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Wicked_Dark

For a while now I've been working on getting a decent shot of these moss spores. Yesterday I spotted this little group in a tiny shaft of sunlight and so plunked the camera down to get it while it lasted. It wasn't long, let me tell you, but I think this exercise will help me get an even better shot in future. I do like this one though. I think that's a stone fly on the stalk there, just a few mm across. To get this perspective the camera sat directly on a flattish rock and I used a twig to shim the lens up just a fraction. Funny what you have to do in the field.



Olympus E-30 | OM 90mm f2 macro | f11 | 1/25 | editing in Lightroom

Sam

I like this, very nice. The only nit I have is I think you could alter the crop a little bit and move the subject off center some.

Sam

Wicked_Dark

yeah, that was one of my niggling dislikes as well. I must have moved the crop a dozen times. I might again.

willard3

Nice shroon.fungus.

Wicked_Dark

thanks. it's moss actually. many moss species propagate via spores much the same way fungus does.