CGrindahl wrote:
Boy, take a breath and the thread runs away from me... Wonderful to see photos of gear... thanks Chuong, Rafael, Samy. I even had the thought it might be good to do a new family portrait since the last one I did no longer depicts my Nikon family. I still have the problem of finding a single surface large enough to hold 47 manual focus lenses.
So with time on our hands it makes sense we'd return to this thread to renew acquaintances and share a few photos. For anyone feeling uninspired I'd suggest mounting an extension tube and taking a closer look at your world. They definitely give you a new perspective and shooting with tubes is in itself an adventure if you're adventurous enough to shoot handheld... the old rocking back and forth technique as you gaze through the viewfinder. Sometimes you get lucky... this with the 105 f/2.5 P AI with a PK-13 extension tube mounted... manual mode, f/8, 1/250th of a second.
We have another gorgeous day and I definitely need a walk. I think I'll mount the 135 f/3.5 Q AI with the PK-13 to see what I can find on another street not too far from where I live. Hope to see all of you later today. Stay safe everyone!
Beautiful macro Curtis! What is it the bee is holding?
/Kristian
This is an uncropped image so what I was able to enlarge the image and look more closely. I did a quick search and it may be what you see are "pollen sacs" like this...
Learn something new every day...
In my walk today I encountered bees that completely submerged themselves in the center of a flower to the point I could see them any longer. Yes, we need healthy bees.
Very interesting Curtis, thanks for that shot and the explanation. Just outside our little grow house, the pepper plantation a friend got some bee hives for honey produktion. We attract them to fly into the grow house by planting tagete flowers inside,that way some of the bees might pollinate our pepper plants too. We most definetely need heathly bees
