Blooms with the Sony

Continuing to work with the Sony, yesterday i spent sometime learning how to use the camera for macro work:

Full image of a rhododendron 

cropped to the center

This is 21 images that are stacked focused. It turns out that neither Helicon Focus nor Lightroom will allow the Sony to tether into their software. Bummer, really. Makes this kinds shooting much more difficult, not impossible but certainly challenging.

A bit over a week ago i took the Sony to the local botanical garden and came away with these:

I didn't seem them at the time but there are a lot of aphids on the second flower stem clearly visible against the green background. I don't know what the name of this flower is.

There were also Lady Slippers that a passerby mentioned to me and they were beautiful and, i believe, i'd not seen this kinda of flower before other then a picture in a magazine:

And then there were these very cute little bells:

The plant that had these bells had hundreds of them and the difficulty was deciding how many to focus on.

All in all, the Sony is working out very well and i feel i've just barely touched upon its possibilities.