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Stacking focus on fungi

I was taking the dog for a walk … honest! Then I got slightly off track and found all these within a 5 metre area. She is old and I think just enjoys getting out of the house with me for a sniff as much as the walking/distance part. Anyway, I started sniffing about for fungi.

I was in the same area where I found the dark green velvety one’s I took a post or two earlier – but couldn’t see a…

St Columba Falls, Tasmania.

St Columba Falls, Tasmania.

Devil's Corner, Van Dieman's Land.

A series of images from our visit to Devil’s Corner Vineyard, nestled in one of the nicest little valley’s in Tasmania with an awesome view to The Hazards. The weather wasn’t kind, but it still looked fantastic.

Pretty … painful!

The Bluebottle or Pacific Man-of-War is not a single animal but a colony of four kinds of highly modified individuals (zooids). The zooids are dependent on one another for survival. It’s not a true jellyfish. Well, I never … I just read this and more interesting facts about them here!

We found this one washed up on a beach south of Scamander on Tassie’s East Coast. Image taken with Olympus…

Bright beetle on berry …

Had a little holiday up the East Coast of Tasmania, we spotted plenty of these beautiful green beetles on a walk in a limited area. Not easy to photograph with the 60mm Macro as they were moving around but got these two keepers. Click on an image to zoom in 🙂

Both of these photos are eight images “focus stacked” in Photoshop CS6, then some fine tuning to correct the bits it missed. The…

Frogs among the ferns …

Frogs are a sign of a healthy environment. I found these two by accident sitting among some ferns in the garden and was lucky that they stayed still long enough for me to grab my camera to photograph with the 60mm macro. The first shot is focus stacked in camera.

I used a monopod to try to reduce camera movement but the second image the stack did not work, luckily the first image from the 10…