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Macro Moments Challenge #36 Bokeh

Posted on 2nd May 201730th March 2020 by Khürt Williams

Macro Moments Challenge #36 by Susan Gutterman (Musin' With Susan)

Congratulations to Khürt, a relatively new participant, for submitting the winning entry to Challenge #35. Khürt’s beautiful photo is called Rue Anemone and he includes lots of information about his settings and taking the shot in his post.

The word bokeh is a Japanese loanword to the English language. The term refers to the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image. Note that bokeh is not the same as a blur. Bokeh is the quality of the blur. Visible bokeh is often achieved by shooting at very wide apertures to…

Macro Moments Challenge #35 Hepatica

Posted on 18th April 201730th March 2020 by Khürt Williams

Macro Moments Challenge #35 by Susan Gutterman (Musin' With Susan)

It’s good to be back. March had five Wednesdays, so it’s been three weeks since the last challenge posted! Congratulations to justpat1 of https://pitammm.wordpress.com/ for submitting the winning entry to Challenge #34.

Over the weekend I went hiking in the Sourland Mountain Preserve and observed numerous wildflowers along the trail. The flower in the post header is Hepatica. Hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa) is a herbaceous perennial native to woodland in eastern North America. Once again I used the Kenko Auto Extension Tube Set DG but mounted…

Spring Beauty

Posted on 13th April 201724th March 2020 by Khürt Williams

Welcome to another Regular Random, where I spend just five minutes with a single subject or a frame, shooting from different angles, seeing how the light changes, all the while trying to interfere with the subject as little as possible.

Macro Moments Challenge #34 - Spring had Sprung

Posted on 4th April 201728th March 2020 by Khürt Williams

Macro Moments Challenge #34 (Musin' With Susan)

Welcome to Macro Moments #34 and thank you to everyone who entered the challenge over the past two weeks. I am delighted to announce this week’s winner, a newcomer named Preeti of ATTUNED P…

Macro Moments was created by avid macro photographer, Susan Gutterman, to share the beauty of macro photography and learn from other photographers. A new challenge begins on the 1^st and 3^rd Wednesday of each month. The winner’s photo may be featured on her blog and used as the banner in the announcement for the next…

Spring 2017

Posted on 26th March 201730th March 2020 by Khürt Williams

The Tuesday Photo Challenge is a weekly theme-based challenge for photographers of all kinds to share both new and old photography. #fpj-photo-challenge

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