Normally I use the redeye tool in Photoshop Elements 3 to fix redeye problems. Unfortunately it didn’t work this time. I’ve tried a number of different plugins but without any success.

Here is a crop before redeye removal.

Here is a crop using the Photoshop redeye tool.

(Yes, I know it’s out of focus. I cropped out the main subject for this post.)

This Christmas, Martinah gave me a new camera. So I am in the process of preparing to sell my old camera. One of the lenses I had for my old camera was the Olympus mcon-35 macro lens. Since it had the same thread as my Nikon 85mm f/1.8, I decided to give it a try. This is the result after playing with it for a few minutes.

I was playing with my new tcon-14b teleconverter for my camera and liked the colors.

Just fooling around with Photoshop.

This guy developed the coolest contraption for capturing pictures of insects in flight. Just reading through the site made my brain hurt. Wow.

• Photographing Flying Insects