336: Winter's Root

The biggest parsnip I've pulled from the garden so far. A source of modest pride, it was very tasty when roasted.
I adjusted this photo quite a lot, as I wanted to make my cold fingers look even pinker at the tips, while bleaching some of the other colour and giving a Chiaroscuro effect to the image.
The result is certainly unusual, but so is the original capture.

Settings: f/2, 1/60, ISO 400, P-FA 50mm. Colour and curves adjustment, slight crop.

262: Polar Appendages

North-West meets South-East...
Both fleshy, bony masses shaped by ages of evolution, both specialised in their own unique ways.
Feet are pretty rubbish at holding objects, but at least the tight fit of fingers between toes here allows for the loose illusion of a mutual grip. Knuckles look ready to crack.

Settings: f/2, 1/50, ISO 200, 58mm Helios-44-2 M42, fluorescent lamp. Curves & colour adjustment; slight sharpening, noise reduction & cropping.

131: Ghostly Hand Trails

A simple experiment with long exposure time and manually triggered flash strobe. I appear to have plasma trailing from my fingertips, but I don't mind. It's a perfectly natural four-dimensional phenomenon.

Settings: f/11, 2 sec, ISO 100, DA 18-55, 1/4 flash, 50W halogen light, black velvet, tripod.