PrettyTiny Film Company -- Alliecat's crew (July 5)

[Alliecat]

Another late Saturday hurry-up-and-shoot-something end-of-the-week pic-a-week... Battled the mosquitoes to shoot a few quick pix in the planter out front.  I swore I wasn't going to be planting here another year.... and here we are.    Anyway, here's Onyx.

[davidd]

Mysterious eyes on that little one.

Spectacular flowers already.

Bummer about the mosquitos. That's reason enough to move, right there.

[TrueFan]

Onyx is one of my favorite minis.

[Alliecat]

Early for pic-a-week this week, also done in a bit of a hurry, and you can't take just one dolly photo, so here are a few more of Catherine.

[Alliecat]

Back to being late for pic-a-week, and it was kind of gloomy. I probably should do some more with the open flower, and a tripod. Shouldn't really have tried hand-holding these, but oh well. Here's Jessie!

[davidd]

The water droplets look sharp in the first image, so I'd say you did fine with the hand-held shots.

The pinks are nicely saturated, and the highlights are evenly illuminated, so perhaps the overcast worked to your advantage.

[Alliecat]

Yes, cloudy-bright is often best, but in the zoomed version, it's not really sharp.  There's like no DoF with those close-up lenses.  I didn't get back up there with the tripod

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I didn't ex-pect to find a lot of mushrooms this early in the summer; I thought they appeared a bit later other years.  Anyway, this year there are several quite huge ones.  I didn't get my act together to catch them in the sun though.  Here are Roxann & Jewel.











Fairies' tea party!



Light painting doesn't have to be done only in the dark.  Was really losing daylight here so I tried to give it a boost.







Thanks for looking!

[davidd]

Not just large, but sturdy mushrooms!

I wonder how long they will last? In my eggsperience, mushrooms are in their prime for only a very short time. It's good you spotted them when you did to capture their magnificence.

Have you tried to identify the type?