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1000th Flickr Photo

1000th Flickr Photo, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

Up to photograph 1000 on flickr! Not all of them public.
This is my latest snap, of an hoverfly sitting on a black plastic ashtray. The photo was taken after a drunken evening playing poker in the garden, hand held with my macro lens and ring-flash.

More Drops

water drop 20, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

This water drop photography is getting quite addictive. There is a lot more to it than you might think. This one is red water dropped into a water and milk mixture. There are many more pictures on my flickr photostream.

Water Drop

water drop10, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

Got a new Macro lens the other day, a Tamron 90mm f2.8, which I am loving to bits at the moment.
Its amazing what you don’t see when its right in front of you until you stop time….

Stormy Weather

IMG_2920_1_2, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

You can tell its summer here in the UK, lots of nice storm clouds, and rain, and wind, and rain. This is an HDR composite of 3 images, normal and +/- 1 stop.

I found this picture on a strange website, sound familiar to anyone?

It’s A Boy!

My wife gave birth to our son, Ewan on Wednesday afternoon after a long, long labour.
Both are now home safe and well, awesome is the only word to describe it…

Meerkats

IMG_1945, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

Meerkats at Whipsnade Zoo.

Tulips

Tulips, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

Spring is definitely here now. Sunshine, flowers, insects…..

Raining

IMG_1596, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

I did say there would be more pictures…

Water drops on the washing line.

Gavs Eye

Eye, originally uploaded by Bambi_72.

I got some el-cheapo Chinese extension tubes from e-bay this week, bargain price of £7.99. I thought I would see what they could do with my 300mm zoom set to macro mode. I wasn’t expecting a very good image as they have no electrical contacts for the camera to control the aperture of the lens.
I applied a saturation filter to the image to get the black & white effect, masking out the coloured part of the eye. I am fairly pleased with the result, considering I was a bit drunk when I took the photo, on the full size image you can really see the texture on the back of the eyeball thru the pupil.