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Rain Drenched Dahlia... by angela kanner

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from Bayard Cutting Arboretum...

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As well as the excursion, this day was a testing day of sorts.

Got a new backpack a few weeks ago to carry gear (Mindshift BackLight). Check! Carried some extra gear just to add some weight and it felt great.

Got some new boots this past week that are water proof. Double check!! Feet kept dry.

And wanted to test using my Canon wide angle on the Sony camera. Autofocus speed is not great, so switch to manual focusing which isn't a big deal for landscapes. Focus peaking makes it easy. Check!

A good day :))

My website: In the Moment Creations

Parasol Perch by Nick Cowling

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Parasola conopilus | Psathyrellaceae

Samsung NX1 & Steinheil Munchen 'Cassar S' - 50mm f/2.8

Crocus Carnival | White | Solo Artiste by Nick Cowling

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Samsung NX300 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro Lens | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

36 by Miguel

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Convict Lake 2 by Moshe Ovadya

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11 exposures stacked median in Photoshop, each between 5-20 seconds, totaling about 2 minutes, then blended with a darker exposure sky.

This was blue hour just before it became pitch dark with freezing temperatures around 28F (-2C).

Samyang 12mm manual focus lens.

Thank you very much for your kind comments and faves.

Snapping At The Sun by Nick Cowling

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Snapdragon | Antirrhinum sp. | Plantaginaceae

Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Pie Crust by Nick Cowling

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Samsung NX1 & Steinheil Munchen 'Cassar S' - 50mm f/2.8

Spring Aspirant by Nick Cowling

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Wood Anemone | Anemone nemorosa | Ranunculaceae

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Flower Fairies by Nick Cowling

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Toadflax | Linaria sp. | Plantaginaceae

Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Rosea Rising by Nick Cowling

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Rosy Bonnet | Mycena rosea | Mycenaceae

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Emerging From The Shadows by Nick Cowling

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Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Aldeburgh Beach - Super-Takumar 55mm f1.8 by mark.farrand4

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Foresters by Nick Cowling

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Explored on 21st September 2020 #489

Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

March Micaceus by Nick Cowling

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Glistening Inkcap | Coprinellus micaceus | Psathyrellaceae

Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

United by Nick Cowling

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Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

L'amore è nell'aria by Nick Cowling

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Snowdrop | Galanthus nivalis | Amaryllidaceae

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2

10mm Macro Tube | f/2.8 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

osteospermum eklonis by michel hourticq

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marguerite du Cap

Pentax Takumar 50mm f1.8

Beautiful color, sharpness and rendering from a 50 years old lens

Astrantia by Nick Cowling

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Great Black Masterwort | Astrantia major 'Rubra' | Apiaceae

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Lucorum Lad by Nick Cowling

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White-Tailed Bumblebee (m) | Bombus lucorum | Apidae on Creeping Thistle | Cirsium arvense | Asteraceae

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2

10mm Macro Tube | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Pureen . . . by Nick Cowling

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. . . Purple and Green

Explored on 4th March 2020 #64

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44-2 - 58mm f/2

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Waking The Fairy Folk by Nick Cowling

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Brown Mottlegill | Panaeolina foenisecii | Bolbitiaceae

Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2

10mm Macro Tube | f/2.8 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Golden In The Garden... by angela kanner

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I had to look hard to find color this time of year in the garden... but it's out there!!

Sunny day in the forest by Sergei Ivanov

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Manual focus lens

Glowing red leaves by Sergei Ivanov

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manual focus lens

Myosotis by Nick Cowling

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Forget-Me-Not | Myosotis sp. | Boraginaceae

Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Time To Mend Fences... by angela kanner

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Out of the Dark by VintageLensLover

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Macro Mondays - Oil Can Texture by Leon Van Kemenade

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I spent an hour on Sunday looking for things that might make an interesting texture shot for this week's Macro Mondays theme. Dead flower heads, a snail shell, a leaf... nothing really worked. I then had a look in my garage which is stacked full of stuff and came up with this filthy old oil can and I thought - why not? It's certainly got some texture to it.

An interesting story regarding the lens I used here - a manual focus 90mm f2.8 Sigma Macro - which I got as part of a job lot of old camera gear which I purchased because I saw two other old lenses in the lot that I thought might be interesting. This is actually the first time I've actually used this Sigma and I was more than pleasantly surprised by the results. I put a short extension tube on it in order to get in closer than the 1:2 capability of the lens. I stopped down to something like f5.6 so I would expect reasonable depth of field, which it produced, but I wasn't expecting how fantastically sharp it is.

This was shot hand held on my Sony A7ii at 1/60th of a second and ISO 500.

Aix galericulata - Canon nFD 135mm f3.5 by Claudio Arriens

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Pato Mandarim (Aix galericulata)

Sony A6000 with Canon nFD 135mm f3.5 and FOTGA Adapter

Woodland Nymph by Nick Cowling

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Wood Anemone | Anemone nemorosa | Ranunculaceae

Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8

10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Heather, stock lens, manual focus. by Александр Б.

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Giant Funnel by Nick Cowling

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Giant Funnel | Leucopaxillus giganteus | Tricholomataceae

Samsung NX1 & Steinheil Munchen 'Cassar S' - 50mm f/2.8

Even Snails Enjoy The Beach!? by Nick Cowling

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Samsung NX300 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8 Lens | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Fuchsia by VintageLensLover

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Bombylius Bomber . . . by Nick Cowling

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Dark-Edged Bee-Fly | Bombylius major | Bombyliidae

This female is hovering above the entrance of a solitary bee nest prior to darting down and throwing her eggs using a flicking movement. Her larvae find their way into the nests to feed on the grubs.

Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Bokeh Brassicae by Nick Cowling

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Large White | Pieris brassicae | Pieridae

Samsung NX1 & Steinheil Munchen 'Cassar S' - 50mm f/2.8