Special Sunday with the 20mm panny

[Iconindustries]

Special Sunday afternoon. Beautiful light and nature captured with the panny 20mm with my GF1. Photo's are not touched in any way and this lens really is something special.

The first is my dad's watermelon plant. This is a baby melon about 100mm long.

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The mesmerising fading light glowing through the fern fronds......

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A harmless wandering traveller on his journey to nowhere..........

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Regards,

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[Herman]

Great series, thanks. Shot two I like most. We got sunshine right now, seems that weather is improving.

Have a nice day.
Kind regards, Herman

 

[BBW]

Icon, thanks for these - they made me smile and reminded me of the simple beauty of every day life in "the backyard". Particularly love the baby melon - very sweet looking. I never really thought about melons quite that way before.

 

[Amin]

These are wonderful. Thanks for sharing them!

 

[Justified_Sinner]

Is the ant shot with just the lens or did you use a supplementary close-up "filter"?

Great shots, thanks.

 

[mark1000]

Wonderful feel good shots, thanks for sharing them.


Mark.

 

[Iconindustries]

Hey thanks everyone for your thoughts. It's really encouraging.
We just ate the first melon off that melon vine today and it was literally mouth watering. Sorry for my ignorance but do they grow watermelons in the UK?


For Justified Sinner's question. I just had the lens about 19-20cm away from the ant. But it looks closer than that because the ant is really big. We have some wild looking creatures in Australia. Even though these ants are huge they don't bite ,but out west further they have what you call meat ants. They can really nock you clean for a bit if they decide to have some fun.


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[Boyzo]

That lens is special Icon .. sometimes I forget

The melon has a way to go but up in sunny QL no probs
you got the light in #2, that ant looks menacing...

Cheers from Sunny Melb. :smile:

 

[Jake]

Great pics Icon. What software did you use to resize the pics?
Cheers Jake.

 

[Iconindustries]

Hey thanks Jake. I used Apple iphoto. I have LR as well but iphoto is just really simple and effective for a guy like me who doesn't need to tweak his photos much. It has the basics but nothing special like Photoshop or LR, which is great in one way because i know exactly what each feature does. And i learnt it in about 3 hours of mucking around.


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[Pelao]

Love the ant shot.

Detail is very impressive, as is the bokeh.