I grabbed a few of these over at Shrine Lake on a reversed Sigma 18-50mm with a Canon T1i body. I hope you enjoy:

In this site’s about section we discuss why to use a reverse macro lens, so I thought it would be important to get some comparison shots with real macro lens at a close to the same magnification.
Here is a sample of the difference on a Canon Xt shooting a Canon 100mm Macro vs a Reversed [...]

I took this the other day in a garden of a friend of mine. They were shot a reversed 18-50mm sigma lens and a Canon T1i body. I am fairly happy how the $70 lens turned out as a macro lens.
Rose Pedals:

Bee Collecting Pollen:

Rose Bud:

motleypixel.com has a great DIY macro lighting tutorial video up on youtube using a beer can, and some foam packaging and a milk jug. Not a bad idea to get the light diffused for Reverse Macro Lens Photography in a studio setting.  He shows some sample shots in the video between a flash, no [...]

Well Speaking of remote shutter releases…
There was an article on Digital Photography School where the author created a remote shutter release using a doorbell system.

It is a pretty interesting concept, and a fairly clean setup.  The tutorial goes into detail on how to on how to build your own.
Please check out the author’s flickr photo [...]