Army of Me
#macromondays
#redux2021
I should have chosen these small plastic bottles which contain an inhalant, and which I'd also considered for the Bottle(s) theme, right away. It would have spared me many hours yesterday and today photographing this and that, and today I'd actually committed myself to shoot a translucent fluorite with the extension tubes, because fluorites consist of such nicely cubic, all natural Geometry Shapes, but the dust, oh, the dust and lint. And mind you, I'd carefully cleaned it before the shooting. So in the end I must have met my very own army ("And if you complain once more, you'll meet an Army of Me"), because I decided that I'd take one last shot, and quit if I don't like it, and this is that very last shot. The inhalant bottles (which once were made of glass, beautiful, tiny glass vials, and nowadays: all plastic), when you take them out of the box, look like a cartridge belt, because they come kind of glued together in a row and one has to break off bottle after bottle. This and their fairly grim appearance (they look a little like a mixture of Daleks and Stormtroopers to me) made me think of Björk's 1995 song.
Sidelit from the right with one LED lamp, shone half through the blue tealight holder, and a handheld led flashlight. I'd also placed the red chocolates box lid next to the bottles to add some extra colour. Processed in DXO PhotoLab 5 and Color Efex (Tonal Contrast filter). Size info: Each of those helmet-shaped bottle caps are 1 cm / 0,39 inches wide.
A big Thank You to the MM moderators for another exciting year of macro challenges :) HMM, Everyone, stay safe and healthy, and take care!
Army of Me
#macromondays
#redux2021
I should have chosen these small plastic bottles which contain an inhalant, and which I'd also considered for the Bottle(s) theme, right away. It would have spared me many hours yesterday and today photographing this and that, and today I'd actually committed myself to shoot a translucent fluorite with the extension tubes, because fluorites consist of such nicely cubic, all natural Geometry Shapes, but the dust, oh, the dust and lint. And mind you, I'd carefully cleaned it before the shooting. So in the end I must have met my very own army ("And if you complain once more, you'll meet an Army of Me"), because I decided that I'd take one last shot, and quit if I don't like it, and this is that very last shot. The inhalant bottles (which once were made of glass, beautiful, tiny glass vials, and nowadays: all plastic), when you take them out of the box, look like a cartridge belt, because they come kind of glued together in a row and one has to break off bottle after bottle. This and their fairly grim appearance (they look a little like a mixture of Daleks and Stormtroopers to me) made me think of Björk's 1995 song.
Sidelit from the right with one LED lamp, shone half through the blue tealight holder, and a handheld led flashlight. I'd also placed the red chocolates box lid next to the bottles to add some extra colour. Processed in DXO PhotoLab 5 and Color Efex (Tonal Contrast filter). Size info: Each of those helmet-shaped bottle caps are 1 cm / 0,39 inches wide.
A big Thank You to the MM moderators for another exciting year of macro challenges :) HMM, Everyone, stay safe and healthy, and take care!