Interesting! When I look at the colour image, I first see the main tulip then the picture as a whole. When I look at the mono image, I first see the picture as a whole then the man tulip. Strange, very strange... . But both are fine photos.

Steve

LennyBloke takes the wide-open beauty of flowers, all I can manage is weeds and wet...

Two photos of a wet dandelion seedhead that came very close to being squashed beneath a wellington boot this afternoon while hunting the dreaded bindweed . But I spotted it in time and, as I wasn't yet covered in mud, a quick trip indoors to grab the camera was in order. Both taken with the K3iii + Irix 150mm f2.8 macro at f3.5. The shots differed only in the point of focus.

So which do you prefer - focus on the highest tips of the feathery bits or on the 'pin cushion'?

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A big like from me!!

Interesting seeing angles in an ICM image rather than just the usual swirls and blurry blobs.

Steve

That last post should be the first post in a new thread headed 'Old Glass', rather than hidden at the end of a classified ad thread. It might start an interesting discussion/debate.

Steve

Strange. To my eyes, the Audi symbol (linked rings) on the car behind the central arrow look distinctly blurred while the arrow looks sharper.

Steve

I'm up for it . Not sure that Mrs L will be, though...

Steve

Correct! Hairy bittercress in my book. How on earth did you get it????

For those who don't know, it's a small plant consisting of a rosette of leaves near the ground and bare, vertical stalks with tiny (few mm) white flowers at the top. After a flower has been fertilised, it grows a long, thin seed pod. When ripe, the seed pod bursts open, scattering miniscule seeds all over the place. The photo shows a seed pod growing from a fertilised flower. It's been growing steadily since the photo was taken.

Steve

Whatever you used for your search is also wrong.

Google is wrong - who'd have believed it possible??

Steve

Life has got in the way of photography for quite a while. However, today the withdrawal symptoms from macro photography finally overcame the pressure to do what needs doing and this evening I found a little weed in a flower pot and took its picture. Well, took a lot of pictures actually because the only way to treat the withdrawal symptoms was to create a focus stack. After a couple of hours of fiddling with the macro rig, taking 122 photos with the K3 + Laowa 25mm @ x2.5 and crunching them through Affinity Photo 2 on a hard working computer, the result emerged. And here it is. Not the best stack I've ever done, but more than adequate as treatment for the withdrawal symptoms .

So... can you guess what the weed is?




Steve