After the rain
by Quigley

Comment by sherpet:
I am annoyed with myself, as I really LOVE this floral image, and I thought I had it in 'my favorites' already, but did not, so have corrected my error right now, and have added it, and also you Max, a favorite photographer.....

Weathering the Years
by Quigley

Comment by rlewis:
Never heard of a Fargo. Nice image, good color and positioning

New Life on the Forest Floor
by Quigley

Comment by surfdabbler:
Wow, nice fluorescent image. :) The focus here is slightly in front of your subject. For such macro shots, you should be using spot focus and a little tripod or beanbag, but I'm guessing at 1/6s, you were using something already. Manual focus would be even better if you are good at it (but my eye tends to focus worse than auto-focus, so I never use manual). The other focus trick for macro work is to set the focus roughly, and then move the camera forward and backward. You could also easily get away with closing the aperture a little to widen the depth of field. For editing with an image like this on DPC, I would tend to mute the saturation a little, so it's not quite so over the top, and maybe shift the colour balance a little away from the greens.

New Life on the Forest Floor
by Quigley

Comment by colorcarnival:
Very cool. Looks like a blooming orange mushroom. With these colors, I bet it looks great on the wall!

Ol' Green Eyes
by Quigley

Comment by roz:
lol max .. when i saw this one in with my one in pik your fav pic ... i thought .. 'i dont remember taking that photograph" ..!!! .. then straight away i remembered you saying you'd taken a photograph of a dragonfly and you'd show it to me when you'd processed it .
the colours are awesome .. i'm wondering which lens you used .. ?? ..and yes .. they can be very difficult to photograph .. patience and lots of it is the necessary ingredient .. i dont have a lot of that so i must miss out on a heap of good shots .. there can be lots of waiting around and also disappointment when the big ones that you want to shoot dont stay long in one place .. anyway max .. thanx for posting it .. its a great shot .. :) ..
ps .. thankyou for your kinds words .. but i'm a very ordinary photographer .. to ge as good as me isnt really that good at all .. i'm better in photoshop than behind a camera .. !!..:)

New Life on the Forest Floor
by Quigley

Comment by pjangel:
Looks a little too OOF

Bee Bokeh
by Quigley

Comment by undieyatch:
This has become one of my favorites from this challenge. The soft glow of this lens is quite beautiful. The edit is excellent & the dominating bloom is beautiful, (voted this 6) but I also like it as an fine & rare use (at least on dpc) of this difficult, fixed aperture, unusual lens. I noticed the subtle circular bokeh, an interesting characteristic of a mirror lens, while voting, but at the time was not aware of how that could occur. My criticism would be that the crop is too tight, not enough bokeh shown.

New Life on the Forest Floor
by Quigley

Comment by jjstager2:
A lot of your shot is out of the DOF. Love the colors.

New Life on the Forest Floor
by Quigley

Comment by photokariangel:
shroomies. great contrast between the oranges and the greens. really makes the little fungi stand out

New Life on the Forest Floor
by Quigley

Comment by Shadowfax23:
great colors