I took this photo for one reason, and one reason only, the light on the flower and the dark, shady background, made it almost glow.

Again, I have cropped the picture, added a little sharpening and that is about all.  I like the simplicity, and the contrast against the green and the bokeh afforded by a good macro lens.  In an ideal world the stem would have started further down the frame, but this would have meant there were other distractions in the picture.

I took this with my macro lens, ISO200, 1/125secs, f/11.0 – yep, still on shutter priority.

This photo was one I took on my way to work initially as part of a nature notes feature that I write on my other blog. It was a lovely May morning, but there had been a ground frost.  I had wanted a photo of a buttercup to show that they were about and taking over from dandelions in the effort to win most yellow flowers at a roadside.

However, when I opened up the photo in Lightroom I was surprised at the effect the frost had had on the flowers.  They look as thought there are holes in the petals, and, indeed, there is even some frost inside the flower itself.  I am still struggling somewhat with the focus on my new S90, but this time it did well.

I also have a photo of a dandelion on Flickr taken on the same morning (I think) which I am also pleased with, although I have cropped in more to show the detail on that one.

This photo is not perfect – more depth of field would have been good to get the definition sharper on the rear petals, and the background is not as blurred as it would have been with my macro lens, but then, the camera cost less than my macro lens, so I am not complaining.

The settings on the camera (I admit, it is taking me longer to put this camera in any kind of manual mode than it took with my SLR!) were ISO80, 1/125 secs at f/4.0, 6mm.