Nature

Album photos from Stickan1
I have been to Italy for a one week workshop organised by TPW and my teacher was Sally Gall. She gave us an assignment one day that was to make the image that you would like to take with you into a world without any visual information. Not easy to do that in Italy for me, but here is the result.
It has been a really long winter this year, but now the snow is melting very fast.
Just playing, but when I saw these ferns I came to think of heads so this is the result.
Just before midnight. Lofoten, Norway, 70 degrees North
Testing my ability to focus the MP!
Cypripedium calculus, beautiful, but it was hard work as there were hundreds of blood thirsty mosquitos all over the place. This image is a focus stack of five images using Helicon focus.
This is part of a project with the same title. Every image is shot with Zeiss glass, either with M9 or D800E. Please have a look at: http://stickan1.1x.com/gallery/71360
I have used an extension tube OUFRO on my Leica M and it turns into a competent macro camera!
I published a BW version of this image in october. I use Silver Efex Pro a lot and as Google bought NIK Software they are offering their whole collection for free. So this is an experiment with quite a lot of PP.