Here's a feather that I photographed on a beach.  The feather design was very cool, but lots of clutter within the feather.  So, this one took a lot of work in post processing to create something artistic with it.  I used my Photoshop Elements, Nik Software's Vivesa and Topaz Glow to fix this image.

Here is the finished image.

Here is the original image out of the camera. Not very pretty.

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On Madeline Island teaching a flower workshop and here are a few of my images I shot prior to the workshop.

On Madeline Island in Lake Superior north of Wisconsin teaching a workshop and out shooting before the students show up on Sunday.

I got out early this morning to photograph a very nice group of ferns.

I'm not interested in shooting the plain boring ferns, I am looking for the crazy ferns. Here are a few I shot.

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For the last 20 years I've been teaching macro photography workshops and I've always told photographers to manually focus on your subject. 

With my mirrorless camera, I just have to look at the subject framed up on the LCD and decide where I want the focus and touch that spot, and the camera focuses right where I want it.

So much easier and faster than looking through the viewfinder and rotating the focus ring until I got the focus on the spot of the subject where I wanted it. 

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Here is the finished image. I liked the little vine that was growing around the stem and through the top of the flowers. 

Fuji X-T30 MKll Tamron 18-300
f/32 @ 1/125sec, ISO2000

Printed background behind the flower.

Creative processing with Smart Photo Editor.

Original out of the camera.

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