Dandelion Puff

I bought a set of diopter filters (aka the poor photographer's macro) on Craigslist today and went out to have some fun. The thing with diopters, as opposed to real macro lenses, is that they create extremely shallow depth of field, that is a very small front-to-back distance within which things stay in focus. This poses both technical and artistic challenges and one has to be very patient and creative in selecting those elements of the image that will be in focus and those that will not.