Portrait of pollen

A square format extreme macro photograph of a rather pretty self-seeded small geranium from my garden in Sissinghurst, Kent, UK. what you see here... more

by Mr Bennett Kent

Title

Portrait of pollen

Artist

Mr Bennett Kent

Medium

Photograph - Photos,canvas Prints, Photographs

Description

A square format extreme macro photograph of a rather pretty self-seeded small geranium from my garden in Sissinghurst, Kent, UK. what you see here are two stamens with grains of pollen coating them. The colourful centre, radiating from the bottom is further stamens (with some pollen grains) and the cerise veins of the petals, with the white background being made up of the non-veined petal sections. This was of course taken with the mighty beast called the Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5X lens on the Canon 7D at a working distance of 1.6 inches. This is my third outing with this beast of a lens, and, in the absence of a specialised speedlite (flash), my latest work around is a hand held (above and to the right, for some shadowing) speedlite, diffused and remotely triggered.........I feel I am beginning to tame the beast :0)

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May 18th, 2014