macro/micro pom-pom

[murfam]

I was out in the yard to do some gardening in the cool of the evening when I saw this dandelion puffball in the lawn. The heck with gardening, I got out my camera and was down on my belly trying to capture the image before I lost what little light there was left. I bumped the ISO up to 1600 and set my lens to manual focus on macro at 135 mm and started shooting while shifting my position ever so slightly for each shot. some would have the rim in focus bit not the center and some would be the other way around, but ONE came out clear as a bell, and here it is. I did some minor post work, cropping and such and I saved it as a TIFF file so my EXIF was lost but I think it's worth it.
Date: 5/25/08
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Canon EF 28mm X 135mm
Exp." f/6.3 @ 1/160 sec.
ISO 1600