350: Misted Floret

Settings: f/8, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 51mm extension, 1/4 flash (bounced,) tripod.

349: Rainbow Sprout

Settings: f/11, 1/180, ISO 100, 51mm extension, 1/4 flash, white card, tripod. Colour and tone curve adjustments, slight crop.

337: Future Compost

Settings: f/8, 1s, ISO 100, 50mm Cosinon M42, 17mm extension, tungsten light, cable release, tripod.

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.

328: Pepper Juice Purses

Not seaweed, but capsicum. The firm pockets of juice on the inner walls of this yellow pepper are very shiny, and are highlighted very effectively by lighting sideways on.

Settings: f/8, 1/4, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 68mm extension, 1/4 flash, tripod. Colour and levels adjustment, slight sharpen and crop.

325: Broccolilies

Flowers are not just for unusual salads - One bite of broccoli (calabrese) contains hundreds of these delicate, tiny green buds.

The anthers on these broccoli flowers look slightly like those of lilies - a big generalisation, but it led conveniently onto the title.

Settings: f/8, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 51mm extension, 1.4 flash, black velvet, tripod.

292: Scorpionion

Settings: f/5.6, 1/180, ISO 100, 58mm Helios-44M M42, 1/4 flash, white card, black velvet, tripod.

289: Frosted Chard

The frost is here again.
While I don't really like the cold, I appreciate how it creates pretty crystals of ice on things in the morning.

Settings: f/3.2, 1/100, ISO 200, P-FA 50mm. Monochrome conversion, curves adjustment and slight cropping.

228: Water Droplets On Leaf

Settings: f/5.6, 1/80, ISO 100, 50mm Cosinon M42, 16mm extension.

214: Courgette Cross-Section

Settings: f/8, 1/4, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 9mm extension, glass, 1/4 flash, white paper & cards, tripod. Monochrome conversion, cropping.

213: A Green Tomato

Settings: f/5.6, 1/50, ISO 200, 50mm Pentacon M42, 9mm extension.

212: Orange Beetroot

Settings: f/8, 1/60, ISO 200, DA 18-55.

209: Bound Beans

A roving squash tendril wraps around this green bean pod. I'm not bothering to free the pod, as these wrappings are surprisingly tough; and it's probably doing more good to leave it as it is. It looks interesting, so there's another reason to leave it.

Settings: f/4, 1/60, ISO 400, 50mm Pentacon M42, 9mm extension. Slight cropping, sharpening and noise reduction.

207: Green Beans

I can't seem to pick these beans fast enough now that the plants have started producing pods. They're already a strong contender for best crop of the year.
They're delicious too, raw or cooked. I don't know how good they're going to be when I've left some pods to grow bigger, but hopefully they'll not be too stringy.

Settings: f/5.6, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 9mm extension, 1/4 flash, white foam and cards, tripod.

176: Roots of a Beet

Some roots from slighty pot-bound a red beetroot here, just prior to re-planting. They really are pink all the way through.

Settings: f/5.6, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 19mm extension, 1/4 flash, white card, tripod.

175: Rondo di Nizza

Settings: f/5.6, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 19mm extension, 1/4 flash, 2 white cards, tripod.

160: Ruby Chard

Settings: f/5.6, 1/2.5, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 16mm extension, 1/4 flash, tripod.

158: Tiny Parsnips

Settings: f/2.8, 1/40, ISO 200, 50mm Pentacon M42, 16mm extension.

139: Chitting Revisited

Settings: f/8, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon f/1.8 M42, 16mm extension, 1/4 flash, foil & white reflectors, black velvet background. Slight Background cleanup.

137: A Reddish Radish

Settings: f/8, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon f/1.8 M42, 16mm extension, 1/4 flash, white & foil reflectors. PP background cleanup.