About the Image(s)

For those who saw a different image from me a few days ago - sorry! I uploaded one I'd used previously, and Mike spotted it soon after. So I took it down, and have replaced it with this.

This would never appeal to a judge, but somehow I find it interesting. It's not strictly a macro, but uses a macro technique, if I can claim that.

It was taken at Penrhyn Castle in North Wales in the summer. All of these historic properties have interesting objects in them, usually in low light. I can't resist a challenge, so I tried a stack on this posie of flowers on a table, stacking to keep the background in focus to give context. Reaching over a barrier, my original was a bit wonky, so a bit of processing was needed to straighten, deal with the massively over-exposed light, and crop off excess. Using a wide-angle lens give a good view of the background, but I don't know of any 17mm (34mm full frame) ones!

OM Systems OM-1, 1/8 sec, f1.8, ISO 1000, Olympus 17mm f1.8 lens, a bracket of 7 photos, hand held. Stacked in Helicon Focus, processed in Affinity 3.