It took a long time for me to work out what this had to do with an ox skull... Then came the 'Aha!' moment and the whole picture changed!

Well composed, nice light, not too many bluebells. It lifts the 'bluebell wood' genre to a new level.

Steve

Nope. It's "This is my tummy, you may tickle it now".

Nice picture, by the way.

Steve

Spammer or not, if you go to the Lensbaby online shop and filter for Pentax K mount, it displays 8 lenses. Looks good so far. But click on any of them and go to 'Choose a mount' and none of them has K mount as an option. Not that I care personally, Lensbaby lenses don't interest me at all. But if I were interested, the lack of K mount would be rather annoying. Of course, it might just be a glitch on their website.

Mind your, they don't appear to make lenses for Leica mounts. I wonder if Leica owners are getting upset?

Steve

Excellent!

There's something about it that makes me think of a Hubble telescope image of an intergalactic feather floating among the distant galaxies....

Steve

Ah, of course. The first rule of wildlife photography: Never show you failures

I'm going to a garden centre this morning for a few plants. Your daffodil background is making me wonder whether to choose them for the background they will give for bug macros. Never thought of that before!

Steve

That yellow background - stunning! The rest of them are good, too.

Steve

An imaginative concept, imaginatively and skillfully executed.

For hanging on the wall, nos. 2 and 13. But my favourite is no. 8, the insects going about their business show nature as a work-in-progress rather than just a thing of beauty.

Steve

There are a lot of that sort on my hard drive, too!

I've found a few trees with interesting shapes and good backgrounds. It's then just a matter of being there when the light is right, the sun is setting in the right place, the weather is good, there are no leaves on the tree etc. etc. Of course, I haven't the faintest idea what type of tree most of them are.

Do we need a 'Bare tree pictures' thread??

Steve

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss

You know you want to - it's the ultimate focus challenge !!!!

Steve

Might having the point of focus at the tip change the whole feel of it? The loss of focus towards the tip suggests (to me) a path disappearing into the far distance (infinity?). With the tip in focus, that might be lost. There's only one way to find out...

Steve