Flower Friday - FF10

Still foggy but it's supposed to clear by lunchtime.

The grape hyacinths, that I bought to encourage bumblebees a few weeks ago, are thriving in this weather. It's a shame the bees aren't about to enjoy them. Definitely looks better LARGE.

I took this with TheAphid's camera using his macro lens and I'm quite pleased with the result, especially as it was hand held. Talking of TheAphid he's blipped again, what is he thinking of? ;-)

Thanks to Biker Bear for continuing to host Flower Friday :-)

A message from Skeena about Mono Monday.

"Next week’s Mono Monday theme is ‘DEPTH OF FIELD’, tag MM164.

Now here’s the thing, all images have a depth of field (DOF), some very shallow like my example and others very wide were the image is sharpe from foreground to infinity. One thing I ask you try is do one you don’t normally do. This may involve coming off auto for some… 

I tend to have a shallow DOF because I have bad camera shake. Using a larger aperture will increase the speed you can take the image. The distance away from the subject will also effect the DOF. Nearer and shallower it gets. I was about 3” away from these pencils. There has been no fiddling with this image, it’s what my camera phone will do.

If you want to read some technical things about DOF try this. There’s plenty more to be found on the web thingy."