Pictures

Kerns Perfect Leo Shrimp outdoors

Lamps

Close-up

$In the mouth - It\'s not the best way to present the anatomy of a fly, but a good way of illustrating that it works$

In the mouth

Shot for size

In the sun

Klympen on black

Klympen on blue

Klympen on Mulder and Sculley

Klympen on X

$La Muerte - This fly was shot on a whim while we were drinking rum on the porch in Mexico after fishing a day. It formed the base for <a href=\"/patterns/la_muerte_tarpon_fly/\">an article on the fly</a>$

La Muerte

The bedroller light box

Lying down

Macro lenses

$A Q&D studio - Quick and Dirty, set up next to my computer in a very confined space. One small softbox as a backlight and the Orbis ringflash as a main light, both controlled by the camera\'s built-in pop-up flash$

A Q&D studio

A Q&D studio - alternate setup

A Q&D result

Makeshift tabletop setup

Wood block and snooted flash

Very rough setup

Materials

In the garden

$Arranged - These two Mickey Finns were literally stuck into the Mickey Finn entry in Perrault\'s Standard Dictionary of Fishing Flies$

Arranged

Moyerfokker on a hard drive

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The GFF money box

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