Chinese chestnut

Although I was supposed to be cleaning the house, for the upcoming visit from my son and his girl, I spent a good part of the day playing with macros.

I waver between loving landscapes and macros, with lots of in-between sorts of images thrown in there.

 

I hadn't had a good macro session for a long time, and so I played today.

 

This is the outer edge of the seedpod of a Chinese Chestnut tree. These things are so sharp you cannot pick them up with your bare hands. I snagged this one with a piece of tissue, using the tissue like a bag, as the sharp points go right through a tissue.

 

This macro was interesting to me because I used reverse lens macro, to get really close up, and because I attached another lens (backwards) to the end of my regular lens, I was able to keep a really deep depth of field.

 

After I took one shot, I decided I couldn't see enough of the object, so I got weird and made a reverse-lens-macro-panorama. This is the result.

 

I was thinking of starting a group called "Macro Mysteries... what IS that thing?" where everyone would have to guess what the object was on the two photos before their entry. Just for fun. Any opinions on that?

Done