Garden photography

One of my pleasures is taking macro photos around the garden during weekends, this time I had some fun with a praying mantis, a juvenile one that obliged by sitting still on top of a rhodohypoxis flower

Praying mantis posing

However with the camera so close to the insect it could not resist the temptation to jump the gap
 

A small cecile brunner rose bud up close

Tiny cecile brunner rose bud

And the front end of a cabbage white butterlfy

Cabbage white up close