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Little sister keeping close!
It reminded me of the Carpenters song
..."Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you"
For the Macro Monday challenge "small and smaller” (March 20 2023)
My 2023 set: Here
previous years of the Macro Mondays challenge:
My 2022 set: Here
My 2021 set: Here
My 2020 set: Here
My 2019 set: Here
My 2018 set: Here
My 2017 set: Here
My 2016 set: Here
My 2015 set: Here
My 2014 set: Here
My 2013 set: Here
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#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!
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#Bottles(s)
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This is the base of a green glass bottle that once contained white wine and now is a vase. I often keep beautiful bottles, big or small, just because they look nice. I use them as decorative objects, as colour filters for tabletop photography, or as vases. And when I saw this bottle, I bought it specifically because it looked so nice (hoping that the content would be nice as well – it was), and with the intention of turning it into a vase. There's a glasser around my corner who has cut off the necks of quite a few bottles for me, as the DIY methods you can find on YouTube seemed too unsafe for me to do it myself. When I turned the bottle upside down, I noticed the really interesting-looking circular pattern at the base consisting of many tiny indendations. I've experimented with light from different positions, and backlit (with a hint of red light slightly from the front / above) brought out the patterns best.
There's also a bit of an optical illusion here, because the whole bottle base is convex (as to be expected), and the circle at the centre is a convex shape of its own, even though in the final image it looks concave, sort of bulging. And with those two extra, almost V-shaped indentations at the centre it reminded me of a reptile's eye staring right at me ;)
The "V" shape at the centre is 0,5 cm / 0,19 inches long, and the circle itself has a diameter of 2,5 cm / 0,98 inches. It's a single shot processed in DXO PhotoLab 5, with further tweaks in Analog Efex (vignette, Vintage Camera 5), and in Color Efex (Brilliance & Warmth, Detail Extractor, Photo Stylizer).
HMM, Everyone, take care and stay safe!
Schau mir in die Augen, Kleines? Nun, warum nicht. Denn weder hat Humphrey Bogart das tatsächlich so gesagt noch ist Kaa böse, obwohl er in den Disney-Verfilmungen des Dschungelbuchs so dargestellt wird. Und eigentlich ist das der sehr harmlose Flaschenboden einer ehemaligen Weißweinflasche, die nun als Vase fungiert. Ich hebe oft schöne Flaschen auf, egal welcher Größe, die ich als Deko-Objekt, als Vase oder auch manchmal als Farbfilter für Fotos verwende. Bei dieser besonders schönen Flasche, die ich schon mit dem Gedanken, daraus eine Vase zu machen, gekauft hatte, hat mir der Glaser um die Ecke den Flaschenhals abgeschnitten, damit ein ganzer Strauß Blumen darin Platz findet und nicht nur eine einzelne Blume. Ich weiß, dass es auf YouTube jede Menge DIY-Anleitungen gibt, die mir aber alle zu unsicher sind, um das selbst zu machen. Jetzt habe ich beim großen Fluss aber DIY-Sets entdeckt, die ich mir mal genauer ansehen werde ;)
Die Flasche an sich hätte für ein Makro nicht viel hergegeben, als ich sie aber umdrehte, fiel mir am nach innen gewölbten Boden ein interessantes kreisförmiges Muster, bestehend aus vielen winzigen Einkerbungen, auf. Und das habe ich mir dann durch das Makroobjektiv mal genauer angesehen. Das Resultat erinnert mich ein wenig an ein Reptilienauge, besonders mit den beiden länglichen (vorgewölbten) Einkerbungen in der Mitte. Dass der innere Kreis nochmals deutlich nach innen gewölbt ist, aber wie ein Auge konkav wirkt, ist eine optische Täuschung (wie sie bei solchen Formen häufig vorkommt, finde ich). Das Foto ist eine Einzelaufnahme, hauptsächlich von hinten beleuchtet, mit etwas rotem Licht leicht von vorne / oben für extra Akzente.
Habt eine schöne Dezemberwoche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, und passt gut auf Euch auf!
Preliminary study, however, would be
discarded according to the rules.
THANKS for the hint Anne-Miek Bibbe 🙏
Time to decorate...
#MacroMondays
#Kitchen
I know that some of you have already fully decorated your apartments or houses for the festive season, but we haven't even started properly yet. No Advent wreath, just four tealight holders with tealights, no tree (but we never put that up until right before Christmas Eve). So I thought I'd start decorating with some macro Christmas colours for "Kitchen".
But first of all, I sort of shot myself in the foot instead of shooting what was asked for: a kitchen tool. Yesterday, while cleaning up after preparing fruits for breakfast (grapes among them), I saw a tiny, round, berry-shaped leftover on the counter and picked it up to take a closer look. It was a baby grape, or rather a grape embryo, because the tiny thing was only 3 mm/0,11 inches long (4 with stem). Needless to say, this called for the Laowa 50mm Ultra Macro, and I became so obsessed with including the tiny grape in the photo that I forgot about the required subject.
And when I re-checked the theme description today, I thought, "Oh, yikes, I got the subject wrong". So I rummaged through the kitchen counters, picked up this and that, and in the end, as I was running out of time, settled for an abstract approach and a speciality knife with a very pronounced serrated edge (a proper zigzag when looked at from above): a decorator knife. With the help of my makeshift colour filters, I tried to bring out the blade's triangle shapes, and at the same time, "separate" them from the blade. The result reminded me of a jester collar/costume.
Size info: The blade's notches are 1,2 cm/0,47 inches long, and the zigs of the zag (what is visible in the scene) are 3 mm/0,11 inches long, so the width of the frame should be about 3 cm/1,18 inches.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
Warwick Castle Light trail 2024.
Happy Christmas and best wishes for the coming New Year to all my Flickr friends!
Looking south across the Georges River, southern Sydney, towards Sylvania.
Published in Guide to Sydney Rivers - Published in Guide to Sydney Rivers - meusepress.tripod.com/sydneyrivers.pdf
Today marks my 1000th upload to Flickr and I just want to give you all a HUGE THANKS for the support and friendship and fantastic comments on my work over the last 999 pictures and contributing to almost 2.5 million views. I love reading your comments, many of them quite humorous and hope you will continue to enjoy my photography :)
One simply cannot visit Canada (Ontario anyway) and not visit Niagara Falls!!!!
This has been my third trip to Canada since 2011 and my third trip to Niagara... and the first time I got to see it at night! oh boy was it a treat!
Anyone who follows me on facebook already got a sneak preview of this, but I was so excited to know that the light show started at 7pm and we'd be there to see it. I've seen loads of photographs of it and I just really wanted one of my own :)
It was a cold evening and we'd done quite a bit of walking already that day, having visited the Butterfly Conservatory and Bird Kingdom (more photos to come LOL), but this was something really special! The lights were amazing and I just prayed ONE photo would come out bright and in focus... and sure enough, out of ALL the photos I took, this was the one :)
I hadn't brought my tripod and was depending on the awful stone wall to prop my camera on top of... to make matters worse that evening was very windy and I was terrified of losing my camera, so I'd been clinging tightly to the strap which meant a lot of the long exposure shots were a little blurry. But I finally found an exposure of 4 seconds worked ok for me.
HAVE A GREAT FRIDAY EVERYONE :)
Gastown
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the creation of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Currently, it is a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest end of Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
Its historical boundaries were the waterfront (now Water Street and the CPR tracks), Columbia Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the 1870 townsite survey, the proper name and postal address of which was Granville, B.I. ("Burrard Inlet"). The official boundary[citation needed] does not include most of Hastings Street except for the Woodward's and Dominion Buildings, and stretches east past Columbia St., to the laneway running parallel to the west side of Main Street.
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Featured in this image is the World's First Steam Clock.
For more information, please see the previous photo.
A special thanks to all my Flickr friends and visitors, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.
I would also, like to extend my thanks, to all those who place my images in their beautiful galleries, or use my images for their covers.
Additionally, I am truly humbled to receive so many thoughtful and generous testimonies. I cannot express how deeply touched and honoured I am, to find such caring and beautifully written words left on my behalf.
Happy Clicks
~Christie
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#Superstition
I've always wanted to use this collector coin for an MM theme, and the "Superstition" theme gave me another opportunity. My dad used to give me special edition coins for collecting, usually 5 or 10 Deutsche Mark (DM) pieces that were (and still are, but now as Euro, of course) issued for special anniversaries or in honour of important personalities. This is one of the coins. I'm keeping it in my wallet as a good luck charm, and whenever I change the wallet, the coin comes along.
There is nothing superstitious about the theme of the coin itself: a 10 DM silver (werewolves, anyone?) coin, issued for the 150th anniversary of the now worldwide operating Kolpingwerk, a Catholic Charity founded by Adolph Kolping (Kolping was a German shoemaker and later a clergyman who had originally initiated it in the mid-1800s as a journeyman union to improve the working conditions of apprentices), but the mere fact that it's a good luck charm makes it an ideal candidate for "Superstition", and there is also a quite funny story connected to it.
Ages ago, when I visited a street party with friends, we went to a shop to buy some water bottles (ever since, I've long come to always bring a home-filled bottle along to spare me the hassle of buying on the go), and I didn't have any coins in my purse other than this 10 DM coin. I hesitated to use it, but then thought, "Come on, don't be superstitious, it's time to let go", so I paid for my bottle of water with it. And instantly regretted it, but again thought, "don't be silly, it's just a coin". Of course, I kept vigorously discussing it in my mind ("No, it's not just a coin, it's extra special"), and after we had been walking for a while, I decided to ask my friends to lend me some money, ran to the shop, felt even sillier than before, but what matters is: I got the coin back ;)
To emphasise the illusion of superstitions, I placed the coin on the "warped" mirror tile (fixated with modelling clay) and focused mainly on the distorted reflection. In the coin's design, there is also a triangle: a symbol that is not only perceived as holy but is also connected to the secret society of the Illuminati, about which myths and conspiracy theories persist to this day; so I tried to highlight it.
Size info: The coin's diameter is 3 cm/1,18 inches.
HMM, Everyone!
Conwy Castle, Conwy, North Wales.
Conwy Castle Coordinates..... 53.28°N 3.825556°W
Conwy Castle (Welsh: Castell Conwy) Is a fortification in Conwy, located in North Wales. It was built by Edward I, during his conquest of Wales, between 1283 and 1289. Constructed as part of a wider project to create the walled town of Conwy, the combined defences cost around £15,000, a huge sum for the period. Over the next few centuries, the castle played an important part in several wars. It withstood the siege of Madog ap Llywelyn in the winter of 1294–95, acted as a temporary haven for Richard II in 1399 and was held for several months by forces loyal to Owain Glyndŵr in 1401..
Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1646 when it surrendered to the Parliamentary armies. In the aftermath, the castle was partially slighted by Parliament to prevent it being used in any further revolt, and was finally completely ruined in 1665 when its remaining iron and lead was stripped and sold off. Conwy Castle became an attractive destination for painters in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Visitor numbers grew and initial restoration work was carried out in the second half of the 19th century. In the 21st century, the ruined castle is managed by Cadw as a tourist attraction.
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#Pareidolia
Tom knew he was destined for greater things. He was fed up with his kitchen job, day in, day out scraping the ceramic hob whenever the stupid humans in the house had been unattentive (again) and something had boiled over. Something he knew would never happen to him. Didn't they know he was an intelligent, sentient being? In his dreams, he was a fully-fledged robot with superpowers, and a famous, Michelin star-decorated Chef. His robotic swiftness and razor-sharp mind would revolutionise how the world cooked and ate. But here he was, inside a kitchen drawer, waiting for the next "Great Boil-over". As he was about to work himself into a rage of indignity (while his drawer mates sighed, eyes rolling: "Oh no, not another tantrum, Tom, come on!"), he heard the distant voice of one of the humans, and then the drawer opened. "There you are! Great! Come on, I need your help with a photo assignment, it will be fun!" "Finally she recognises my true talents", Tom huffed more to himself. "Well, it's not as if you were doing the scraping job alone, right? Because behind every ceramic hob scraper is a human hand that leads it. Isn't it?", the human said. "No need to be so over-dramatic...", Tom grumbled. But inside, Tom was smiling.
I didn't expect this to be so straightforward. Usually, pareidolia just "happens" but it's difficult when I'm deliberately looking for it. So I rummaged through the kitchen shelves and drawers with little hope of finding something I hadn't already used for a pareidolia-themed photo before, such as the old phone (its underside resembled E.T. but it has long been discarded) or the toaster's crumb tray (that had a surprisingly happy smile). But then I found "him", the unfortunate ceramic hob scraper that (or rather: who) has an even nastier job than the crumb tray and the cutest surprised face. On its flipside, there is the "GS" logo (GS = "Geprüfte Sicherheit", "Tested Safety", a voluntary certification mark for technical equipment), the production number, and the manufacturer's logo which I first misread as "TOM" (wrong glasses) but says "TCM". So "Tom" it was.
To make Tom look more interesting than possible with just the bland steel tone and the hint of rust on the pretty well-used blade aka his "hair", I used my makeshift colour filters to jazz him up a little and enhance the robot look.
A first single test shot already looked nice but since an image like this works best with all-over sharpness, I did in-camera stacking (15 Raw files combined in Helicon Focus, method B, R 8, S4). Size info: Tom is 4,5 cm/1,77 inches at his widest.
HMM, Everyone!
Netherlands, Rotterdam, Rochussenstraat, Nederlands Architectuur Intstituut - NAI (Jo Coenen), Arcade under the institute's archive, Light art (Pieter Struycken), Pedestrians.
Yesterday I ended my workday the smart way - I truncated it and went to a brasserie for coffee and after that beer with a dear firend. Walking back she lended me her tripod. :-)
The pedestrian in front was wondering if we were making a video ("I don't mind, I'm just curious") and I showed her this one..... and she liked it.
I actually took most of my shots with the red LED light of my little flashlight, but had to try the green. I did not like the results of the colour all that much so for this one I played with the colour balance to arrive at colour that is far from accurate but with a colour balance I am happy with.
Belfast City Hall was designed and built using Portland stone in the Baroque Revival style after Queen Victoria granted Belfast city status in 1888. The building was opened in 1906. The city hall in Durban, South Africa is an almost exact replica built in 1910.
A Lot Out Of Focus! A deliberate shot to make some nice big coloured bokeh baubles from the Christmas lights wrapped around the trunk of our silver birch tree! I liked how so many new colours came from the overlapping of the four basic original colours of the lights.
Taken from our front door and looking across our own garden toward our neighbours on the other side of the street. After many years of living in an area sadly prone to vandalism, it is wonderful to be able to do up the gardens a little. We have a friendly little rivalry with the neighbours in that every time one of us goes out and buys another string of lights, the other will respond as well! It is making for a cheerful corner of our village where many more lights are popping up everywhere.
So, what do you get a very-curious-about-everything man who acts like it's his seventh birthday?
After taking the shot in the first comment box below, I casually said, "Those would be kind o'cool for a photography opportunity-slash-experiment." Well, wouldn't you know the Amazon driver shows up a couple of days later. Fascinating how that kind of thing happens, really.
The Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona, masterpiece by Gianlorenzo Bernini dating back to the period 1648-51, illuminated with colored lights during the Christmas period in January 2015.
The marble group, which incorporates the base of the obelisk above, represents those which, according to the knowledge of that time, were the 4 longest rivers on Earth: Nile, Ganges, Danube and Rio de la Plata.
Ferris Wheel, Llandudno, Conwy County, North Wales.
Ferris Wheel, Llandudno, Coordinates.. 53.325°N 3.826°W.
A Ferris wheel (or a big wheel in the United Kingdom) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually by gravity. Some of the largest modern Ferris wheels have cars mounted on the outside of the rim, with electric motors to independently rotate each car to keep it upright. These wheels are sometimes referred to as observation wheels and their cars referred to as capsules. However, these alternative names are also used for wheels with conventional gravity-oriented cars.
Llandudno, North Wales!
Llandudnois a seaside resort, town and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea. In the 2011 UK census, the community — which includes Gogarth, Penrhyn Bay, Craigside, Glanwydden, Penrhynside, and Bryn Pydew — had a population of 20,701. The town's name is derived from its patron saint, Saint Tudno.
Llandudno is the largest seaside resort in Wales, and as early as 1861 was being called 'the Queen of the Welsh Watering Places' (a phrase later also used in connection with Tenby and Aberystwyth; the word 'resort' came a little later). Historically a part of Caernarfonshire, Llandudno was formerly in the district of Aberconwy within Gwynedd.
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