Mini-Waterlily and Dragonfly
©2007 Ed Book
Canon EOS 1Ds MkII with 180mm macro. ISO100, 15sec @ f/22 with polarizer. lighting was ambient and I was holding an umbrella covered with a dark tarp overhead to reduce the sky reflection from the water highlights. The water lilies are growing in a muck bucket waiting for me to finish the pond. The flower is about 3/4inch across. Another muck bucket has the larger lily that will bloom later in the summer.
The dragonfly--was one of a few that I collected from the windows inside the house at the end of last summer. I put them in ziploc bags and stored them in my film refrigerator. (I no longer need a film refrigerator... maybe I'll take up beer drinking and will have a place to store the beer.)
Peace