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Thank you, Jan! :-)

Miss Macro herself calls it “great”! I am STOKED!!!!

Thank you so much, Trudi! Your macro work is part of what drives me to do better. I’ll catch you sooner or later (probably later…) :-D

LOL! Thank you, babe! I’ve thawed, I think…

Gracias Veikko!

Thank you! And if you’ve fought for a shot like this, I hope you got a reward as cool as I feel I got for my struggle. :-) After looking at your work, I’m pretty sure you did! :-D

I thank you, Jan! I’m darned happy all the way around for a change. LOL!

Thank you!~

Thanks! :-)

I’ve warmed up since. Thank you! ;-)

Debbie, your praise is ALWAYS welcome!

Thank you! :-D

Thanks! Now you’ll be looking in YOUR backyard and finding what’s dripping about. LOL!

Thank you and a gorgeous name you have!

My smile is true because the ends of my mouth turn upwards like a dolphin. But that’s OK since people think dolphins are happy too. LOL!

Thank you! I think this was the first feature I’ve gotten within less than 5 minutes of posting. Woo hoo!

Well Rachel, you are most welcome! I’m usually a bit verbose and try to limit it to less than 10,000 words but sometimes I can’t help it and my typing just runs on and on and on, sorta like the Energizer Bunny without all the cuteness and the energy and the pollution caused by that kind of battery. See? In less than 10 seconds I can bore the ever-loving LIFE out of you. LOL! But seriously, thank you! :-D

Thank you! You must be under the age of ANCIENT because you can still hold your body still enough for this technique. LOL! I now know that I’ve got to have something better in the way of a tripod, maybe one of those trigger-handled units because I could die of hypothermia to get The Shot! LOL!

That is exactly what I’m referring to and it was all but useless in a situation like this one. I wasn’t even worried about DOF since the SUBJECT was never in focus. LOL! But I paid less than $30. I bet you could add a zero to the end of than number and STILL not be able to buy what YOU got!

OK, a question for YOU. I was less than an inch from the ‘filter type’ lens’ edge to the drop. Does your 60mm need to be that close or does it just GET that close with the imagery? 60mm sounds like a long way away compared to 10mm. And does it have image stabilization or are you forced to use a tripod no matter what? Either way, the shots you get are stellar so you’ve mastered whatever approach you use. :-)

Thank you. And I can live with that. :) sno-globe is more ‘simple pretty’ and this is more along the lines of detail of lichen, which isn’t all that pretty, per se. I guess I love this one because it tried to kill me – same reason I love women in general. ;)

I thank you very much, Gili!

Thanks much! I was soooooooooooo disappointed when I learned the magnifier wasn’t wide angle but it will do fine for the tiniest of subjects if I can get the focal range correct physically. The Nikon just doesn’t know what to do with what it’s seeing. LOL!

I thank you very much, Sharon!

:D Thank you, my grasshopper and yes, we’ll catch up soon as I’m sure we’ve got a lot to talk about. :)

Woo hoo! Thank you so very much!!!!

I thank you for all your really sweet comments! :-D

I thank you!

You can drop by anytime you feel the urge, darling! I’m not a big droplet fan but I’m becoming one. I know: “Oh! The horror! The Horror!” :-D

Thanks much!

LOL! Thank you very much but retrieve that jaw or kissing is gonna really such from now on. :-)

Thank you very much, Daniel. :-) There is little of mine that brings me immediate joy so this piece is precious to me. Knowing that you like it too is priceless because that’s what an artist needs to hear to keep working and wanting OTHERS to share the work too. Your comments are appreciated. :-D

I thank you very much! I’m still learning the new pocket rocket for my macro shooting, the Panasonic TZ4, but I hope to manage at least something worthy of sale before 2020 (when everyone who’s alive gets to have perfect eyesight!!!!) If not, I now have the macro filter for the Nikon DSLR’s so I can do drops, which is about the only thing you can do with a cheapo filter instead of a $2000 lens. The focal point of a filter is about the same size as a drop of water and everything else looks like fungus or shot thru a fisheye lens. (sigh)

There have been tiny sales to date but I still need to get over that initial $100 limit to be able to get a check from Red Bubble. I’m figuring I’ll have perfect eyesight first… ;-)

I appreciate that, Normf. :-) I can still look at this shot (and the edited series of about 10 shots) and feel OK, if not thrilled, about it. As they say, each of us is our own worst critic. But I always thought of critics as the most discriminating of the helpful commentators. LOL! Wow. I might be my best worst friend. Scary!!!!

Thanks again, Sharon! You are so kind. :-)

I thank you very much. :-)