Drip, Rebelling, Momentarily

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I dug out the Miops Splash for the first time in ages tonight, and had a bit of fun with it.
We bought some lab jacks for the x-ray work we did recently. When I found them in the car boot the other night, it occurred to me that they might be a useful thing for macro work, so I've been playing with one of them with most of my setup on it. It's rather useful to be able to move the subject rather than, or at least in addition to manipulating the camera.
I'm quite tempted to buy myself at least one as a result.

Success!

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We finally got through the EMC tests we have been working on at work today, with the addition of a little widget we designed.
That's another bit of the project in the bag.
This one's a focus stack of 68 images.

Unrelated, but this is my 1250th post here.

Catkins or Microphones?

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A rather long day today, but I did manage to shoot this after I recovered a bit.

It's a focus stack of 15 shots, manually incremented

Hurried Camellia

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Lucy's camellia is coming out nicely this year.
I was a bit worried about it last year; it looked pretty sickly and failed to flower.
On the advice of greener-fingered humans, I dug it out of its pot, and found it had become badly pot-bound. A bigger pot and some more compost last year seems to have done the trick for this year.

This was a fairly rushed shot as I was on my way out Saturday afternoon, but I don't think it's too bad.

The Evening's Entertainment

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I stuck my sound man hat on again this evening for an "In Disguise" fundraising gig.

It all seemed to go rather well, with the dance floor filling up from about the third number, and some nice feedback from the organisers afterwards.

I have finally got round to tidying up my network, power, and monitoring accoutrements, with everything now mounted to a board. Setup was much easier and neater than it has been.

Like yesterday, this one's not much more than a snapshot, but I've shot so little this week, and it's a memory of a thing accomplished, so it means something to me, which is really why I'm doing this.

Flyball

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I went to Crufts with a friend, and we managed to get seats in the main arena for the Flyball among a few other events.

Lucy would have loved this, she really enjoyed watching Crufts, and particularly the Flyball on TV. We never got the chance to go together, with the spectre of Covid rearing its ugly head not long after she discovered how much she actually liked dogs.

Flyball is incredibly fast, the dogs make it there and back in around 4 seconds, sometimes less.

This one's no more than a snapshot really, but I've shot so little this week, and it's a memory of a good day, so it means something to me at least.

Dead Lifesaver

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Another backup photo, shot last week.
This one's another bit of playing with the new-to-me fisheye.
I thought the dead face graffiti was quite funny in the context of lifesaving equipment.

I could have done with a tripod here, I was pushing the limits of handholding (at least for me), at 1/10 sec, and I had the ISO cranked up to 25,600.
Even then, the result was quite dark, and I ended up whacking the exposure up by more than a stop in Lightroom.