Beads and Bangles
If you like succinct then this post is for you.
Its been raining and horrible for a few days, and I have been slouching around at home. Bereft of subject matter I resorted to the Christmas tree.
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I was taking Christmas pictures for my wife’s use and then took these leaving camera with the 100mm macro lens with star filter on. Hand-held these shots not expecting a great deal, exposures range from 1/20th to 1/100th of a second (so don’t look for technical perfection).
It’s an index of my seasonal laziness that I have not returned to the tree to take some of these shots properly.
burnt embers 
I love the first shot 🙂
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Hi Juanita – me too!
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I do love the shallow depth on that first shot a lot. Pretty good for hand held I’d say.
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Thank you Ken – shallow depth was pretty much all I had to work with if I was handholding. Well, I could have cranked the ISO but I was not really taking pictures to keep, just fooling around in a lazy way. I see that the beads are dusty, which is a common condition around here.
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Great dof in that first one.
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Thanks!
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I really like the first and last shots. Nice.
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Thanks Danita – the last shot seems like my kind of image. I like the first shot because the old glass beads are such nice things – used by my wife’s grandmother for many decades. And I like the grid which the star filter overlays on the out of focus beads.
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