Ugly

The 52 Captures prompt this week is "Ugly" and the 52Frames prompt is "macro" with an extra challenge of focus stacking so I decided to go all in and do all three challenges in one photo. This is a dried up seed pod I found on the sidewalk, similar to a chestnut. I have a focusing rail that I would normally use for manual focus stacking but this time I decided to use the built in feature in my Olympus EM10. I've had the camera for a year and never tried this feature. I thought it did pretty well. It takes eight images but doesn't blend them. That I did myself in photoshop. It wouldn't work for extreme closeups because 8 images wouldn't be nearly enough but it worked just fine on this image.

[Diana]

Amazing image with a great title.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

wow that's something!

[Casablanca]

All that ugliness holding the seeds of life inside - fascinating

[Kathy]

I think I'd agree with you. This is something rather ugly, looking pretty good in this photo.

[Joanne Diochon]

Beauty I guess is in the eye of the beholder. This is at least interesting as is your background info about the focus stacking feature in your camera.

[Bucktree]

Amazing shot and nice processing.

[LManning (Laura)]

An excellent response to all the challenges!

[Milanie]

Very nicely done

[Petespost]

Keen eye to notice the subject

[Shutterbug]

Interesting subject. I think you did the focus stacking well.