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Oystercatcher in Technicolour

For Macro Mondays theme 'Less Than an Inch'.

 

The image shows a portion of a very small feather I picked up some while ago on the seashore. It was shot with my macro lens plus three extension tubes, as a ten-shot focus stack. The feather almost certainly comes from an oystercatcher, a pretty black and white species of seabird that is common around here. The feather was very unusual in that it was cleanly divided into a black side and a white side by the central rachis of the feather.

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Uploaded on February 25, 2018
Taken on February 23, 2018