beautful detail on those thorns! they look dangerous and painful! i love it... totally unreal
Posted by sinstone at May 18, 2005 01:45 AMwwwwoooooooowwwwwwwwww
this one is amazing,
i love the colors, i love the focusing
great picture....
thanks
Posted by nicolas at May 18, 2005 02:31 AMWow, hot stuff Sam. Well done. Super rich colors and detail where it's needed.
Posted by Jessyel Ty Gonzalez at May 18, 2005 02:37 AMThose are some sinister looking thorns. I love how they're colored darker towards the tips, and the selective focus on this one is perfect. Definitely one of my favorite shots here.
Posted by Tai at May 18, 2005 02:53 AMnice one.like the picture going from focus to blurry, with the same subject. i have never been successful at such shots, and maybe so admire them even more :)
Posted by aashish at May 18, 2005 03:02 AMthat's a pretty well protected briar.. love the colour and angle and the shallow dof is very effective. good luck with the exhibition!
Posted by darragh at May 18, 2005 03:11 AMThis one's quixotic aquatic.
Photoshop gaussian blur? Regular (if I may call it thus) macro?
Do tell.
Posted by HiMY SYeD at May 18, 2005 03:31 AMI love macro photography. And to me this is a great macro shot.
Posted by Tobias at May 18, 2005 03:44 AMWouaw :)
Posted by djam at May 18, 2005 03:54 AMGreat closeup with some lovely colour; can almost feel the sharpness of those thorns.
Posted by David H-W at May 18, 2005 04:04 AMSuperb macro shot, those thorns are so big.
A little too far for me to make the journey from Southern England to come a see your exhibition this time, maybe next time.
Posted by Andy (SensorChip) at May 18, 2005 04:10 AMGood closeup shot ... one of the best of the best shot!great!
Congrats on the exhibition, Sam.
And thanks for the link to Titka's work. Its beautiful.
Posted by Zishaan at May 18, 2005 05:20 AMI visit often but never comment. This photograph is particularly captivating to me. That would make a wonderful wallpaper image.
Posted by David July at May 18, 2005 05:22 AMScary looking thorns! The sharpness is quite impressive and the DoF is very pleasing. Congrats and good luck for your show.
Posted by nuno at May 18, 2005 05:30 AMVery nice... the great background colours set this off superbly.
Posted by Mike Golding at May 18, 2005 05:37 AMVery impressive, I love it.
Posted by Denis at May 18, 2005 05:40 AMThis is a great shot. I like DoF. Nice job.
Posted by .:pvav.photoblog:. at May 18, 2005 06:13 AMI have only just started visiting your site but can tell you I will be here every day! These shots are amazing, keep up the good work!
Wishing you the very best for your exhibition.
I'm sorry I'll be missing this one too.
Sam, you are the Man! God, you're good. All these people (me included) buy these fancy lenses and you get more out of a kit lens than we do out of a kit of lenses. I'm not sure I could have done any better with a 100mm f2.8 macro. Great composition, blur, everything.
Posted by Richard at May 18, 2005 08:21 AMBeautiful colors and very sharp, this would be a great wallpaper for my desktop (hint, hint)
Posted by Garfield at May 18, 2005 08:42 AMwonderful macro!
Posted by Liisa Anderson at May 18, 2005 08:52 AMYES! This is stunning! The narrow depth of field is great of course, but the detail within that section is... well, so sharp!
Posted by Scott at May 18, 2005 09:23 AMGreat shot. The depth of field is just perfect.
Posted by Ian at May 18, 2005 09:30 AMI very much enjoy your macro work here. I think the depth of field chosen, and the point of focus, go hand-in-hand to produce an interesting photograph. Also it is impressively captured at 1/50s. You seem quite skilled at keeping extremely still to produce these wonderous results. Thanks for that.
Posted by Brent at May 18, 2005 09:34 AMlooks like some middle-age instrument of torture...amazing perspective
Posted by daisy at May 18, 2005 09:44 AMGreat photo. Best of luck tomorrow. i have a surprising number of Canadian visitors to my Minnesota blog so I will post a notice there.
Posted by K at May 18, 2005 10:00 AMLove it. Any chance of a larger version (say 1440x900)? :)
I check you're site every couple of days and more often than not it makes me smile. You've got a great eye, that's for sure.
Posted by Mark at May 18, 2005 10:03 AMIncredible shot! Wallpaper please :)
Posted by rz at May 18, 2005 10:17 AMGreat color and depth of field! I love the clarity in the spines. It's always good to see a nature shot.
Excellent capture!
Posted by Ryan Rahn at May 18, 2005 10:18 AMI've done a couple of similar things, though not as well. Seeing your thorns image causes me to wonder, is it a subconscious philosophy or general attitude that makes us both ignore the flowers and focus on the thorns?
Perhaps that thought is a little deeper than we should go on this one. Let's just say, yet another interesting image, great work, Sam!
Nice shot. kinda like life on the wrong end of the stick. it hurst when your going down
Posted by bryanj at May 18, 2005 10:31 AMVery nice! I've been watching your photos from RSS feeds for awhile now and had to comment on this one. Bravo!
Posted by Geoffrey at May 18, 2005 10:32 AMVery nice macro shot. The detail on the thorns is perfect.
Posted by Ryan at May 18, 2005 10:56 AMSo incredibly beautiful, yet so incredibly painful!!
This is a phenomenal shot - surreal and otherworldly. Designed by God, noticed by Sam, thoroughly enjoyed by us!
Thanks again, Sam!
Posted by Kathy at May 18, 2005 11:38 AMVery nice Sam. I particularly like the softness on the right side combined with the crisp thorns on the left.
Posted by vincent at May 18, 2005 12:39 PMLove it, love it, LUVIT!
(Would be perfect stock photography, except for the scar on the left side of the branch.)
Posted by Kevin at May 18, 2005 01:21 PMThe first thing I thought when I saw this was "I must have this as my wallpaper!"
You have really been on a roll lately Sam, the last few days of pictures have been amazing.
Posted by Mark at May 18, 2005 01:26 PMeven more handsome than the yesterday man.
Posted by NEGAR at May 18, 2005 02:54 PMThe best wallpaper ever...quality nice. You´ve got it!
Mike
Posted by Michael at May 18, 2005 03:20 PMI love this shot. Amazing colors and great depth of field. Well done again!
Posted by Telli at May 18, 2005 03:35 PMWow that's very good contrast & sharp color!
Why you don't have a single website like www.javanrooh.com or ...?
Best regards,
Arash Behjou
sam, u've done it again!amazing
Posted by Andrei at May 18, 2005 05:43 PMAmazing picture! I felt like I got prickled just by looking at it.
Posted by Raffi at May 18, 2005 05:59 PMthe image looks so sharp as do the thorns itself. it really is great!
Posted by vanessa at May 18, 2005 06:20 PMWow, that's a real good one. I like it!
Posted by Kathrin at May 18, 2005 06:25 PMCool.
Posted by Maran at May 18, 2005 08:16 PMWow that's some intense DOF. I especially like the detail in the smaller thorns. Funny I just noticed where this was taken. I just put up a shot from a different St James' Park.
Posted by Smallest Photo at May 18, 2005 08:27 PMI just discovered your blog. Great site! The thorns in today's photograph remind me of the tail of a Stegosaurus.
Posted by jeannette at May 18, 2005 09:18 PMGreat macro, Sam. Nice work!
Posted by Abe at May 18, 2005 10:12 PMIt is wonderful how realistic it looks, I feel as though I am really sitting in a briar patch inspecting a thorny branch. You have captured the 3-D reality of the subject. Congrates on this pic!
Posted by Marie-Claire at May 19, 2005 01:23 AMYour photos are too good for the lens that you use. Sometimes I wonder if this is not a canon marketing ploy
Posted by Alex Brown at May 19, 2005 10:31 PMmy second-favorite one on this site. freaking awesome.
(number 1 is 'six, no three windows and stairs')
Posted by tommy at May 24, 2005 07:05 PM