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Black & White Magazine People's Choice Award

I was very pleased to learn that my image "Cactus Spines" won the "People's Choice Award" in the Flowers/Plants/Fruit category of Black & White Magazine's 2018 Single Image Contest (Issue 125).

The photo is a focus stack of approximately 30 or so images, each focused a mm apart (using a focusing rail) in order to maintain sharpness throughout the entire length of the spines. Without doing this type of compositing, it would be impossible to keep the spines sharply focused from tip to base, even using a small aperture for maximum depth of field.

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