A funny thing happened today:
I was walking by the cupboard where I keep my lenses and I heard a strange noise - sort of a muffled whimpering. I moved in closer to investigate - it seemed to be coming from the cupboard - so I opened it up and there was my 55mm f2.8 micro quietly sobbing. With all this recent talk of the 35-200 and the macro setting on that lens, the 55 didn't feel wanted or loved anymore. What was I to do?
We have had a lot of rain lately (we need it), but today we had a short spell between fronts so I thought I would go out and look for some fungi to shoot with the 55 - something different and refreshing to shoot. Well, I didn't find any. We have more rain on the way, so maybe later. There were plenty of little pink lady slipper orchids and wild clematis - both of which I shot and posted last year. However, I couldn't come back empty handed.
Here are two that show the range of this lens (not the most innovative of compositions, I know - things are tough these days).
cascade LR by Doug Stevens, on Flickr
a small cascade
Nikon Df, ISO 100; 55mm micro-NIKKOR f2.8 @ f11; 0.3 sec
Two local lichens (it was this or moss on a rock!) Lichen 1 LR by Doug Stevens, on Flickr
Nikon Df, ISO 100; 55mm micro-NIKKOR f2.8 @ f4; 1/500 sec; 7 image focus stack
There are a few minor errors with the Photoshop stacking, but not too bad for 7 images, and the bokeh not unpleasant.
If there's light at the end of the tunnel, make we can get a photo!
