Thanks folks. Been using the FA77 + tube with other flowers while the sun has been out today. Might post some when time permits.

Steve

All the others in the garden are over, but this has just started flowering half hidden in an awkward corner. The last of 2019 or the first of 2020 (and blame it on climate change)?

K3 + FA77 + tube and my flexible friend, a Benbo Trekker tripod. Then had to change to Irix 150mm macro when light drizzle turned to heavy rain - pity the FA77 and tubes aren't WR.

1. FA77 + tube



2. Crop of 1.



3. Irix 150mm macro



4. Irix 150mm macro



Steve

I third that.

Steve

Lovely light, lovely pictures. Particularly like the light coming through the caps in the last one. And the highlights in the dew drops (from the flash or sun?) finish them off nicely.

Steve

No. 4 (the single spiral) exudes elegant simplicity. For me, though, the others with their tangles win prizes for messy excitement, with best in show going to No. 1 for sheer exuberance and a feeling of bursting the shackles of convention.

But then I enjoy unravelling bindweed and recalcitrant knots...

Steve

Thanks folks.

The close encounter with a steam train has definitely given me tremendous respect for those forum members who produce superb shots of trains and the people who work with them.

Steve

Oh yes, that's good.

Not sure that a clearly recognisable leaf qualifies as 'abstract', though.

Steve

Recognisably in the Lennybloke style. Nos. 1 (backlit leaves), 4 (peacock) and 9 (deer) for me, please.

No. 8 is near but not quite there for me. It seems to lack focus (in the compositional, not optical, sense). I wonder whether the network of backlit leaves and seed pods in the bottom right would make a good semi-abstract on its own?

The peacock seems to have only one leg - a bit distracting for me. Would it happen to be a Norwegian One-legged Blue, a deceased pheasant, nailed to the branch so it doesn't fall off??

Much like me - 20 miles away, seen it many times from a distance, set foot on it just once and didn't even see a red squirrel...

Steve

Impressive face, impressive picture.

Sometimes it seems that the smaller the subject, the greater the effort needed for getting a top rank image. And presumably you were up to your eyeballs in a hawthorn bush when taking this?

Steve

Trains are outside my photographic comfort zone, but being in Llangollen with a ticket in one hand and camera in the other ... it would have been rude not to have pressed the shutter button a few times. 6430 is hardly one of the big, fast, belching, romantic locos that people drool over. However, it (she? he?) was doing tourist duty that day so here are some pictures for lovers of coal, steam, evocative smells and train doors that you have to open and slam shut yourself. All with K3 + 16-85mm.

Comments welcome as usual.

1. Switching tracks



2. Reversing to the coaches



3. Coupled up



4. Shifting coal



5. Carrog station - lunchtime for the crew



6. Coupling up for the return journey



7. Be careful where you put your bag



Steve