Flies and a spider on a Choisya bush

[GardenersHelper]

These were captured yesterday in our garden with a Raynox 150 close-up lens on an FZ330 small sensor bridge camera with Venus Optics KX800 twin flash. The aperture of f/8 was equivalent to f/45 on full frame, f/28 on APS-C or f/22 on micro four thirds in terms of depth of field and loss of sharpness/detail from diffraction.

The raw files were batch processed in DXO PhotoLab, Silkypix and Lightroom, with image-specific adjustments in Lightroom. There are 1400 pixel high versions in this album at Flickr.

#1

1324 05 2018_05_11 P1440621_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#2

1324 06 2018_05_11 P1440620_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#3

1324 01 2018_05_11 P1440543_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#4

1324 09 2018_05_11 P1440629_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#5

1324 02 2018_05_11 P1440565_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#6

1324 04 2018_05_11 P1440572_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

Continued in next post ....

 

[GardenersHelper]

#7

1324 14 2018_05_11 P1440651_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#8

1324 15 2018_05_11 P1440648_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#9

1324 16 2018_05_11 P1440649_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#10

1324 17 2018_05_11 P1440650_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#11

1324 13 2018_05_11 P1440642_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

#12

1324 19 2018_05_11 P1440688_DxO RAW SP7 LR7 1400h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

 

[Uncle Fester]

Excellent!

 

[alfbranch]

Lovely shots Nick

 

[Graham]

Annnnnnnnnd nick is back and in line with his always super photos.
Out of the complete set, No 4 imo is the best.
Lighting is as always spot on.
Welcome back Nick.

 

[RyanB]

These are all excellent, especially like #10.

 

[GardenersHelper]

Excellent!

Lovely shots Nick

These are all excellent, especially like #10.

Thanks Danny, Alf, Ryan.

Annnnnnnnnd nick is back and in line with his always super photos.
Out of the complete set, No 4 imo is the best.
Lighting is as always spot on.

Thanks Graham.

Welcome back Nick.

I may be drifting in and out of the forum for a while. Looks like I'll be having chemotherapy for several months and depending on how it goes I may not be up to doing much of anything some of the time. We'll see.

 

[Graham]

Oh s***ttt sorry to hear that.
[emoji33] Wishing you a speedy recovery nick.

 

[GardenersHelper]

Oh s***ttt sorry to hear that.
[emoji33] Wishing you a speedy recovery nick.

Thanks Graham. Unfortunately I have mesothelioma, a cancer associated with exposure to asbestos. There is no cure for it. Treatment can extend average life expectancy by several months from the average of 12 to 18 months from diagnosis. Oddly enough I feel fairly normal at the moment and went out to one of the local nature reserves this afternoon, and I'm in a surprisingly positive and happy frame of mind. So it's by no means all doom and gloom here at the moment. Hardly at all actually.

 

[alfbranch]

Thanks Graham. Unfortunately I have mesothelioma, a cancer associated with exposure to asbestos. There is no cure for it. Treatment can extend average life expectancy by several months from the average of 12 to 18 months from diagnosis. Oddly enough I feel fairly normal at the moment and went out to one of the local nature reserves this afternoon, and I'm in a surprisingly positive and happy frame of mind. So it's by no means all doom and gloom here at the moment. Hardly at all actually.

Sorry to hear that Nick. Look after yourself mate.

 

[GardenersHelper]

Sorry to hear that Nick. Look after yourself mate.

Thanks Alf.

 

[LCPete]

Excellent Nick light is spot on