The Lovin': Spoonful
Macro Monday: #ASpoonful ...
... of love. Why love? Because nonpareils are mostly referred to as "Liebesperlen" in German: "love beads". Legend has it that the first "love beads", nonpareils or "hundreds and thousands" were created by German confectionery manufacturer Rudolf Hoinkis in 1908. Allegedly the name "love beads" was made up by Hoinkis' wife. He came back home from his candy factory one day and brought along his new sugary invention for which he still did not have a name, showed them to his wife and son, and said: "I love you as much as these sugar beads." Whereupon Hoinkis' wife suggested to call them "love beads".
Rudolf Hoinkis' candy factory, which he founded in 1896 in Görlitz, still exists and is now owned by his grandson: www.hoinkis.de/en/home.html
This is a very straightforward focus stack taken in all natural daylight today. The spoon is actually a measuring spoon for tea (a so-called "Teelamaß" by German tea merchant TeeGschwendner), and what you see is pretty much what is left of it. These special measuring spoons come with a very long, fairly thin handle, and the handle of the plastic version which you get for free when you buy tea at one of their shops easily breaks (better buy the metal version!). Which is what happened here (I'm still using it, though), leaving me with a perfectly MM-sized spoon ;-) The diameter of the spoon's bowl is 3,2 cm / 1,25 inches, the entire frame is exactly 7,5 cm / 3 inches. The background is a bamboo cutting board. Processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2019 only this time: I tweaked the whites a little, enhanced the structure, added a subtle sunlight filter for more warmth, and the HDR filter "surreal" (and have I mentioned before that I love that HDR filter?). I also made another Yin and Yang (with tumeric and paprika powder in a Twinnings tea measuring spoon), but didn't want to bore you with the third MM yin & yang ;-)
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Ein Löffel voll Liebe :-)
Dass die winzigen Zuckerkügelchen, die in anderen Ländern als "Nonpareilles", als "Unvergleichliche", bekannt sind, bei uns überwiegend unter "Liebesperlen" laufen, wisst Ihr ja. Aber kanntet Ihr auch die Hintergrundgeschichte dazu? Die geht so: Der Görlitzer Süßwarenfabrikant Rudolf Hoinkis erfand im Jahre 1908 diese zuckrigen Miniaturkügelchen, es wollte ihm aber kein Name dafür einfallen. Er brachte also welche davon nach Hause mit und stellte sie seiner Frau und seinem Sohn der Legende nach mit den Worten "Ich liebe Euch so sehr wie diese Zuckerperlen" vor. Woraufhin Hoinkis Frau vorschlug, das Naschzeug "Liebesperlen" zu nennen. Die 1896 gegründete Hoinkis'sche Süßwarenfabrik besteht übrigens noch und wird in dritter Generation von Rudolf Hoinkis Enkel geleitet: www.hoinkis.de/de/startseite.html
Ich hatte auch noch ein Yin&Yang aus Kurkuma- und Paprikapulver in einem Twinnings-Teelöffel gemacht, aber das wäre dann das dritte MM-Yin&Yang gewesen, daher habe ich mich für die farbenfrohen Liebesperlen entschieden :-)
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
The Lovin': Spoonful
Macro Monday: #ASpoonful ...
... of love. Why love? Because nonpareils are mostly referred to as "Liebesperlen" in German: "love beads". Legend has it that the first "love beads", nonpareils or "hundreds and thousands" were created by German confectionery manufacturer Rudolf Hoinkis in 1908. Allegedly the name "love beads" was made up by Hoinkis' wife. He came back home from his candy factory one day and brought along his new sugary invention for which he still did not have a name, showed them to his wife and son, and said: "I love you as much as these sugar beads." Whereupon Hoinkis' wife suggested to call them "love beads".
Rudolf Hoinkis' candy factory, which he founded in 1896 in Görlitz, still exists and is now owned by his grandson: www.hoinkis.de/en/home.html
This is a very straightforward focus stack taken in all natural daylight today. The spoon is actually a measuring spoon for tea (a so-called "Teelamaß" by German tea merchant TeeGschwendner), and what you see is pretty much what is left of it. These special measuring spoons come with a very long, fairly thin handle, and the handle of the plastic version which you get for free when you buy tea at one of their shops easily breaks (better buy the metal version!). Which is what happened here (I'm still using it, though), leaving me with a perfectly MM-sized spoon ;-) The diameter of the spoon's bowl is 3,2 cm / 1,25 inches, the entire frame is exactly 7,5 cm / 3 inches. The background is a bamboo cutting board. Processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2019 only this time: I tweaked the whites a little, enhanced the structure, added a subtle sunlight filter for more warmth, and the HDR filter "surreal" (and have I mentioned before that I love that HDR filter?). I also made another Yin and Yang (with tumeric and paprika powder in a Twinnings tea measuring spoon), but didn't want to bore you with the third MM yin & yang ;-)
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Ein Löffel voll Liebe :-)
Dass die winzigen Zuckerkügelchen, die in anderen Ländern als "Nonpareilles", als "Unvergleichliche", bekannt sind, bei uns überwiegend unter "Liebesperlen" laufen, wisst Ihr ja. Aber kanntet Ihr auch die Hintergrundgeschichte dazu? Die geht so: Der Görlitzer Süßwarenfabrikant Rudolf Hoinkis erfand im Jahre 1908 diese zuckrigen Miniaturkügelchen, es wollte ihm aber kein Name dafür einfallen. Er brachte also welche davon nach Hause mit und stellte sie seiner Frau und seinem Sohn der Legende nach mit den Worten "Ich liebe Euch so sehr wie diese Zuckerperlen" vor. Woraufhin Hoinkis Frau vorschlug, das Naschzeug "Liebesperlen" zu nennen. Die 1896 gegründete Hoinkis'sche Süßwarenfabrik besteht übrigens noch und wird in dritter Generation von Rudolf Hoinkis Enkel geleitet: www.hoinkis.de/de/startseite.html
Ich hatte auch noch ein Yin&Yang aus Kurkuma- und Paprikapulver in einem Twinnings-Teelöffel gemacht, aber das wäre dann das dritte MM-Yin&Yang gewesen, daher habe ich mich für die farbenfrohen Liebesperlen entschieden :-)
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!