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Early Bumblebee | Bombus pratorum | Apidae

 

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

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

 

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Cherry Plum | Prunus cerasifera | Rosaceae

 

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

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

 

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Forget-Me-Not | Myosotis sp. | Boraginaceae

 

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

f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

 

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Garlic Chives | Allium tuberosum | Amaryllidaceae

 

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

f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

 

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I have a few shots of Jane I am always wanting to get and this is nearly one of them. I'd like to get her more in mid-air. She has her hind feet still on the love seat in this frame, but it's the best I've done so far. Kinda hard to do with a manual focus lens.

 

Voigtlander APO Lanthar 90mm f/3.5 @ f/3.5

Yorkshire Fog | Holcus lanatus | Poaceae

 

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

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

 

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Common Toad | Bufo bufo | Bufonidae tucked away in a log, safely returned to hide and wait.

 

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

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

 

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Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

 

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Grooved Bonnet | Mycena polygramma | Mycenaceae

 

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

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

 

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Butter Cap | Rhodocollybia butyracea | Marasmiaceae

 

Samsung NX1 & Super-Takumar - 50mm f/1.4

8 Elements | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

 

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Large Skipper | Ochlodes sylvanus | Hesperiidae

 

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

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

 

All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2021.

 

he stands guard in the garden and 'hopefully' scares away hawks!!

 

Tamron SP 500mm f/8 mirror.

Oxeye Daisy | Leucanthemum vulgare | Asteraceae

 

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

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

 

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A wheel lying on the minute hand, lying on the glass clock face.

 

I dismantled the old clock to get inside :)

HMM!

 

Canon 70D

Tamron AF70-300mm f/4-5.6 | Wide Open

1/125s | f/5,6 | ISO 640 | 300mm

Handheld | Manual Focus

Glistening Inkcap | Coprinellus micaceus | Psathyrellaceae

 

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

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

 

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

16mm Macro Tube | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

 

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

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

Kunming | Yunnan Province | China

 

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Dusky Crane's-bill | Geranium phaeum | Geraniaceae

 

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

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

 

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Manual focussing with a Pentax mount sigma 300mm 2.8 - was trying to test if I could get this to work as a silent shooting extreme telephoto (600mm equivalent). Yes it is tricky but I was really surprised by the results - key was being able to keep the iso manageable on a micro 4/3 sensor

- manual focus

 

The little bittern or common little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) is a wading bird in the heron family, Ardeidae. Ixobrychus is from Ancient Greek ixias, a reed-like plant and brukhomai, to bellow, and minutus is Latin for "small".

This bittern is native to the Old World, breeding in Africa, central and southern Europe, western and southern Asia, and Madagascar. Birds from temperate regions in Europe and western Asia are migratory, wintering in Africa and further south in Asia, while those nesting in the tropics are sedentary. It is rare north of its breeding range.

It is a very small bittern; measuring 25–36 cm (9.8–14.2 in) in length, 40–58 cm (16–23 in) across the wings and weighing 59–150 g (2.1–5.3 oz). It is among the smallest heron species. It has a short neck, longish bill and buff underparts. The male's back and crown are black, and the wings are black with a large white patch on each wing. The female has a browner back and a buff-brown wing patch.

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

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Kunming | Yunnan Province | China

 

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Baarn

The Netherlands

 

Manual focus

Canon FD 50 f1,4

The last couple years the neighborhood fireworks have been pretty spectacular for an amateur backyard show. I decided to capture them this year and was very pleased with my camera. I used the bulb setting and manual focusing. I hope you enjoy some of the show!

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

 

All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2016.

A Lensbaby photo taken in the summer of 2024 at the Enabling Garden in Altoona, Iowa. I had a slight bend ‘up’ on the lens that focused on the red flowers in the back. I did color-pop that high center area and also increased the contrast equalization a bit using a mask in Darktable. I think this was my very first attempt at bending or tilting the lens with the Composer Pro II.

 

Lensbaby Sweet 50 optic, set at F4.0

Composer Pro II with a Canon EF mount

No additional macro lens or extension tube used

 

Developed with Darktable 4.8.0

 

Too many swear words

When autofocus freezes

And I miss the shot

Manual focus lens

Dwarf Bell | Galerina pumila | Hymenogastraceae

 

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

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

 

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White Coral Fungus | Clavulina cristata | Clavulinaceae

 

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

10mm Macro Tube | f/3.2 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

 

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Old camera and theater binoculars

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

f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Kunming | Yunnan Province | China

 

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Kaleinar MC 100mm f2.8

You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus - Mark Twain.

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Happy September dear friends♥

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

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Kunming | Yunnan Province | China

 

All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2017.

Manual Focus - Minolta 50mm f/1.7 prime

I took this one from my mum's collection for a MM photoshoot. It was found near Baikal lake many years ago.

 

Macro Mondays: "Rock".

HMM!

 

Canon 70D

Tamron AF70-300mm f/4-5.6 | Wide Open

1/60s | f/5,6 | ISO 1000 | 300mm

Handheld | Manual Focus | Natural Light

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a venus optics laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x macro lens

Sleepy yes but so very very still - Perfect

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