121: A Sun Follower's Arrival

Settings: f/10, 1/100, ISO 100, P-FA 50mm.

083: Moss Stalks

This is a 100% crop from some animation I have been doing today; the detail of some wispy stalks in a mat of moss.
A clump of moss from a neglected pot in the garden sits in a firmly-secured box of sand. I carefully picked at and shifted it with a pencil for a couple of hundred frames, pulling apart the mat of moss a little bit more every frame until I finally started to attack it with scissors and mix it with sand until it looked nothing like the moss it once was.
It's now been returned to the garden. The animation turned out pretty good.

Settings: f/5.6, 1/15, ISO 200, 50mm M42, 10mm extension.

066: The Year We Make Potatoes

Not the year 066, I mean 2010. As far as I know, we haven't made contact yet, or built a great big spacecraft to travel to Saturn to check out all the weird happenings there...
Crap Sci-Fi film title reference aside, we can at least grow potatoes. Check out the super furry shoots on this one - coming along nicely.
A maincrop potato like this "Desiree" variety doesn't benefit much from chitting before planting, but it's not like I have a choice; they'll just start anyway. So they're kept in the light, where they go green, short and furry instead of in the dark where the shoots go long, pale and stringy.

Settings: f/11, 1/180 sec, ISO 200, same lens as yesterday but with black background.