Mike McCaffrey 
I took macro photos of a bunch of neat plant parts I found yesterday, but I can't post them all, so maybe we can try an interactive exercise?
Tell me which of these objects you'd like to see close-up, and I will post a very detailed photo of it!
If I had to choose my favorite from the plants I found yesterday, it is probably the English Ivy berries that look like a space-age retro-future light fixture.
Anyone want to see close-up photos of one of the other items?
Sam 
@mikemccaffrey Yes!
@ravenbait Which one?
@mikemccaffrey Your choice of bark.
@ravenbait Unfortunately, I didn't think to record what kind of tree the chunk of bark in the middle is from, but the close-up photo makes it look an asteroid in space or some type of insect.
@mikemccaffrey That texture is delightful.
James Savage@mikemccaffrey are you taking these in a shadow box or removing the backgrounds in post. All of these have had really nice separation and framing.
@axiixc I stole a velvet necklace box that my wife had lying around. I was trying to take the photos while out on my walks, but the dogs kept tugging while I was trying to hold my camera steady for the series of focus stacking shots.
@mikemccaffrey haha. Well it looks great to me!
SolaršGarden@mikemccaffrey I'd like to see what you found in the small blue jobby which I think might be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_persica -- this WP page has a few macros on it for x-ref
@wavesculptor It definitely is a Veronica, but this species seems like a better match:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_hederifolia
In any case, up close, I think it kinda looks like a baby bird with its open mouth pointed straight up!
@mikemccaffrey Nice depth into the partially open flower, and translucency, if a bit over on the lit side.
V persica is one I'm more familiar with from UK, and is more prostrate; V hedera should have "abundant spreading, wavy hairs 1 mm long (but forming a thick line along one side of the stem)."
@wavesculptor Yeah, the one issue I am having with my new camera (the TG-7) is that it is constant overexposing things unless I specifically turn down the exposure.
@mikemccaffrey do/did you use a diffuser?
@wavesculptor Yup the TG-7 has a ring diffuser that takes the LED light next to the flash and spreads it into a circle around the lens.
Unfortunately, it has a habit of over exposing things in regular daylight without any lighting.
@mikemccaffrey I'm sure I'm saying a grandmother-eggs thing, but it may be the camera is using a different metering algo than you're used to? Have you tried the quick shortcut a lot of cameras have, the half-press on the shutter with the part of the scene you want metered in the x-hairs, you get some sort of acknowledgement, like a frame around the metered section, then you press full shutter for image?
sleepingexplorer@mikemccaffrey I would like to see all of them. I appreciate the ivy berries, been trying to draw them. Especially curious about the piece just below the ivy berries, not sure what it is?
@sleepingexplorer Right below the ivy berries is the multi-headed flower of some kind of dandelion or thistle. All the little seeds pods were on it when picked, but they exploded all over in transit and got everywhere, but I guess that is their whole purpose.
@mikemccaffrey oh wow! Beautiful. It's amazing seeing them in this detail.
Loretta@mikemccaffrey I vote for the iris.
@LorettaMcC The iris didn't have too much close-up detail, but is still beautiful!
