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South American leafcutter ants (Acromyrmex octospinosus), at Stratford Butterfly Farm, Warwickshire.
A. octospinosus ranges from Mexico to Panama and Venezuela, and unlike most species it forms multi-queen colonies. The leaves the worker ants collect are taken back to the nest, where they are chewed up, and defecated on, to cultivate the fungus the ants feed upon.
Shot with a Nikon D7000 and a Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8 AIS manual focus lens (from around 1980) and processed in GIMP and Photoscape. Unfortunately they're quick little buggers and difficult to keep sharp. Wish I'd taken the ISO up to 400ish and shot at a slightly wider DOF.
Common Spotted Orchid | Dactylorhiza fuchsii | Orchidaceae
Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8
Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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. . . With Boughs Of Holly
Samsung NX300 & Steinheil Munchen 'Cassar S' - 50mm f/2.8 Lens | 12 Aperture Blades | 10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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Samsung NX1 & Super-Takumar - 50mm f/1.4
10mm Macro Tube | 8 Elements | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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Samsung NX1 & Carl Zeiss Jena 'Pancolar' 50mm f/1.8
10mm Macro Tube | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
All Rights Reserved. © Nick Cowling 2018.
We spent a few days relaxing and hiking in the Black Forest to recharge our batteries.
I took the manual Ricoh XR Rikenon 50mm with me just in case I felt like playing around a bit .... and I actually did : ))
Happy Hump Day / have a great evening !
[ manual Ricoh XR Rikenon 50mm f1.4 on a Pentax K-70 ]
I was a bit in a hurry since the light was fading very quickly and i was quite far away from the car. Everything was already in my backpack and I promised to myself "no more photography for today".
Then i see this beautiful scene in front of me and i had to take everything out. Again.
I have no regrets 😜
Adapted Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Available light, on tripod
I occasionally trot out an old manual-focus lens for my daily walks –– probably 4-5 times a year. Yesterday, it was a Ricoh/Rikenon 50mm 1.7 lens. I got the lens at a garage sale, pre-Covid, for $25. I think it’s from the late 1970s or early 1980s. With a #Fotodiox adapter, this K-mount lens works on my Fuji cameras.
Walking through the Gamble Garden in downtown Palo Alto, Calif., I snapped this pic. I think the lens resolves pretty well for $25, though my eyes have a tough time doing the manual focus thing. Regardless, it’s nice to see that spring has sprung.
Samsung NX1 & LZOS Jupiter 9 - 85mm f/2
26mm Macro Tube | 15 Aperture Blades | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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manual focus ...I love how clear this turned out...it is a crop and I rotated it cause I though it looked like a bird... Large: View On Black
Samsung NX1 & Helios 44-2 - 58mm f/2
Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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Persicaria affinis 'Darjeeling Red' | Polygonaceae
Samsung NX300 & Helios 44M - 58mm f/2 Lens | Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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Samsung NX1 & Steinheil Munchen 'Cassar S' - 50mm f/2.8
20mm Macro Tube | 12 Aperture Blades | f/4 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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It takes a lot of work to "manetain" that lion's mane that Big Red is famous for.
Digiscoped using manual focus and my little 16MP camera.
I’d love to write something beautiful and meaningful to complement this image and though this photo speaks volumes and shares an encouraging story with me, I’m not really able to write any words to do it justice. So I will try to let this image speak for itself.
I had been struggling a lot with a physical health condition which I had a procedure for and ended up having some unexpected health problems after the procedure. All of this was interrelated with the effects of trauma I’ve experienced and activated and intensified the overwhelming, disturbing, deeply troubling effects of trauma. It was incredibly challenging due to the physical and emotional symptoms and I managed to spend a few minutes outside just under 2 weeks after the procedure. I was so surprised and encouraged to see this refreshing sight on the porch steps. I could relate to the darkness hanging so strongly overhead and within—I’d been experiencing a lot of this. And the heart I saw in the light was a beautiful reminder of God’s love for me, that He sees me, and is with me in these incredibly intense and difficult moments that feel like too much for me to survive.
[image created on 4-1-2023]
Samsung NX1 & LZOS Jupiter 9 - 85mm f/2
15 Aperture Blades | f/2.8 | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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I've been posting some updated edits of a Reddish Egret named "Big Red," and friend asked if I'd ever photographed the white morph at Fort DeSoto. I found this in the archives and gave it an update with modern software. It will soon be on my wall as a 24" x 30" print on metal. Thank you Christine for getting me to go back and find it!
Digiscoped using manual focus and my little 16MP camera.
Municipal sewage pumping station
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Nikon D300 + Nikon Nikkor 85mm 1:2 AIS manual-focus lens sn306492
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