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Samsung NX300 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8 Lens | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2016.
You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus - Mark Twain.
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Happy September dear friends♥
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
Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2
f/2.8 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2017.
Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro
Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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Samsung NX1 & Steinheil Munchen 'Cassar S' - 50mm f/2.8
10mm Macro Tube | 12 Aperture Blades | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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Samsung NX300 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro Lens | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2016.
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I love everything about nature and to be able to walk under this huge and very old Beech Tree at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum, is so awe inspiring.... this lens and image does not do this tree justice.... she totally surrounds you with her limbs....
you come out feeling warm and fuzzy....
...we all need to hug a tree whenever we can!!!
Sunrise lights up the Urner Alps, as seen across the Ägerisee one fine morning. Ägerital, Kanton Zug, Switzerland
Hasselblad 503cx
Zeiss Sonnar T* 250mm f/5.6
Fujifilm Pro400H
Manual focus macro shot of this small blue and white flower - - Baby Blue Eyes.
ID from 'nowhereonearth' - Thank you, my friend!!
Helios-44M-4 2,0/58mm
Früchte der weißen Hainsimse.
Luzula luzuloides, weiße Hainsimse
ist die Charakterart des "Hainsimsen Buchenwaldes"
Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2
Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2018.
{35 mm: ƒ/14 | 1/500 s | ISO 250 | manual White Balance | manual exposure | manual focus | slightly cropped}
{35 mm: ƒ/13 | 1/40 s | ISO 800 | manual White Balance | manual exposure | manual focus | Composite Raw Noise Reduction shooting of 8 images}
- 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.
Crane Fly | Tipula sp. | Tipulidae
Samsung NX300 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2 Lens | 10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2016.
Azalea | Rhododendron sp. | Ericaceae
Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8
Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2019.
Bolete | Boletus sp. | Boletaceae
Explored on 2nd December 2022 #421
Samsung NX1 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2
Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2022.
Manual focus for this one, my AF wasnt able to catch it because it was to tiny. Happy with the IQ overall because it was manual focus and the ISO (20k) due to the dim light under trees in forest. Yes I had nothing else to do (with the 150-600) as there was no bird ...
You can click on the photo to watch it at full resolution for a better image quality.
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Helios 2,0/58mm, macro ring
Small perfume flacon that I bought for my girlfriend in Singapore in 1977! We are married by then and the flacon still exists...
A duet of native sneezweed wildflowers (Helenium amarum), blooming on the...
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
26 August 2025.
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▶ Lexicographical note:
Contrary to its name, sneezeweed is not a pernicious allergen; rather, the name is "based on historic use of the crushed dried leaves and heads to make a form of snuff that caused sneezing."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
— Lens: Meike MK 25mm f/1.8
— Focal length: 25.0 mm
— Aperture: ƒ/5.6
— Shutter speed: 1/320
— ISO: 400
— Manual focus
— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection (2016).
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Beautifully patterned green olives - seen in the Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle, Merano (South Tyrol), on a warm and bright autumn day (2018)
When you ever happen to be near Merano you should visit this lovely place and the museum. You won't regret it !!
[taken with the vintage manual focus lens SMC Pentax-M 50mm 1:1.7 - aperture: 1.7]
for the Group Looking close... on Friday! - theme of February 22nd, 2019: Green / Verdes
Happy Friday :)
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Grüne Oliven
gesehen in den Gärten des Schlosses Trauttmansdorff, Meran (Südtirol), im wundervoll warmen Herbst 2018
Die Gärten und das Schloss samt angeschlossenem Museum sind absolut einen oder mehrere Besuch wert!!
manuelles 50mm-Objektiv (smc PENTAX-M 1:1,7 50mm) bei Blende 1,7
But we have a temporary reprieve, I hope, from triple-digit heat with today’s wind. Brought this daisy plant indoors to capture and to experiment with focal point. Perhaps f/4. Manual focus and manual exposure with my close-sighted eye.
No comments necessary, but thank you for looking!
Slope of the Hufeisenberg hill near Jena-Kunitz, Thuringia, Germany
{50 mm: ƒ/3.2 | 6 s | ISO 3200 | Auto White Balance | manual exposure | manual focus}