Another day: a different lens...

I came across this feature, yesterday, in the windbreak that runs almost the entire length of  Boscombe Pier, Dorset. I did make an obscure reference to it in the previous post, mentioning "...another day; a different lens" - and even took several reference shots at the time of discovery - but I knew I needed a specialist optic other than the one I had with me at the time to do it justice. Today I returned with a macro lens.

Looking more like some weird double-headed, push-me-pull-you-type specimen you might expect to see floating about on a slide under a microscope, they are, in fact, patterns created by impacts into the glass windows of the windbreak. How, exactly, they were made I can't say, but look for all the world to be the result two strikes of pellets from an air weapon. How ever they were created is of little consequence so long after the fact, but I just thought they produced an intriguing image, with a tinge of humour.



105mm f/2.8D EX Sigma macro lens. 1/500 second at f/5.6. - 0.33 EV compensation. ISO 640. Monopod


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