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Male of Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina.
Technique: It was a cool day (18C) with partly cloudy skies and intermittent light showers -perfect weather to go looking for solitary bees since they'll have a tough time keeping their metabolism up. I got lucky and found this Mason bee semi-dormant in my Lavender.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black. I n post I used Topaz Labs Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Clarity.
Before I found a tiny wildflower in my yard to shoot for the Macro Mondays challenge - I thought I would have to make do with an artificial flower. This is what I had ready - but thankfully I didn't have to use it. The whole time I was photographing this image - the song "Artificial Flowers" sung by Bobby Darrin kept running through my mind - and is still running through my mind at this very moment. Help - I think it is stuck in there forever. *LOL
Male of Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina.
Technique: It was a cool day (18C) with partly cloudy skies and intermittent light showers -perfect weather to go looking for solitary bees since they'll have a tough time keeping their metabolism up. I got lucky and found this Mason bee semi-dormant in my Lavender.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 2x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
My wife collects recipes from friends and relatives. Each is recorded on an index card. The card is then propped up in this simple device so it can be more easily read. Our Daughter made this as a Mother’s Day gift while in first or second grade. It’s a cap from an aerosol can half filled with Play Dough having some artificial flowers and ribbon arranged around the plastic fork embedded in the Play Dough. The fork has been replaced more than once and the ribbon and flowers are faded and ragged but the thing is as useful as it ever was. Thank you for any views, likes and comments. HMM!! See the fork in context here
I found a feeding Chafer Beetle that was more hungry than afraid.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (over 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
I went out to my sister in law's place in the mountains above Itri, Italy at 5:30AM to photograph the Bumblebees in her Lavender. There were several that were already awake and foraging in the 17C (62F) temperature. This one has latched onto a Lavender flower.
Bombus hortorum
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F14, 1/160, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to over 3x) + a diffused MT26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI and Clarity in that order. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
May Flower...
"She made artificial flowers
Artificial flowers
Flowers for ladies of fashion to wear.
She made artificial flowers
Ya know ... those artificial flowers
Fashioned from Daphne's despair."
Water droplets about to join the numerous others before them on the floor as I tried to get a picture.
Close-up on artificial flowers in a cemetery
Gros plan sur des fleurs artificielles dans un cimetière.
Fomapan200 200iso Rodinal 1+50 10'
Camera: Leica M Monochrom
Lens: SUMMILUX-M 1:1.4/50 ASPH. E46 4203500
Filter: 46S R1 Professional
Retouch: Lightroom 6.6
I hardly have artificial flowers, but this is the only favourite.
Ai Nikkor 50mm f1.4 with Panasonic DMC-G2
November 26th, 2013
TOkyo, Japan
Come Thirsty - Max Lucado Don’t deny your anger. Don’t dismiss your loneliness. Your restless spirit, your sense of dread. Don’t let your heart shrink into a raisin. Hydrate your soul. Heed that thirst!
Not everything you put to your lips will help your thirst. The arms of forbidden love may satisfy for a time, but only for a time. Eighty-hour workweeks grant a sense of fulfillment, but they never remove the thirst. Religion pacifies but never satisfies. Church activities may hide a thirst, but only Christ quenches it. Drink him, and drink him often.
Don’t you need regular sips from God’s reservoir? I do. I step to the underground spring of God and receive anew his work for my sin and death, the energy of his Spirit, his lordship, and his love. His unending, unfailing love. Drink deeply—and drink often!
Come Thirsty. Max Lucado
Technique: Sometimes when I bait a subject they get the sweet stuff all over, and that's what's happened here. I'm holding on to the Lavender stem that the bee is perched on with my left hand, and resting the lens on that same hanf to help keep the scene steady. I also used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 200 with highlight tone priority) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 4x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering with -1 2/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Discovered this rather colourful art-monument in Lyon. It's the “Flower Tree” bouquet created by the Korean artist Jeong Hwa Choi and was exhibited on Place Antonin Poncet during Lyon's contemporary art biennial in 2003.
Rose.
This flower is part of an arrangement we gave my wife’s mother for her 90th birthday. We subsequently inherited it.
I used to be rather prejudiced against artificial flowers but these days I’m not so sure. The modern quality is really very sophisticated, and in the case of these ones gave a lovely old lady a lot of pleasure without the fear of failing to care for them.
Which kind of prompted the question in my mind as to whether it was right to mimic the beauty of creation. Now that was an interesting exercise!
The problem I quickly realised was that you could say we do it all the time anyway. And ironically photographers can be seen as some of the worst offenders.
It reminded me of a related question: is a picture (image) of art, art? And if it isn’t, is a picture of a flower (or sunset) art or is the art in the flower (or sunset)? And is a picture of a flower not just mimicking the flower? Answers, please, on a postage stamp...
All too much for a Monday night. But delicious fun too! (At least I am totally safe as nobody ever reads this, lol. ;) ).
For the Macro Mondays group theme Fake today. The image is about 1.5 inches across I guess.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Macro Mondays :)
[Handheld in soft directional daylight.
Developed in Photolab 2. My object was to create a smooth dreamy look which hid the artificialness of the flower but still left a reasonable clue to its artificiality. I also wanted to process in a way that perhaps I would for a real rose .
Reduced micro-contrast to smooth things. Balanced the exposure, hue and vibrancy to give a rosey look with pleasant tone and colour contrasts.
Processed in Affinity Photo. Flipped horizontally to create a flow out of the picture so the eye didn’t dwell too much.
In Nik Color Efex 2 added Classic Soft Focus and Glamour Glow to taste.
Back in Photo retouched some stray threads, and then (counter-intuitively after all the softening and glowing) sharpened with Clarity, Unsharp Mask (masked selectively) and High Pass/ Linear blend mode.
Very soft dark vignette, and we’re done.]
I see artificial flowers well in the night town of Tokyo. Because it is more gorgeous than a daytime impression, I may take it for a genuine flower.
On May 29, 2013 on the bypath of memory, Shinjuku.
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東京の夜の街では造花をよく見かけます。 昼間と違った印象なので、本物の花と見間違えたりすることがあります。
2013年5月29日、新宿思い出の抜け道にて。
Street portrait of a man with an artificial flower decorated black hat. The photo was taken during the street carnival 2018 in the Dutch city of Breda, Noord-Brabant.
Straatportret van een man met een bloemen versierde zwarte hoed tijdens carnaval 2018 op de Grote Markt in Breda.
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A candid street portrait of a beautiful young lady who wears a wreath made of artificial flowers, eats an ice-cream and watching some street performance with keen interest.
Recently received this new beautiful glass vase as a gift, with a very delicate single flower in it. Alas, the gift flower did not survive long... but artificial flowers are forever.
if you want your house to become floral but lack the green thumb or time, you can always opt for artificial flowers
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I spent time in Buenos Aires wandering around La Recoleta Cemetery. It was a super hot day with bright blue sky, so I was happy to be wandering in the semi-shade offered by the large stone graves in this cemetery, and to be able to focus on some of the detail that was on offer, rather than attempting to take regular city shots with harsh light.
This place was a little creepy, in that you could look into the tombs and see the coffins that were in there, which is a bit odd when some of them are obviously meant for children.
Some of the chambers were in quite good condition, others run down, full of broken items and cobwebs. The artificial flower on this one, alongside the webs, made it pretty clear that nobody has visited here for some time.
The main attraction in La Recoleta is the grave of Eva Perón, which you can easily find while walking up and down the main stretch by simply looking left to right until you spot a group of people taking photos.
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