I was walking around on my wooded property at dawn to see if something would catch my eye when I came across this old wood stump with some hoarfrost on it.
Not being prepared to do macro photography, I hurried back to the house to get my macro lens.
The sun was already peeking over the horizon and started to melt the frost so working quickly was imperative.
It took 13 shots to move the plane of focus through the picture and to make an image out of all those shots I had to focus stack in Photoshop.
Who knew the ice crystals would look like that when magnified. It is hard to come up with something to provide scale and I didn't want to put a ruler in the picture. This is not forensic photography. The frost was only maybe a 16th of an inch think.
After all that it looks like I walked up to the scene and took a quick snapshot. Oh well, however complicated it was to get the shot has no bearing on how much the viewer will like it.
Taken with my vintage Adaptall Tamron 35-80mm macro lens and a 2x teleconverter. Amazing what this old lens can do.
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