Bubbles

There was a nice heavy dew this morning and unfortunately, no freshly emerged dragonflies were available for photography.  I found this spittlebug froth on a dogwood stem with a dew drop. I was using some fill flash which produced the highlights, but are not overpowering.  For processing, I cropped slightly for composition, removed some noise with Neat Image, ran some luminosity masks on midtones, bright lights, and darks, and finished it off by adding a little brightness and contrast. K5 IIs 180mm f3.5 (1/400 sec at f8.0, ISO 1600) -.67ev, fill flash -1ev................................Jim