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A simple diorama for Macro Monday's theme of April Fools Day silliness. A made up idea of, what would a tiny Sand Worm race look like?
So in honor of the vintage, Soviet era lenses used in the filming of Dune 2, I shot this image using a Helios 44-2, 58mm f2 @f16 with about 30mm of extension helicoids to shoot this macro. I used Siberian Iris seed pods as my sandworms. The pods are no more than 2.5 inches long.
The cinemaphotographer who shot this movie gave an interview recently where he explained that he only used vintage, rehoused, Soviet era lenses from Helios, Tair, Jupiter and Mir.
The inspiration for this silliness was shooting these dried out seed pods today and thinking that they looked like strange mouths opening up, and it hit me. I found what I was going to do for this Monday's theme. Up until that point, I wasn't going to do one for this week. I had no ideas, but sometimes you just need to go out and start shooting stuff.
My daughter, her boyfriend and my wife all helped me to make the riders.
📢Theme of the Month: April Fools🎨
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"If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings."
Welsh Proverb
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A delicious lunch...or...? Happy April Fools :)
Coles Little Shop:
John West canned tuna
Daily Juice Orange Juice
Nutella
Vegemite
Mini Fake Grocery Items - definitely not delicious and definitely a good April Fool Prank.
Tea bags.
[Just a warning: What follows here is a satirical piece for the Macro Mondays theme April Fools. The attempt at humour is based on the caricature of the insular English as a linguistically arrogant (and ignorant) and xenophobic people.
I'm very aware, though, that humour often doesn't travel well over water. Please be assured the thoughts expressed are not those of the management!]
The British are a nation of tea drinkers.
As you’d also expect from the world’s fifth largest economy we are not afraid to lead the world in embracing the modern. And a prime example is the tea bag.
The main advantage of this life-changing invention is that you can so easily hang them out on the line to dry, ready for the next use. Gone are the days of scraping out tea strainers and spreading the contents on trays to dry in the sun (or, more likely, to be blown away).
Thus we preserve our life line of infusions - the more important in these days of diminishing Empire, when confounded upstart democracies threaten our supply chain!
Tea drying by any method, of course, creates a problem when faced with our climate. Constant drizzle, cold grey fog, damp chill winds, or even deluging downpours are certainly not good for drying the little bags.
But British ingenuity, like so often in history, is not to be underestimated.
We have designed little drying racks to stand the tea bags before the kitchen fires, or even (in lower establishments) the living-room hearths.
The better British households also have wooden frames attached to pulleys which can hoist the desiccating bags up to the room ceilings where the drier and warmer air pools.
I have heard, reliably too, that some of the very modern hovels are obliged to forego fires and instead have a curious thing called central heating that involves warming water in radiators.
I’m surprised it works. I think it’s mainly the lower classes that have them because they can’t afford the servants to make the fires.
But even here British inventiveness knows no bounds - you can get little racks to hang on the radiators to dry your tea bags. I kid you not - I have seen them advertised on Amazon!
So tea remains the drink of choice of the landed classes. I am trying to avoid mentioning the vile craze at the moment amongst the peasantry for that roasted bean thingy from Ethiopia.
I am certain this will never catch on and is just a passing fad - we are far too sensible as a nation.
I mean whatever good came out of South America? Just think of the ghastly tango!! Not to say anything about the slumba, rambo, and sizla or whatever they are: those corrupt orgiastic gyrations promoted as exercise by dodgy gyms. Proof, if any were needed, that exercise was a Bad Thing.
Ahah! The would-be geographer of the family has mentioned that Ethiopia isn’t in South America.
It matters not to the cut and thrust of my argument. My firm riposte was that as there are only two languages in the world, English and Foreign, that it is fair to conclude there are only two countries worthy of mention: Britain and Foreign. That Foreign is spread across several continents is immaterial to the point.
And, in any case, most areas of Foreign (all the good bits anyway) have been successfully invaded by our colonists. So that’s all well and good (as long as they pay their tea tax of course).
Sorry. I shouldn’t let it get me so wound up.
I am meandering off-piste. (Don’t you just love the way the British integrate so well with the world! The way they graciously include words of Foreign in the mother tongue… especially when they don’t really understand them (and, no, I’m not going to ask what off-piste really means in this forum).
This is an image of my tea bags.
I am, I admit, a particularly sophisticated tea drinker, having different types of tea to suit the changing hours of the day.
For Breakfast I have… er… English Breakfast (OK, so perhaps I’m not that sophisticated...), a strong tasty tea with plenty of backbone to get me going in the morning.
At Lunchtime I have a more refined, delicate tea: Earl Grey, a blend of light Indian teas and the rind from the bitter bergamot orange. This acts as a pick me up and keeps me going (mainly to the loo, it has to be said, though that may be a detail too far for this family-friendly group...).
Then at Teatime a bit of refinement with pure Ceylon: a delectable flavoursome tea with a beautiful orange colour. Delicious! (And more going...)
I label the pegs so I know which bag is which and prevent disasterous confusion of the types. The different colours help further in the dim light of dawn...
And if my viewer thought BLT stood for the ingredients of a sandwich, I am afraid you are a little behind the times. The cognoscenti (which I think means the finely perfumed classes) now have Sbam sandwiches (Streaky Bacon, mashed Avocado and Mayonnaise). Even the riff-raff of British society have always loved sbam sandwiches…
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image (though if you do it is probably a reasonable cause for concern…). Happy Macro Mondays :)
[Handheld in daylight (not the teabags, obviously). Brutally cropped to the size requirements of the group. I mean you wanted to see more, right? :) ]
My spaghetti-tree is flowering.
For anyone who doesn't know of the original BBC's April Fool's Day joke about spaghetti here is the Wikipedia link to the story:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax
The spaghetti is approximately 4x4 cm.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
My jockey alt's April Fool's Day - Easter kitty. He's adorable and with such a sweet face. And I love that he has the Tin Man body from the 2014 RFL kitty.
J'ai trouvé cette belle grappe de raisins sucrés et sans graine dans un marché et quelle a été ma surprise de voir un fruit pas comme les autres, plus gros et d'une autre couleur. #Macro #AprilFools #MacroMondays
fly : ?
caterpillar : Lepidoptera / Noctuidae / Acronicta rumicis
bumblebee : Hymenoptera / Apidae / Bombus
bugs : Coleoptera / Chrysomelidae & Cetoniidae
composite : 5 pictures (1 for each insect)
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Bees Trained to Collect Gold Dust
In the Upper Congo past gold mining's legacy left a moonscape of large and small open pits. Some of these pits date to the turn of the previous century. These historical gold ore extractions were notably inefficient leaving behind small, but significant, amounts of gold dust hidden amidst vast acreages of mining spoil.
Enter the trained bees.
The Native Bee Laboratory, in a unique public / private partnership with the Gold Consortium, has trained bees to detect and retrieve the globular gold dust found in these former mines. As can be seen in this picture of a typical Golden Bee nest, these animals can be extremely effective little "gold diggers".
Future plans call for programming these bees to not only gather gold, but to perform the actual transmutation of in situ cupprous outcroppings into gold or near gold. Such opportunities, where no opportunities previously existed, allow micro-fabrication and bio-diversification within such small spaces that individual agents (e.g., paleofarmers and septuagenarians) could reap the rewards that opportunity vacuums were formerly devoid of.
BeeNews Release Date: April 1, 2017
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LEGO Star Wars 75320 Porg Battle Pack
136 pieces
USA $14.99 / DE 14.99 / UK £12.99
Available to pre-order from May the Fourth (VIP early access only)
Build up your army of adorable avians to conquer the galaxy and enact vengeance on a certain hungry Wookiee!
Includes stud-shooting blasters for the fearsome and wholesome Porgs as well as the iconic Force Tree from the planet Ahch-To.
APRIL FOOLS!
Not having enough time is a problem for the majority of people. Most of the time, it is just a difficult task to find a balance point between work and leisure. Too many things to do around my house and with my friends but so little time for me spare. However, never too busy to run to the flower shop.
Saucer in boiling water, for #MacroMondays #AprilFools (Visible width of subject approximately 5.75 cm / 2.25 in, taken a smidge or three under 1:1.5 magnification.)
Des Graines de Pastèque se sont mises en groupe pour former un Poisson afin de suivre leur chef en blanc jusqu'au 1er Avril. On peut dire que c'est un Poisson d'Avril avant l'heure. Une blague quoi, a joke! #Macro #AprilFools #MacroMondays
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[ENG] I do not know if it is a pig that has eaten many bananas, or a banana that has eaten many pigs. Funny April Fools Day!.
For "Macro Mondays" group, "April Fools" theme
[ESP] No sé si es un cerdo que ha comido muchos plátanos, o un plátano que ha comido muchos cerdos. ¡Feliz día de los Inocentes!.
Para el grupo "Macro Mondays", tema "Día de los Inocentes"
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Apr 1 2014
My Big Announcement
I told everyone on Facebook that I have a big announcement. Here it is.
For WH: April Fools
So this week for Macro Mondays theme 'April Fools' we've been tasked with photographing something goofy, silly, funny or humorously arranged like funny-faced bugs, fruit or veggies, silly little toys, or objects arranged to make a joke or pun.
Ladies & gentlemen, I give you:
The Peatles. 😐
LEGO Star Wars 75320 Porg Battle Pack
136 pieces
USA $14.99 / DE 14.99 / UK £12.99
Available to pre-order from May the Fourth (VIP early access only)
Build up your army of adorable avians to conquer the galaxy and enact vengeance on a certain hungry Wookiee!
Includes stud-shooting blasters for the fearsome and wholesome Porgs as well as the iconic Force Tree from the planet Ahch-To.
APRIL FOOLS!
Je propose pour ce 1er Avril une Mandarine givrée tout droit sortie du congélateur convertie en Fool's Burger avec du Peperoni Salami, du Gingembre, de la Salade, agrémentée d'une Moutarde au miel, #Macro #AprilFools #MacroMondays
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Happy April Fools!
Inspired by Flipmode79 :)
We were hit by almost a foot of fresh snow.
Oh well that's Vermont for ya.
(update 4/2/07)
APRIL FOOL !!!
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📢Theme of the Month: April Fools🎨
you can pinch n punch as much as you want on April 1st, but the rabbits say with out an increase in carrots they simple wont be there to finish your sentence!
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'pinch and punch on the first of the month'. "White rabbits, no return".
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