Missed this when first posted. But worth the wait. Lovely colour and texture. Makes me want to touch those seed heads - pity we don't have touchy-feely screens (yet....).

A good advert for the capabilities of the Q-S1 + 06, too.

Steve

Brilliant combination of impressively creative technical achievement and the laws of physics.

Same as the old Spirograph (anyone remember them?). Dragging some distantly remembered murk from deeply buried brain cells, I think the technical reason might be that the swinging light is mathematically equivalent to a point moving on a surface in a multidimensional space and the images are 2-dimensional projections of (or is it slices through?) the multidimensional landscape. But, of course, you already knew that!

Have you invented the Optical Harmonograph ???

Steve

Surely not a selfie?

Steve

+1 for the 16-85 and its wide end.

And the 06 for the Q.

Steve

Just a thought - perhaps it's not a bit of camera. Might it have been somewhere else when you put the camera down, somehow got attached to it, then came off when the camera was put on the bed?

Steve

Just keep buying their alcoholic beverages and you'll be welcome...

Steve

Thanks. I'd love to know why that one drop was black!

Steve

Rain drops on a thistle. One of them - and only one - was almost black, goodness knows why. It couldn't be ignored. So here it is, after one of its white (normal) cousins. B&W seems to work best, rather than the original green/grey of the thistle.

Thoughts, comments welcome as always.

1. White drop



2. Black drop



Steve

The eyelashes look sharp enough to me - and I wouldn't be surprised if the subject wasn't sitting perfectly still, either! Personally, I don't mind a bit of softness in a portrait of a young child, as long as my eye is drawn to the point that the photographer intended. And I think you've done that.

Nice picture, I like it.

Steve

You're right there! More character than a K3 + real macro lens, too . I've thought for a while that a Q ought to be useful for macro - lots of pixels in a small space. Just needed to work out how to do it with a small lens that wouldn't dwarf the Q. Eventually the penny dropped. And it's always satisfying to find a new use for something that's been gathering dust for a while.

Steve