The Unstable Image

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ― Alfred Tennyson

Exactly 12 months on, I found myself back in my parents garden on Boxing Day making the most of their wonderful selection of flowers and plants. I found some great critters, lots of beautiful flowers and made the most of the light to get up close and personal with them. I still find it amazing every time I photograph macro the immense level of detail that doesn’t lessen the closer you get. I gave the new tripod a good workout, which performed brilliantly and allowed me to shoot without a flash while using my Tamron 90mm Macro and full set of extension tubes.

The intended subject of this photo was the flying insect and it wasn’t until I showed my dad that he pointed out the Mantis hiding in the flowers!

A tone mapped HDR with my fish eye to finish off.

If you’d like to see last years post, click here. It’s interesting for me to compare the two posts since they’re similar in content and 12 months apart.

Hope you enjoyed, happy snapping.

AiM