On Blueberry Hill

[Nancy Bell]

Last week I picked blueberries at one of those you-pick-it places. In spite of keeping the blueberries in the refrigerator all weekend, this perfectly fine plant bug tumbled into my cereal bowl along with the berries. I arranged some blueberries in my little studio white box and let this bug crawl around for pictures. You can see from the size of the blueberries this is a small critter. Arranging blueberries is a bit like stacking balls, they keep rolling around :e3. I would have liked one more blueberry filling that notch behind the bug.

Canon 5D Mark III, Canon macro 100mm f.28, Canon macro twin flash ETTL at 0 setting, tripod, 1/125, f16, ISO 100

[John Robinson]

Thats a good one Nancy ! Love the texture of the fruit too, and nice positioning. Maybe remove the red blob ??

Fats Domino would love it !!
John

[Jonathan Ashton]

Love the contrast and the colours, the bug (stink bug of some kind is my guess) is in a great pose. the flash has worked well, you chose angles that did not result in too much reflection coming off the bug.

[MiroslavMaric]

Like the frame & combination of color and subjects :S3:. Well done, it looks great. Agree with John about red blob & I guess the flash light is a bit harsh. TFS.

[Nancy Bell]

Thanks all. I wasn't sure of the brown blob, it is the bottom of a blueberry.