Bet you can't guess!

Can you guess what this is? I had no idea it would be so beautiful close up, and intriguing. The details like the curving and twisting stalks that make it appear to be swimming through moving water, and the stripes on these seed casings... Details I just didn't expect.

Actually, I didn't even take these intending to publish them. These were part of a series of test shots taken while I was fooling around with the camera and lenses. It was later that I realized I had something here.

You can see this item at the bottom of this post, with a penny. It's just a very normal stalk of grass, the kind that gets all seedy at the top when you forget to mow the lawn for a while.

I'll get back to the other assorted items--like fasteners--soon enough, but I've got a lot of nature shots to crank through from our recent lake vacation. Send me an idea for something you'd like to see big, if you care to break this cycle of nature photos!

Send me your suggestions for something tiny that you'd like to see big.

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Will I Stamen or Will I Go?

Shot these pollen pods on Violet's weird flower thing. The weird flower thing is beautiful in regular size, and just as cool in microscopic.

You can see how much is out of focus in this shot; it is frustrating shooting tiny stuff because the usable depth of field is so shallow. In this photo, I estimate it was around 2 or 3 mm. {CORRECTION: I actually believe now that my usable depth is more like half a millimeter, or in microscopic talk, 500 microns}

I've already stopped down to f32, so there's not much more I can do. While I'd like to have more elements in the photo in focus, that doesn't seem possible without digitally stacking a group of photos.

Send me your suggestions for something tiny that you'd like to see big.

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