Macro photos at the park

I went to a park recently to take some photos of random stuff and I realized that parks are a good place to take photos of nature. Since we don't have a garden with flora, nor some woods nearby, parks are one of the ways I can take macro photos more specifically flowers. I like them as a subject especially when there are tiny lil insects that you didn't realize they were there while looking using your naked eye. xD

Like this one, I didn't notice there was a tiny insect flying towards the plant until I saw the photo in my laptop.

It went inside. :D

Being a noob in macro photography, I ALWAYS forget to make the aperture smaller to let more area sharp. As you can see here, I just spammed the lens with the lowest (most open) aperture so even though I can get things in focus, there's just a tiny bit of the sharp ones and the rest are blurred out haha.

Here is how it looked like cropped.

When I realized this, I quickly turned the aperture higher. I think I took this at f/11. Since the sunlight was direct on the flower, I was able to do it with a higher aperture and higher speed. I need to experiment on the shutter speed and aperture and ISO settings tho, macro's settings are really different with portraits and landscapes.

This is a cropped version of the previous photo. I don't know what that white crystal is... Geez even insects are getting it nowadays.

This one was quite strange and obviously I don't know what that is haha. I just like to take pics of pretty stuff. :D

It was a really cloudy day so there was only a few times the sun came out to give me some dramatic light.

And last one is a pretty nice flower that I found on the ground. Love seeing some random pinks on the ground when you least expect it. :D