A counterpart to my experience shooting the thistles against the cardinal flowers that I posted not long ago, this was one of the first photos I took with the macro lens, designed for closeups. This stalk of grass in the nature preserve had gone to seed and I wondered whether I could take a good picture of it, isolating the green stalk against the green background, and using depth of field to isolate just a few moments of sharpness. It turned out that I could. I’ve always been really happy with this photo.

August 2, 2009. Nikon D90 (DX sensor), 105mm Nikon macro lens (35mm equivalent: 155mm), f/4, 1/640, ISO 400.