Thanks, I have a 105mm lens as well and it looked similar, though yours is sharper in more areas than my typically comes out so I assumed some kind of stacking involved. Cool shot. How many did you take that didn't turn out? I like to do without a tripod in most situations and the 105 can be unwieldy to handhold.
Oh I take countless shots that don't turn out, although it definitely improves with practice. My 105 has image stabilization so that does help too. Once you get one shot that turned out nice, you forget all about the 10 others that didn't! The 105 is only slightly bigger than the 35mm 1.4, so on a decent sized APS-C body, it doesn't seem too unwieldly, at least for me. I just find that 105 is slightly on the long side, at that focal length coffee-hands definitely work against you big time.
I do have a tripod, but I found that for macro it really just gets in the way. I have a monopod arriving some time over the next few days, I can't wait to try that one out.
A few from the other day:
The last two are target practice for basically just panning the camera during the exposure as you follow a moving subject to blur the background with motion. I remember learning about this a long time ago but it's really hard and I just figured i'm not good at moving subjects lol, but I had the random urge to try it again recently and was pleased with a couple of them!