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for Macro Mondays: celebration
Christmas mincemeat
1 medium cooking apple, peeled, cored, chopped small * 4oz brown sugar * 8oz veg suet
8oz sultanas * 8oz raisins * 8oz currants * 4oz mixed peel
zest & juice of 1 lemon * 3 tablespoons sherry or brandy
Put all into a large bowl, mix well, cover with clingfilm, leave to stand a few days, stirring each day, spoon into jars.
I usually give most jars away visiting friends before Christmas but this year we will eat it all ourselves.....
Macro Mondays theme Flexibles
Strawberry in Cling Flim. Cling Flim is my choice of Flexibles for today. I checked with admin that it was acceptable for the theme, as it seemed that I may have gone off on a tangent 😊
HMM! 😄
Leipzig Is Calling - Thomas Dolby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnK4P-JI6hc
Thirty nine and you need some leeway
Soon you're eyeing the overseas page
The trains are running late
As you close the garden gate
Stepping through your steel front door frame
"Dinner's in the microwave, sweetie!"
Leipzig is calling you Henry
Leipzig is calling you Jane
Leipzig is calling you Leonard
Leipzig is calling you names
Cars were burning on yellow lines
Wheels turning, traffic lights changing
Another misty bus - queue morning
Faces smile down from the hoarding
You stoop to the bin - drop something in..
Well, you'll soon feel yourself again
And every place is just the same, isn't it?
Leipzig is calling you Henry
Leipzig is calling you Jane
Leipzig is calling you Leonard
Leipzig is calling you names
Like the sound of taxi brakes
The sound of a dentist's drill
The colour of skates on ice
Under clingfilm
It's calling
Leipzig is calling you names
Hear it calling
The festive season is quite a low-key affair in our family but I always make this recipe in the autumn. Those 'pre-loved' jars of delicious French jam come in handy.
Mincemeat
Put into a large bowl, stirring well after each ingredient:
8 ozs vegetable suet
8 ozs currants
8 ozs sultanas, roughly chopped
8 ozs raisins roughly chopped
4 ozs mixed peel
3 ozs brown sugar
zest and juice of a lemon
2 tablespoons brandy or sherry
1 cooking apple, peeled, cored, chopped finely
Mix well together and leave a few days in the bowl, covered with clingfilm, stirring each day.
Pot into jam jars, cover with greaseproof paper and a screw top.
This recipe makes about 6 jars. I store mine in the fridge. Nice in apple and mincemeat crumble, as well as in mince pies.
Planet Clingon? Yes, that's right. Because, as has been recently discovered, there's a sister species of the Klingons. I assume the differences between the Klingons and the Clingons are pretty similar to those between the Vulcans and the Romulans. This means that the Clingons are peaceful, polite, kind, and generally super nice, extremely relaxed people. What you see is a solar storm rising behind their home world. Solar "storm" in the Clingon solar system means a warm, gentle, slightly fuzzy breeze because, well, everything in the Clingon world is a little fuzzy. A favourite chill-out activity of theirs is smoking "pod", a very healthy and nutritious plant that, as a most welcome side effect, gives you sunny, bright (and somewhat fuzzy) vibes. Peace, folks!
Late in the game with this "lucky last shot". Nothing I'd tried before had worked out. With almost every MM theme, I try to make my subject look "different" so you won't recognize at once what it is. But when this is exactly the task, I go "What? How do I do that? And what could I possibly photograph?!?" As usual :) This is a single shot of a cling foil/film roll, taken with the Laowa 50mm Ultra 2x macro at a magnification somewhere between 1.5:1 and 1.25:1. Processed in DXO PL7, Analog and Color Efex Pro.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
#3:206 - the funny bone
Metaphorazine
by Jeff Noon
from a book of amazing short stories and viral prose named Pixel Juice
Johnny takes Metaphorazine. Every clockwork day. Says it burns his house down, with a haircut made of wings. You could say he eats a problem. You could say he stokes his thrill. Every clingfilm evening, climb inside a little pill. Intoxicate the feelings. Play those skull-piano blues. Johnny takes Metaphorazine.
He's a dog.
Lucy takes Simileum. That's not half as bad. She's only like a moon gone slithering, upside-down the sky. Like a tidal wave of perfume, like a spillage in the heart. With eyes stuck tight like envelopes, and posted like a teardrop. Like a syringe, of teardrops. Like a dripfeed aphrodisiac, swallowed like a Cadillac. Lucy takes Simileum.
She's like a dog.
Graham takes Litotezol. Brain the size of particles, that cloud inside of parasites, that live inside the paradise of a pair of lice. He's a surge of melted ice cream, when he makes love like a ghost. Sparkles like a graveyard, but never gets the urge, and then sings Hallelujah! Hallelujah! like a turgid flatfoot dirge. Graham takes Litotezol.
He's a small dog.
Josie takes Hyperbolehyde. Ten thousand every second. See her face go touch the sky, when she climbs that rollercoaster high. That mouth! Such bliss! All the planets and the satellites make their home inside her lips. It's a four-minute warning! Atomic tongue! Nitrokisserene! Josie takes Hyperbolehyde.
She's a big dog.
Alanis takes Alitterene. It drags a deeper ditch. And all her dirty dealings display a debonair disdain. Her dynamo is dangerous, ditto her dusky dreams. Dummies devise diverse deluxe débâcles down dingy detox driveways. Alanis takes Alitterene.
She's a dead dog, ya dig?
Desmond takes Onomatopiates.
He's a woof woof.
Sylvia takes Oxymorox. She's got the teenage menopause. Gets her winter-sugar somersaults from sniffing non-stick glue. She wears the v-necked trousers, in the blind-eye looking-glass. Does the amputated tango, and then finds herself quite lost, in the new old english style, Sylvia takes Oxymorox.
She's a cat dog.
But Johnny takes Metaphorazine. Look at those busted street lamp eyes, that midnight clockface of a smile. That corrugated tinflesh roof of a brow. The knife, fork and spoon of his fingers, the sheer umbrella of the man's hairdo! The coldwater bedsit of his brain. He's a fanfare of atoms, I tell you! And you know that last, exquisite mathematical formula rubbed off the blackboard before the long summer holidays begin? Well, that's him. Speeding language through the veins, Johnny takes Metaphorazine.
He's a real dog.
This is from Pixel Juice. Read it.
A sheet of clingfilm covering a tiny bowl of green olives. I don't really use clingfilm anymore, this was purely for photographic purposes.
Taken for Macro Mondays - Theme 'Layer'
Kein Witz. Gerade noch rechtzeitig entdeckt.
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She still looks happy, curious and a little expectant. As if she wanted to wrap me around her finger. But if I hadn't unwrapped her – oh, I don't want to know what would have happened ... I still remember too well how much I banned all potentially dangerous things when the kids were little ;-) Well, I hope Tinkerbell knows herself what to do or not to do. She's already big. Well – or not. Her eye measures just 0,12 inch ;-)
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Noch guckt sie freudig, neugierig und ein bisschen erwartungsvoll. Als ob sie mich um den Finger wickeln möchte. Aber hätte ich sie nicht ausgewickelt – oh, ich möchte nicht wissen, was passiert wäre ... Ich erinnere mich noch zu gut, wie sehr ich alle potenziell gefährlichen Dinge verbannt habe, als die Kinder noch klein waren ;-) Nun, Tinkerbell weiß hoffentlich selber, was sie tun sollte oder besser lassen. Sie ist ja schon groß. Nun – oder nicht. Ihr Auge misst gerade mal drei Millimeter ;-)
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Ingredients: toy figure (Tinkerbell), cling film (transparent clear), book with my notes for Flickr (blue and fortunately steadfast), daylight, artificial light from below and from above (bicycle front light, placed under the transparent glass desk top and mobile phone light)
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Zutaten: Spielzeugfigur (Tinkerbell), Frischhaltefolie (durchsichtig klar), Buch mit meinen Notizen für Flickr (blau und zum Glück standhaft), Tageslicht, künstliches Licht von unten und von oben (Fahrradfrontleuchte, unter der durchsichtigen Schreibtischglasplatte platziert und Handyleuchte)
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If you want more fun with Tinkerbell, have a look at my album:
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Nikon Micro-Nikkor-P / 1:3.5 / 55 mm / extension 10 + 16 mm
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#MacroMondays 2021 / August 09 / #Foil / Stay safe, don't play with foil ;-) and HMM to everyone!
Love Potion Number 9? Shed window spotted in Ketchikan, Alaska. I love the vintage look of all the different shaped bottles. Not sure why there's also cling film and chicken wire but hey, each to his own. It makes for unique texture all the same.
Happy Window Wednesday!
Some black grapes under cling film taken with macro by the kitchen window. My original idea for this slightly back fired, so this was a backup plan.
Further experiments in cyanotype. This is a wet cyanotype print with paprika powder added to the cyanotype chemicals during application. Once dry the fern was placed on top and the whole paper was sprayed with dilute vinegar/water mix, Clingfilm on top and exposed under glass for 6 hours outdoors.
Blackberry and apple crumble refraction. Condensation on clingfilm over hot blackberry and apple crumble. Focus stacked using zerene
I love to make my own pasta.
The pasta dough has to be rolled very thinly. You should be able to see your skin through it when you place the rolled pasta over your hand.
The amount here will give me two dinners for 3 people (6 portions) I tend to stick to tagliatelle or angel hair pasta as I don't have a pasta machine, its easy to roll and slice. (I think Santa maybe bringing me a pasta machine???) one must be careful when one opens cupboards or maybe Hublets should hide things better hahahahahaha.
There are a few different recipes for pasta doughs, each region of Italy has their own way of making it. Some simply just use 00 flour and water. I prefer it with eggs and an equal amount of 00 Flour and Semolina and little Extra Virgin olive oil. The semolina helps the sauce stick to the pasta and the Extra Virgin Olive Oil makes it lovely to roll. Only a tiny bit of Extra Virgin Olive oil is needed, you get a smooth finish when you've kneaded it and rolled into a ball.. Wrap it up in clingfilm and it will keep in the fridge for 7 days.
The taste is sensational. The dough takes 10=15 minutes to make, you need to knead it though, kneading is important, great for the arms.
Its that simple, place it in the fridge and cut off the amount needed and roll it out, cut it into strips and place into boiling water until desired texture. Drain, and add a little of the pasta water to your sauce.
Yesterday my sauce was sliced garlic, anchovy fillets in oil, some dried chilli peppers all cooked in the anchovy oil and a knob of butter. As I cooked the pasta I threw in some broccoli heads. I then tossed them in the anchovy sauce and served the pasta and sauce with grated parmesan cheese. simple. perfect. tasty.
Served with flagons of wine... hahahaha
Dough Recipe
4 large eggs (room temperature)
1 1/2 cups of 00 flour
1 cup of Semolina flour
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
Happy Cooking
Debbie ~ KissThePixel 2021
Wet Cyanotype
Products used - Vinegar - lemon Juice - Curry Powder - Soapsuds - Clingfilm.
Exposure - 5 hrs
Dancing paint faffery was this afternoons activity. Latex sheet stretched across a pc sub woofer. Paint from your favourite Swedish meatball producer blobbed onto the substrate. Spicy Noodles soundtrack by Flava D provided the necessary bass kick!
Stroboism: 2 x YN560IV's, diffused, 1/64, 24mm, protected via clingfilm placed left and right to the front of the speaker. Triggered via YN560TX using the 'spray and pray' setting :)
I understand that the secret is to crack each egg into its separate oiled 'nest' of clingfilm, tie up the top, and cook for four and a half minutes in simmering water.
Compositionally Challenged: DIY filters week. This is another cling film one. I'm loving the cling film, it's cool! The only amendment to this one is that I added a 'vintage' filter to it, so the colours are slightly different - the background is now more mellow and beige/brown instead of bright and blue (the background is Lake Ontario and it was VERY blue) and I think the colours now fit together better.
I spent a happy time last night playing with clingfilm! I'd read about this and was very intrigued to see what it does. Hmm... yes, there's a lot of fun to be had here.
Who ever would've thought that the swelling cling film over the rising pizza dough would give a reflection?
I found a shell with a strange set of holes round the edge. They looked like tiny volcanos so with a bit of tubing and some clingfilm I got them to erupt.
Wet cyanotype print of a fern. Created by spraying the treated paper with a dilute vinegar/water mix and putting Clingfilm on top before exposing outside in the sun under a sheet of glass.
Macro Mondays: Triangle
BBQ tongs. An orange lightbulb reflected onto the surface of a steel pan that then reflected onto clingfilm provided the background flames.
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MM mods: The long sides of the triangle measure 2.8 cm. The image has been heavily cropped to fit sizing requirements.
Unfortunately (for me) I don't have the luxury of living near a cityscape like New York or Singapore, but I had a bag of screws and a creative mind ;)
"How I took it" - 9 various sized screws stood upright on a black perspex sheet. I crinkled up some clingfilm and arranged it behind the screws and perspex. Using a flash to bounce the light off the ceiling and a little white card to push some onto the scene, this lit up the clingfilm to make a nice bokeh effect.
Thanks for looking :)
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Wet cyanotype print of a duck feather. Treated paper sprayed with diluted vinegar solution and covered with crumpled Clingfilm. The feather was put on top and covered with the glass. It was exposed outdoors in mixed weather for 5 hours.
Wet cyanotype print of two wild cranesbill leaves that I dried and pressed last year. The leaves were placed onto Hahnemuhle Aquarelle watercolour paper that I had treated with cyanotype chemicals. The paper was sprayed with a weak solution of white vinegar and water using a plant spray and rock salt was sprinkled over the top in some areas. This was exposed outdoors under a sheet of glass for approximately 2 hours.
I started this painting over a year ago at a art class copying the basic lines from on of the tutor's pictures..Brought home unfinished untill last weekend when I decided to finish it. Nothing like the original but I'm fairly ok with it.
Holga 120N. Kodak Portra 160VC. 10 seconds exposure on bulb setting, through cling film & KY jelly.
"If we are only waiting here to die,
at least let me put my arms around you.
Why try to keep it from myself,
when it feels so good to sing about love?"
- Of Montreal
'At Night Trees Aren't Sleeping'
We saw a little bit of sun yesterday so I managed to get out in the garden and make some new cyanotype prints. This one of a fern frond from the garden was created using the wet cyanotype technique, sprinkling on a small amount of rock salt and covering with cling film. It was exposed under glass outdoors for approx. 2 hours but it did cloud over so wasn't in direct sun for the full time. The textures created by the salt and cling film create some lovely background textures. The colour changes the longer it is exposed and some other prints done yesterday came out much darker because they were exposed for longer in stronger sun earlier in the day.
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