Woodlouse

Cheers John, much appreciated, and thank you for the extra education, that's what is so great about this forum, everybody, well almost everybody:D are willing to help, not just on the photography side of things!:)

I really like the shot that includes a bit of moss. When I was a kid we called them "rollie polies" for their propensity to roll into a ball when threatened.

Really great macros! I particularly like #2 which has great detail of the eye.

aside from perhaps a slightly different crop they are great but to pick 1 I pick 2. the eyes are superb

The first are too wide' and the second #1 is 'too close' and to overcome the OOF foreground of #1 you could clone some soft material to create a f/g which while soft is not disturbingly so ....
http://i60.tinypic.com/t8xetz.jpg

Second #2 and #3 are excellent to me and you have left just enough room with the crop for them to feel free to move into.

I call them slaters and we have quite a few around the place :) So common I have yet to photograph them.

Edit ... now I see that there are three pages to this thread :(

Cheers for all the comments guys, much appreciated:)