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Captured with a manual Nikkor 50 mm ƒ1:1.2 on my Nikon Df, post processed in Lightroom using VSCO Film Pack.
Footsie paper clips macro possibly for Macro Mondays, the theme of which is PPEP, Pen, Pencils, Erasers, and Paper clips.
More sturdy than a single clip in the underside of a plate. www.dagsbricks.com/2015/09/lego-techniques-clip-it-good.html
Taken using Sony Macro lens and a ring light attachment, laid out on a black paper background that was darkened in the final image to make the clips stand out more.
This is my Pocket Filofax which I carry with me all the time. Diary, notebook, commonplace book, cash accounts … and lots more.
This slim Papermate ballpoint pen fits nicely in the rings, held there firmly by its clip. The photo was taken by me at Shere, near Guildford, of my wife Valerie; sadly she died in 2003.
This photograph, which comes to you by courtesy of the letter C, is my third picture for the February Alphabet Fun: 2020 group.
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(Edited image posted on Tumblr and reblogged a lot: punabot.tumblr.com/post/4148048604/clips-paper-and-holds-...
(Sept 29: Blog post with more amazing uses for binder clips! petty.me.uk/?p=1003) (WARNING: some sarcasm may be involved)
(September 20 2010: More attention from Lifehacker, Twitter and Reddit. This is crazy!)
(August 16 2010: This is suddenly getting quite a lot of attention thanks to @lettersofnote on Twitter.)
I'm on twitter as @muteboy if you're interested in not ever seeing any more cool ideas like this one ever again.
A paper clip is usually a thin wire in a looped shape that takes advantage of the elasticity and strength of the materials of its construction (usually steel or some other metal, but sometimes plastic) to compress and therefore hold together two or more pieces of paper by means of torsion and friction. Some other kinds of paper clip use a two-piece clamping system.
Recent innovations include multi-colored plastic-coated paper clips and spring-fastened binder clips.
History
The most common type of wire paper clip still in use, the Gem paper clip, was never patented, but it was most likely in production in Britain already in the early 1870s by "The Gem Manufacturing Company", according to the American expert on technological innovations, professor Henry J. Petroski. He refers to an 1883 article about "Gem Paper-Fasteners", praising them for being "better than ordinary pins" for "binding together papers on the same subject, a bundle of letters, or pages of a manuscript". Since the 1883 article had no illustration of this early "Gem", it may have been different from modern paper clips of that name. The earliest documentation of its existence is an advertisement for "Gem Paper Clips" published by Cushman & Denison, 172 9th Avenue, New York City, in The Book-Keeper, August 1894, p. 6. In 1904 Cushman & Denison registered a trade mark for the "Gem" name in connection with paper clips. The announcement stated that it had been used since March 1, 1892, which may have been the time of its introduction in the United States. Paper clips are still sometimes called "Gem clips", and in Swedish the word for any paper clip is "gem".
Definite proof that the modern type of paper clip was well known in 1899 at the latest is the patent granted to William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut on April 27 of that year for a "Machine for making wire paper clips". The drawing clearly shows that the product is a perfect clip of the Gem type. The fact that Middlebrook did not mention it by name, suggests that it was already well known at the time. Since then countless variations on the same theme have been patented. Some have pointed instead of rounded ends, some have the end of one loop bent slightly to make it easier to insert sheets of paper, and some have wires with undulations or barbs to get a better grip. In addition, purely aesthetic variants have been patented, clips with triangular or round shapes. But the original Gem type has for more than a hundred years proved to be the most practical, and consequently by far the most popular. Its qualities of easy use, gripping without tearing, and storing without tangling have been difficult to improve on.
It has been claimed, though apparently without evidence, that Herbert Spencer, the originator of the term "survival of the fittest", invented the paper clip.
Today's Bible verse:
Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 PETER 3:18
My daughter has a lot of hair, and a lot of clips! They always seemed to be mixed up in containers and hard to find, or spread all around the house. I've been meaning to make a holder for them all - and after her birthday (and lots of lovely clips as gifts) it became an urgent project! I designed this to hang on a wall and then to roll up so it was easy to pack when we travel.
Clip cortometraje "Corte Carnicero"
Dir. Alvaro Tapia
Actuación : Andrés Hernández, Vanessa Montero, Zenon Cerda.
Música : Alonso Quijada.
Valparaíso, Chile 2004
The green paper clip is nowhere near Inchworm green!
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I got this technique from Steggybean, but he used it in a different way. The 1x1 tile clip has the best bite, but most clips will work. The grilles can also be held in by a 2x2 bracket upside down and there's even enough room under the 1x1 tile clip for another plate so they can be linked easily.
Canon R6 with Nikkor 135mm f2.8 AIS
So mad at myself but so happy to use one of my favorite lenses again
Our Daily Challenge 20-26 January : Strength.
This hangs in my greenhouse, and I think it may have a been a tow-rope left by a lodger