I do like 4934 and 4943, Moose, although many of them are rather tasty.
I thought of you and Carol the other day: my wife decided to spend a little
inheritance and buy a caravan which we can tow places on holidays. It might be
a little larger than the Turtle, but the promise of freedom, even on this
little island, is very pleasing.
Of course, some call them a “shed on wheels” rather disdainfully, but we plan
to have fun despite them :-)
Chris
> On 23 May 2016, at 06:06, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Wednesday, we had occasion to be in Vallejo at 6pm. Driving up at that time
> on a weekday, involves awful commute traffic - and - they are doing roadwork.
> Looking around on the map, I found a park I'd never been to, the Benicia
> State Recreation Area. so we left early encountered less traffic slowdown
> than anticipated, and spent a couple of very pleasant hours there. We went
> wandering in the Forrest Deaner Native Plant Botanic Garden. It isn't much
> larger than its name, the peak flower season is past there and we have a much
> larger native plant BG very close to home. But with the different climate,
> they had nicer specimens of some flora and some beautiful flowers.
>
> I took the opportunity to try a bunch of hand held focus stacks using the
> Nikon 5T C-U lens on PLeica 100-400 lens, and that's mostly what's in this
> little gallery.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=SFBayArea/Forrest%20Deaner%20Native%20Plant%20Botanic%20Garden
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=SFBayArea/Forrest%20Deaner%20Native%20Plant%20Botanic%20Garden>>
>
> Also a Northern Mockingbird displaying and a maple seed that looks like a
> flying creature with eyes.
>
> It was an interesting exercise. There was a breeze blowing, not steady, so
> getting some subjects in the frame and in focus at the same time wasn't
> always easy. But that's what I was trying out, how practical casual focus
> stacking is in the field. the E-M5 II does have built-in focus bracketing, as
> they call it, but I didn't think it would work with the often, and
> unexpectedly, dancing subjects.
>
> The two not so close images are only two shots each, but it makes a big
> difference in the DoF. A couple of two shot only C-Us also came out rather
> well. With such a long FL and close focus, the background is nicely soft,
> with rather attractive bokeh, even at f11, so I only needed a couple of shots
> for
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=SFBayArea/Forrest%20Deaner%20Native%20Plant%20Botanic%20Garden&image=_A004945-46oofm.jpg
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=SFBayArea/Forrest%20Deaner%20Native%20Plant%20Botanic%20Garden&image=_A004945-46oofm.jpg>>
>
>
> and this
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=SFBayArea/Forrest%20Deaner%20Native%20Plant%20Botanic%20Garden&image=_A004943-44croof70.jpg
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=SFBayArea/Forrest%20Deaner%20Native%20Plant%20Botanic%20Garden&image=_A004943-44croof70.jpg>>
>
> The vagaries of wind had hand holding at high magnifications led to some
> oddities. I didn't get the shots focally spaced well for this one, so there
> is something like a Plane of Unfocus part way back.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=SFBayArea/Forrest%20Deaner%20Native%20Plant%20Botanic%20Garden&image=_A004934-37croofm.jpg
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=SFBayArea/Forrest%20Deaner%20Native%20Plant%20Botanic%20Garden&image=_A004934-37croofm.jpg>>
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