Medusing
Macro Monday: #Pasta
This is a specimen of the very rare midget jellyfish, the Conchiferia Bifunia. Its corrugated, shell-shaped body has a maximum width of 4 cm / 1,57 inches, and a height of 1,5 cm / 0,59 inches, its total height with tentacles varies between 4,5 cm / 1,77 inches and 6 cm / 2,36 inches (outstreched). It is found all around the world in light sauce habitats, preferably tomato, soy, or coconut milk based. The Conchiferia Bifunia subsists mostly on spices, herbs and vegetables.
Jellyfish made of Italian Conchiglie Rigate and Thai Bifun rice noodles. Unfortunately, I spent half of Sunday yesterday with trying to get it right with the "wrong" type of pasta (Trottole; and, of course, there is no "wrong" type of pasta) as jellyfish "body", instead of going for the Conchiglie, which had been my first choice, right away, so the photo, taken late last night, didn't turn out as sharp as I had hoped it would, because I ran out of time, but it's still OK, I think. The Bifun noodles are very long, so I broke off short pieces, and stuck them to the inside of the Conchiglie with modeling clay. To make the jellyfish hover underwater, I had drilled a small hole through the top of its "body" with a gimlet, then pulled a thread of sewing yarn through it (glued to the inside with modeling clay as well; later I removed / retouched the thread with the healing brush in PS), attached the whole thing to a small wooden skewer, and hung it over the rim of a large, bulbous Brandy balloon filled with water which I'd tinted blue with food colouring. I used uncooked pasta, because especially the super thin Bifun noodles softened in no time by just being exposed to water and then immediately lost their twisted shapes which simulated (moving) tentacles so nicely, and just dangled about rather unattractively instead. Processed in Luminar 3 (small and large details, HSL), ON1 Photo Raw, and Analog Efex Pro (vignette).
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a pleasant week ahead, dear Flickr friends!
Liebe Flickr-Freunde, da ich heute leider mal wieder wenig Zeit habe, würde ich Euch bitten, Euch den englischen Text, falls gewünscht / erforderlich, von DeepL oder einem anderen Programm übersetzen zu lassen. Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne erste Herbstwoche :-)
Medusing
Macro Monday: #Pasta
This is a specimen of the very rare midget jellyfish, the Conchiferia Bifunia. Its corrugated, shell-shaped body has a maximum width of 4 cm / 1,57 inches, and a height of 1,5 cm / 0,59 inches, its total height with tentacles varies between 4,5 cm / 1,77 inches and 6 cm / 2,36 inches (outstreched). It is found all around the world in light sauce habitats, preferably tomato, soy, or coconut milk based. The Conchiferia Bifunia subsists mostly on spices, herbs and vegetables.
Jellyfish made of Italian Conchiglie Rigate and Thai Bifun rice noodles. Unfortunately, I spent half of Sunday yesterday with trying to get it right with the "wrong" type of pasta (Trottole; and, of course, there is no "wrong" type of pasta) as jellyfish "body", instead of going for the Conchiglie, which had been my first choice, right away, so the photo, taken late last night, didn't turn out as sharp as I had hoped it would, because I ran out of time, but it's still OK, I think. The Bifun noodles are very long, so I broke off short pieces, and stuck them to the inside of the Conchiglie with modeling clay. To make the jellyfish hover underwater, I had drilled a small hole through the top of its "body" with a gimlet, then pulled a thread of sewing yarn through it (glued to the inside with modeling clay as well; later I removed / retouched the thread with the healing brush in PS), attached the whole thing to a small wooden skewer, and hung it over the rim of a large, bulbous Brandy balloon filled with water which I'd tinted blue with food colouring. I used uncooked pasta, because especially the super thin Bifun noodles softened in no time by just being exposed to water and then immediately lost their twisted shapes which simulated (moving) tentacles so nicely, and just dangled about rather unattractively instead. Processed in Luminar 3 (small and large details, HSL), ON1 Photo Raw, and Analog Efex Pro (vignette).
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a pleasant week ahead, dear Flickr friends!
Liebe Flickr-Freunde, da ich heute leider mal wieder wenig Zeit habe, würde ich Euch bitten, Euch den englischen Text, falls gewünscht / erforderlich, von DeepL oder einem anderen Programm übersetzen zu lassen. Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne erste Herbstwoche :-)