I don't often do pure photography posts these days but tonight I tried to take a few of some maple tree seeds my daughter and I picked up during the day. These were taken with a flash (obviously) in near darkness. I would have liked to have played a little more to get the settings right but after the flash fired a few times I got told off by my wife for waking her up with the light.
I don't get out nearly as much as I should with the camera so I am going to try and see what I can do with some macro shots inside. These were all taken with a 40-150 lens on an Olympus EM-1, a mirrorless camera and are yet to be edited. The photos I post at Steemfest are going to have to go unedited too since my laptop can't handle any decent software.
I don't have a macro lens so I use some cheap extension tubes I got from eBay for about 25€ a few years ago. There are cheaper ones but these have the pins so I am still able me to auto-focus, which I prefer to use sometimes, especially when it is so dark.
Well, here are the photos I transferred over.
I like how such simple things we take for granted are actually incredibly complex structures once up close and personal. The design in nature is incredible and I love how life fractals and repeats across levels. The veins in the seeds look are a micro version of the tree it fell from and also are much like our own system. Obviously, the closer we get to something the context of it becomes lost and undefined to the point where it no longer makes sense to the understanding.
Sometimes it is good to get a little distance and maybe some greater perspective on what we are viewing to make sure we still understand what the point of it all is.
Well, that was mostly photography.
Taraz
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