Gary - I missed it. Dang!
Peter - I'm pretty hard on myself with my images, it's the only way to get better!
I do tend to make a lot of my macro shots look easy because I've got a LOT of experience in the field, but it's taken a LOT of practice. These days I generally nail shots first time round, which is always nice I guess.
The old adage 'practice makes perfect' is so true. If you saw my first attempts at macro imaging, you'd laugh. I've come a long way, and I've been lucky enough to have been taught a lot by some very nice fellow macro images (Brian Valentine, aka LordV; Rick aka bald_eagle; frank aka hatch_1971; Omri Alon - can't remember his first name lol, he rarely mentions it). All of these guys post on POTN, with some also on FM. All of them are superb photographers, far better than me.
Dave