After the rain

Last week we had a beautiful spring rain that left small drops everywhere. So of course I had to go out and explore things with my macro equipment… This damson plum flower was captured with the 60 mm canon macro attached to a 36 mm extension tube, using F16. Beautiful!

But the real treat was when I was looking at the photos in their full size. Here’s a 100% crop from the first photo (sadly it doesn’t fit here in full size). Yes, it shows that the photo isn’t quite sharp – full sharpness is very difficult to achieve, especially without a slider head on my tripod – but to find an entire world inside a 2 mm droplet… wow!