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Lovely to see this. Used to sing the song about this to my kids when they were little. Many thanks for sharing!

Rachel, thank you.

PS lovely to see a shot of the Kettle Valley Line on your portfolio. Used to sing the song to my kids at bedtime when they were little.

Doug, intriguing photo. I like it, but I can't figure it out. Are you able to reveal what it is?

Mike - like the idea and technique, love the result. Original and humorous. Bravo!

PN has cut off my description above so I'll do a recap here.

I was supposed to be cleaning up the garden after winter when I discovered these two dried out flowers from a Japanese Climbing Hydrangea. They had flowered in August, had been buried in winter snow, and I was discovering their skeletons in the following May. The flowers are about 2cm across (less than one inch). The seed pods are at most 2mm (less than a tenth of an inch). The veins in the flower are of coarse miniscule. I have a new and very basic macro lens. I tethered the camera with Digicamcontrol, shot off about 30 photos at varying focal lengths, and then focus stacked in Helicon to get a reasonable depth of field. Happy to get suggestions on how to improve, since I'm a beginner with this ...

Jack many thanks. Much appreciate your comments!

Jack, I'm impressed by this for many reasons: the surface texture of the sculpture is almost tangible in this shot - great detail, also the different shades of white and near white are awesome. Did you have to play with lighting to get all this right, or did you post process a lot or ….?

Mark - a funny, funny moment - which you caught at exactly the right time. Well done.

My comment in the subtitle runs off the screen so I'll repeat here. The technical challenge was that one cat is almost black, the other is bright white. For that reason I thought of HDR. I took three photos at different exposures and let PS combine them. Of course the cats had to be so fast asleep that they wouldn't move. This meant several tries until they ignored me. I'm quite pleased with the result. Does anyone else use HDR for animal shots? Thoughts?

Lovely capture. Congrats.

I'm three years late, but still want to say it: gorgeous.

My comments to the photo seem to run off the screen (at least mine) so I'll repeat. This was half photo, half illustrator tools to create the basis for a book cover. For the full story behind the creation of the cover, please see https://blog.staadecker.com/2018/03/07/how-to-build-a-fictional-bridge/

Vittoria,

 

Great composition, lighting, depth of field and mood. All round a great capture.

 

Congratulations.

 

Peter.

Good capture … and ironic title :)

Love the lighting, the mood of foreboding and evil, the use of the swirling clouds and birds. Congratulations.

Cheers,

Peter.

David,

I had a screen of random photos pop up and this was the only one I wanted to look at more closely. I should have known it would be one of yours. Inventive as always. I particularly like the doves in the background.

Cheers, Peter.

Great detail, Gene. How did you get the butterfly to sit still for you?

Love the lighting and the sharp focus. Congratulations.

Peter.

Hi Mark, thank you. That was a Sony G Master 70-200 f2.8

Lovely work, Stephen. Absolutely lovely.

Regards,

Peter.

Giangiorgio, this is super. Not only the flamingoes, but the bands of light and shadow from the hills, and the lines of rolling hills. This is somehow reminiscent of an Japanese ink sketch - by a master, of course. Lovely work.

Regards,

Peter.

Hi Gail, I'm impressed that you were able to do this hand-held. That's amazing. You must have a rock-steady grip and/or a good flash. I notice in the comments you mention wanting to figure out focus-stacking. It's not hard. If you have Photoshop and want details, give me a shout.

Regards,

Peter.

Amazing. I have no idea how you did it, but it's fabulous. Congratulations.

Very strong image. Love it. Kudos.

Nikolai, very interesting, very inventive. Kudos.

Best wishes.

Peter.