... who know that at the heart of every good beer is a good hop. And these must be good ones because they are mine . The green one ('wet' in brewing terminology) is fresh from the garden. The brown one ('dry' in brewing terminology) is from last year and dried in the garden shed. Both show the little yellow blobs that make hops so interesting for beer lovers.

Both pictures are focus-stacks, processed by Affinity Photo from images taken with the K3 + Sigma 70mm macro. As you might guess, I'm experimenting with lighting at the moment .

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as usual.

Cheers!!!!

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Superb cloud, great mountain.

Incredible to think that I once staggered up that mountain, when a student very many years ago. Looking at this picture, it's depressingly clear that there is absolutely no way I could get up it now without the use of a helicopter... .

Steve

It took a few seconds to convince myself that you weren't going mad, but you're right, there is a suicidal bunny!

Steve

Perhaps 10% inflation and gas/electricity bills about to go through the roof is making people cautious about spending £££ on discretionary purchases?

Good luck!

Steve

It sounds like your Samsung Tablet needs to connect to a card reader or USB flash drive via a OTG cable (OTG = On The Go). They are readily available and cheap. It's to do with how Android handles a USB connection. As far as I understand it, when you connect a device to an Android phone or tablet, Android assumes that the device wants to access the phone/tablet's storage (e.g. connecting to a computer to upload or download files to/from the phone/tablet). With a card reader, you neeed the roles to be reversed i.e. the phone/tablet needs to access the storage in the connected device. An OTG cable enables the role reversal.

I'm no expert at these things, but have had the experience of a phone (not Samsung) in which the OTG facility had been disabled so even an OTG cable wouldn't do the trick. It looks like Samsung are more sensible and allow OTG to work - with a cable, of course.

Steve

They'll want a percentage of your observing time in exchange for funding...

Steve

The card format shouldn't be a problem. So if the card hasn't failed, the problem is either with the card reader or the tablet. If you have a USB flash drive (memory stick) that you know works, try putting that in the tablet's USB slot to check whether the tablet recognises it. If it doesn't, the problem is with the tablet. If it does, the card reader is the problem.

Just a thought - sometimes I find that I haven't fully inserted the card into one of my card readers, it needs a firm push to make good contact with the card's internals. Worth checking with yours.

Steve

But a lot cheaper than the James Webb thingy that NASA sent a squillion miles to do astrophotography. Mind you, that thing has been converted for IR...

And unlike NASA, when you've finished using it you can sell it on and get some of your money back .

Steve

A Q + 01 isn't what I'd normally use or recommend for flower photography. However, having just taken some record shots of the collection of sempervivums (houseleeks) that's what was in the hand during a wander round the front garden. So why not point it at some flowers and press the shutter button, even though it was the middle of the day which is hardly the favoured time for doing such things? Well, here are some of the results. All processed from RAW files, cropped and curves tweaked.

Thoughts, comments welcome as usual.

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Excellent use of a fisheye . And all the better for being a different take on a familiar subject.

Steve