Failed hard drive with covers off, reflecting a screen capture on my monitor of the challenge page, inverted and flipped horizontally to achieve the correct visible orientation. Natural light from window. It is a mirror!
Post processing: Capture 1 followed by CS - crop, levels, USM, resize, USM and that is it.
Canon EF 100mm macro lens.
-0.6 exposure compensation.
I know it is the same model as "Smoke" - sorry!
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great focus, decent lighting (although it could be dialed back just a hair to avoid the blow outs--maybe a softbox could solve this?). if you aren't scoring well, it is probably because your a reflecting off of a non-traditional mirror.