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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

Purply Poaceae by Nick Cowling

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Yorkshire Fog | Holcus lanatus | Poaceae

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

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

White Columbine by angela kanner

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in my garden...

Hidernation by Nick Cowling

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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

Snow Stripes by Nick Cowling

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Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Pale Polygramma by Nick Cowling

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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

Beech Butter by Nick Cowling

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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

At Large At Last . . . by Nick Cowling

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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

9:40:11 AM by Kenneth Tucker

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kennethtucker.com

I Don't Give A Hoot... by angela kanner

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

golden leaf by Dhina A

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Tamron SP 500mm f/8 mirror.

by Jonathan

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Eye In The Sky by Nick Cowling

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Oxeye Daisy | Leucanthemum vulgare | Asteraceae

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

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

Parts of the clock by Alexandra

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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

Bountiful by Nick Cowling

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Glistening Inkcap | Coprinellus micaceus | Psathyrellaceae

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

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

Wide Awake by Nick Cowling

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

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

Large White | Pieris brassicae | Pieridae by Nick Cowling

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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

Mourning Widow by Nick Cowling

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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

Manual focus training by Lilywhites2009

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G80 Jay by **Rich**

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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

Little bittern - Čapljica 3 by Bojan Žavcer

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- 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.

Remembrance by Nick Cowling

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

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

Kunming | Yunnan Province | China

Autumn by Wouter van Wijngaarden

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Baarn

The Netherlands

Manual focus

Canon FD 50 f1,4

Bursting in Air by 11Jewels

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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!

Candle Snuff Fungus | Xylaria hypoxylon | Xylariaceae 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

The More The Merrier by Pete Vielhaber

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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

Today I switched to manual focus by Carol Berney

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Too many swear words

When autofocus freezes

And I miss the shot

Oldtimer by Sergei Ivanov

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Manual focus lens