try as I might...

...I just couldn't make this image of a crane fly resting on the wall by my front door one day last week interesting.  After all, it's just a very flat insect on a very flat wall.

And sometimes you just have to accept that getting a record shot of a subject is just fine, and that's all this week's image is - a record shot.  And a cropped in close-up as well.  Two for the price of one!

The only complication was having to focus bracket.  Yep, even though the scene was likely only three millimetres or so deep and shot at a narrow aperture of f8, getting that close resulted in only slivers of the image being in focus at any one time.

Fujifilm X-H2, Laowa 65mm f2.8 ultra-macro
1/15th of a second at f8, ISO 125
tripod, self-timer release
15 shot focus bracket stacked in Helicon Focus

While we're off air over on YouTube, here's a short montage of my favourite images of the year so far: