Leaf Skeleton

Whilst digging in the garden over the last few days I have come across quite a few of these decomposing holly leaves.

I brought one inside this morning to have play with it!! This is photographed with a black card behind and a speedlight off to the left. The light really picks out the remains of the leaf. The prickly spines are still quite sharp!

I focus stacked this - six images, manually focussing (by touching the screen) between each one. I couldn’t use the ‘auto focus stack feature’ as the flash will not recharge quickly enough between shots!!

Added another extra today - our one remaining baby blackbird….it seems to be feeding quite independently now but Dad was keeping close by and occasionally topping it up!!