Smooth Hawksbeard (and greenfly...)

Smooth Hawksbeard is the closest I can find in Mrs. L's wildflower book, so that must be what it is. The book says it grows in "rough and waste ground", which is a pretty good description of where it is growing in the garden. The picture was taken in the kitchen, having found that the breakfast bar gives a solid base for macro photography. It's a focus stack of many (possibly too many...) images taken with K3 + Irix 150mm. I didn't notice the greenflies until doing the stacking. Had to do some careful cloning because one of the wretched things moved during the image sequence . And every greenfly found anywhere in the house over the summer is now doubtless due to me taking this photo...

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as usual.




Steve

Nicely shot Steve

I can really appreciate this having just started with focus stacking. It’s not as easy as you make it look.

Thanks folks.
I apply the Fundamental Rule of Photography, which is --- never show your failures .

You're right about it not being easy. I'm not far up the learning curve myself. That shot actually took hours to produce, including a couple of attempts that didn't quite work out. But once you've started, you've got to keep going, admitting defeat is not an option!!

Steve

Nicely done

Really nicely done Steve

Thanks folks. Appreciated.

Steve

Very much to my taste, sir, with wonderful detail and vivid colour. The use of the black background really nails it

Lovely indeed, Steve, and your perseverence is highly commendable.