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I definitely prefer the hyacynths when they have gone over like this one. They have a far more interesting look to them with the fading colour than they have when in full bloom. I photographed a few flowers round the garden and Jess had a good time exploring the burn
I see a small group of people (one with their head in their hands) berating a dog! What do you see? This is a new shot from the slime mold (Metatrichia floriformis) I found a couple of weeks ago. I’m quite surprised it’s still going – I had understood that
The great thing with the ultra macro is you can make abstract images very easily which is ideal when it’s chucking it down outside and the footy is on the telly ;-). So, this is the edge of a bottle top from a bottle of Evian – who knew? Taken
During our visit to the garden centre yesterday we picked up some Anemones for the garden and before Debbie planted them out this afternoon I took some photos of one of them. This is a 48 shot stack to get the majority of the flower in focus taken at 1:1 using
After taking vast numbers of images to combine to get everything in focus yesterday , for today’s photo I have gone back to basics and a very narrow depth of field, deliberately. This week’s 52frames challenge was, as you have probably gathered, shallow depth of field. There’s is a small
A few years ago I saw a talk at Bishop’s Stortford Camera Club about macro photography by Andy Sands and this included a lot of extreme macro images. I was fascinated with the types of things you could see, or should I say, couldn’t see and really fancied having a
We occasionally have sheep visit the garden. They’re not supposed to but our neighbours sheep are great escape artists and they always enjoy a good feed on our lawn before ambling off down into what can best be described as scrubland behind the house. One of our recent visitors has
Down at the Harden Burn this afternoon in the garden and I was having a look at this chain which is strung from a wire across the stream just before you reach a tunnel that goes under the road next to our house. There is a matching set up on
I’ve always enjoyed macro photography for many years, indeed, my first “proper” lens was my 105mm macro lens which I got about 15 years ago. Whilst I’ve enjoyed the lens, I’ve really only dabbled with the techniques, so, I am going to try and learn some more advanced techniques. Today
Today has been a day of rummaging through boxes to find my old camera strap. The strap continues to be missing but I have found lots of other old bits and pieces in my search for it including my old LED lights that I used in my last 365 project
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