A small stand of Wild Bergamot in bloom, its lavender-pink flower heads rising on slender stems above green foliage, with a softly blurred stone courtyard wall in the background.

Touched by Light: The Textures of Wild Bergamot

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Lens-Artists Challenge #397: Texture For this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge, Anne has chosen a topic close to my heart: texture. As she puts it, texture “gives us the visual quality of a surface — how rough, smooth, gritty, or soft it … Read More

Wild Bergamot

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This week, I decided to do a little experiment at home using my Samsung S23 and a macro adapter I had purchased around 2019. The particular adapter came with two lenses: a wide-angle and a macro lens. It is merely … Read More

Beyond the Blur with Zooming ICM

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Lens-Artists Challenge #350: Zooming The featured image is one of the first images I captured using the zooming ICM technique. That was back in 2022. I really enjoyed the results I obtained. From time to time, it’s fun to get … Read More