Well couldn´t resist to try little bit this again...:)

Diamonds

Well, "poor man´s diamonds".
In the weekend I was walking with snowshoes, looking for something to shoot...
Minus 10 Celsius and windy, nothing but snow, trees. But sun was shining.
Thought I could try to find some interesting shaped ice or something.
So I took out good old Soviet lens; Industar 50/3.5 and 36mm extension tube...
And I found these little bokeh-diamonds.
Liked so much this "bokeh-lightnings", I think I will use more time in the future with this kind stuff.
This time it was so cold; didn´t have tripod and finger we´re really freezing...

About equipment; maybe 70´s production Industar lens, with Kenko extension tube gives quite good magnification - of course not real macro. And controlling DOF is not so easy; especially when hand held.
I have M42 - Canon adapter with AF confirmation chip - but don´t trust that AF confirmation so much.
Better use Live view which I have in Canon 450D.
So really like the bokeh here; only if have more rounded would be even better...

 

Btw this little (I mean relly small...) lens cost 30€ inc postal...

Wasp!

Tight staring!

Red One

This beatiful red dragonfly (or damselfly) was sitting in the leaf of the rhubarb in our backyard.
Who knows what is the exact genre?