface. No fancy studio or lighting required!

I've recently uploaded some new videos in the, "Tips From the Field" category.

For those who have signed up for the lifetime membership in the Macro Photo Club, when you signed up you were sent a welcome email that contained the links to the four categories of video. That is how you access the videos. It says in the email to save that email and it is how you access the videos whenever you need to view them.