Just my garden (part 2)

Sandy and Marie asked for more from my garden. I know dandelions are weeds - but I like them!

I took these using the old G series trick of seeting to manual focus and then rotating the lens barrel by hand to get extreme close-ups. I'm sure it'll wreck the camera eventually but I've been doing it for 2 years and the results are worth the risk.

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And if you wreck it you're that much closer to the 30D. Lovely macros Damian very sharp. Are they gone by dandelions by chance? I remember as a child picking them and blowing the seed pods all over much to the chargrin of my Dad, he knowing that there would be twice the crop in the lawn next year.

they are very lovely and unusual patterns Damian
the designs are wonderful

(taking aside I root them out ) .....I love the dandeloins, for their colour and beauty especially when seen in a photograph

the flowers were already wild
here you show the wildness is spreading and going to their heads
...


they are very nice close ups

(good luck with the new camera)
(Sandy's idea )

stoneylonesome wrote:
And if you wreck it you're that much closer to the 30D.




Are they gone by dandelions by chance? I remember as a child picking them and blowing the seed pods all over much to the chargrin of my Dad, he knowing that there would be twice the crop in the lawn next year.

ha ha ha

if only that happened with the beautiful flowers we want repeated over and over in the garden
it's always the weeds which multiply and spead themselves around, without much help from us humans


as kids we blew the fluffy seeds off the stem and said: 'he loves me, he loves me not' .......'he loves me. he loves me not'

puff ............... nearly out of wind



the last seed told the story , whether love was true
(or not)




on a more sober note

>>>
Congratulations to the team
and all connected
I think you will be happy about Liverpool's win Damian

Superb Damian,more than worth braking the camera,it will not hapen of cours.

"I took these using the old G series trick of seeting to manual focus and then rotating the lens barrel by hand to get extreme close-ups. I'm sure it'll wreck the camera eventually but I've been doing it for 2 years and the results are worth the risk."


I don't understand why this would wreck it. How else would you focus in Manual???

Thanks everyone. My kids spend most of their free time in the garden and help nature spreadby doing just what Sandy and Marie talked about, except we used to say you could tell the time by the number of blows it took to remove all the seeds.

The G3 lens isn't designed to have a manual focusing lens as you would find on an SLR. Turning the lens by hand is not something the camera is meant to allow- but you can do it. Occassionaly it will cause a malfunction and the lens will lock in the extended position. Essentially when I do this I am forcing a motor to turn that isn't designed to be turned by hand.

Beautiful shots Damian... I can see another couple of winners for the next competition there
Well done,

Dragonfli Spirit wrote:
Beautiful shots Damian... I can see another couple of winners for the next competition there
Well done,

Thanks Donna. I think they might be entered into any competition about garden weeds!

great shots , check your dates we won the cup? 7 times now

Thanks dave- missed off 1992 for some reason!

Guess the win means my season ticket price will leap even more than usual.

Sharp close-ups. The structure of the flower is displayed quite nicely in these pictures.

Thanks Wizard13 -I actually used focus barcketing to get these asI find that helps.