Took a trip down into Oregon this past weekend.  The wheat fields inspired me to finally start shooting again. 

Since I forgot to bring my own camera, I had to use Shannon's point & shoot deal to take these.  Using unfamiliar cameras to do macro shots always makes me nervous; the displays on them make it seem like your shots are in focus but once you pull them off the camera and look at them on a monitor, they can sometimes be blurry.

I'd have liked to had manual focus while taking the Lady Bug shot.  Her camera had a very, very hard time figuring out what to focus on.  This makes sense because the auto focus on the camera is trying to find high contrast edges in a scene and then adjusting the lens to make them as sharp as possible.  Since it is all wheat and the lines are all mixed up, the camera gets confused as to what should be focused on.  Her camera had the "magic" mode as well as a centered focus mode.  Neither could figure out what I was trying to do.  I think I got the shot below by shear luck (and I'll admit to cropping it... the original was landscape, not portrait).

The only modification to these are a slight warming filter in Photoshop.

Anyway... on with the show:

Wheat, More Wheat, Yet More Wheat, and oh yeah, a Lady Bug too.