....of a Geranium.




K5, 100mm. D FA Macro.
30mm. of extension on Auto Bellows M.
Stack of 18 images in Combine ZP, all @ f8.
Manual focus & exposure.
Natural light.

Thanks for having a look.
Any & all thoughts / comments welcome.

Roger.

Cheers Steve!

Roger.

Thanks all, for looking & for your kind comments, they are much appreciated.

Roger.

Thanks again, chaps.

Roger.

Both K5, 100mm. D FA Macro.











Thanks for having a look!
Leave a comment if you'd like to.....

Roger.

All K5, with Pentax SMC-M 50mm f1.7 reversed onto SMC-M 200mm f4.
Mounted on Auto Bellows M, closed down to the minimum extension, about 30mm.
Pentax AF280T Hotshoe mounted flash, home-made white paper diffuser,
Stopped down, manually for each shot, to f16 on the 50mm, for the majority of the shots but to f5.6 for the Picture-Winged Fly portrait.
Focussed via a 1 millimetre printed graduated strip, wrapped round the focus "barrel" of the 200.
Used in conjunction with a pointer-pin, mounted with blue-tack on the non-rotating mount of the lens.
Thus the stacks are focussed moving the 200 "forward" by increments of 1 mm on the barrel.
All about 10-15 shots, stacked in Combine ZP.

I had all the above kit already, apart from the Reverse Adaptor, which was about a tenner, inc postage!
Love in a mist flower stamen.




Biro Ball.




The wingspots on a Wall Brown butterfly.









Picture-Winged Fly Portrait.




Picture-Winged Fly Head & Shoulders.



Pretty fiddly, but good fun fiddling around on a wet, cold, early summer Sunday!

Thanks for looking, hope you like them & any thoughts more than welcome!

Roger.

Thanks, Andy.

Of course, it doesn't work for any/every site, as I've just found.

Roger.

Thank you all very much for your kind remarks.

Spent some time today out of the rain snapping some more, in a similar vein.

















I'd been thinking where the inspiration for these could have come from...

And like some of you, I remember seeing illustrations, perhaps Victorian, of this sort of thing...

Got.it!
Arthur Rackham's illustrations for A midsummer Night's Dream!
They really are wonderful.

Thanks, again, for all your encouraging thoughts & comments. They really do help!

Roger.

No, not a golfing issue.....!

Could someone please tell me how to put a "link" to another website onto a post / comment here?

Eternal gratitude awaits!!

Roger,

K5, 100mm. D FA Macro.
Stack of three, Combine ZP.
Elements 11.








Thanks for looking, any thoughts more than welcome.

Roger.