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Just below Barns Ness Lighthouse is an old wooden platform that was a quay or a barge and is now lying derelict on the beach.  Time and tide has taken its toll and the ironwork has rusted and the wooden beams rotted.  The result is some beautiful patterns and colours in the wood and the metalwork and it is the perfect subject for the Nikon D800 and Nikon 105mm f2.8 micro lens. Here are some of the results from yesterday's shoot at Barns Ness - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CAN...

Another day of bad weather in Grantham had me looking for something to photograph indoors.  As it is Mother's Day tomorrow here in the UK we had some flowers in the house so I 'borrowed' one for a quick table top studio shoot in my office. After several images from various angles of the flower head I decided to go for a macro shot and put a drop of water on the petals to give a point of focus. Using the Nikon D800 fitted with the Nikon 105mm f2.8G micro and a very simple set up using a LED head torch as the light source, I decided to then try one shot with a very large depth of field and one with a shallow depth of field. Here are the results - Nikon D800 - Nikon 105mm f2.8G AF-S micro - 1/15 @ f9 - ISO 100 Nikon D800 - Nikon 105mm f2.8G AF-S micro - 5s @ f51 - ISO 100 Simple set up - Nikon D800 - Nikon 105mm f2.8G AF-S micro - LED Head Torch as the light source -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

While out and about in the Peak District we came across this rock face covered in icicles where the water flowing off the hill had frozen.  With the temperatures rising the ice had started to melt and the rock face was covered in water drops, some running down the icicles before dropping to the ground.   We set about capturing the scene before the temperature melted the ice, being careful note to get the cameras too wet from the falling water, which was like rain under the rock but also being careful to be hit by icicles that were falling off as the ice melted. This shot was caught at the perfect time as the water drop formed on the tip of the icicle before falling to the ground.  I used a Nikon SB600 flash gun on wireless remote to light the back of the ice.  All images taken on a Nikon D800 with 60mm f2.8 AF-D Micro lens -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...