Tom’s World – 29NOV2025 – Boat Show

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WARNING: Never launch your wife’s Escalade without first inserting the drain plug.

Actually, that is his wife’s Escalade he’s standing on to keep other boats from running into while docking.

BTW- That’s salt water, no chance of renovating that.

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So long and thanks for all the fish.

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My brother in the foreground and Pensacola Beach about 10 miles to the north.We were apparently bottom fishing on top of one of the 100’s of wrecks and reefs scattered everywhere in this part of the Gulf.

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Longhorn Beetle Macro Focus Stack

So you take the Sony A7IV camera with the latest firmware update and you attach the Sony 90mm f/2.8 Macro G Lens and set the camera for focus bracketing using the small interval focus change and a hundred exposures with an f/8 aperture and ISO 100 quality and you get 100 files that look this bad:

Then you put the 100 files through a photo editor to get the exposure just right and process them in another piece of software that combines them into a focus stack and get this:

And if you crop that stack photo you’ll find quite a lot of detail:

Admittedly, this isn’t the loveliest insect photo on record but you have to admit it has a lot of detail.