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Not all amateur photographers own a DSLR. They are expensive, heavy and bulky, while compacts camera fits anywhere. Some of them have a nice macro feauture, that allow to really get close, but for a 1:1 macro you will have to experiment. On this image, apply the same macro coupler principle for a DSLR. I have a box of all kind of surplus lenses and found a small 20mm, reversed and mounted with electrical tape, set the compact to telephoto. My compact at telephoto is 20mm, so 20 /20=1. So able to reach a 1:1 macro with this setup. This small red fly is not a regular size fly, it only measure 2.5mm long, is really hard to see because of it's light color. But this macro setup was able to resolve even the microscopic hairs on the back of this red fly. Recommendation: Use the camera on Program mode with flash and low ISO. If the flash is too strong, cover it with a darker film.
Data: Canon PowerShot A2200 @20mm with a reverse 20mm tape on, f/5.9, 1/160, ISO: 1600, Maginfication: 1:1, Mode: Program, Focus: auto, Support: handheld, Flash: none, Process: Zoner Photo Studio 12, file: IMG_0455, Date: July 13, 2012.
Spanish: Mas abajo esta la versión en Español.
After digging for 40 minutes I found the trash. After literally removing an entire dumpster of trash.
Story: After I put up the video of my retouching on the Jonnie Walker shot I got a meeting with a company that makes cosmetics. Since I didn't really have any cosmetics in my book I spent some quality time shooting specifically for that meeting. This was actually the shot that I started with. I knew I wanted a shot of a compact and this was basically the most difficult compact to shoot I could find. The entire thing is mirrored.
Lighting: The compact is sitting on a white seamless and there are two lights. There is a bare dynalite 2040 head from camera left providing the hard shadow. Then there is another bare head from camera right pointed to the seamless and that is what is providing the light fall off for the top. If the seamless is one color then the chrome doesn't look chrome so you have to get some light fall off. In addition to the two lights there is also a reflector right in front and a reflector overhead. The camera is just able to get between the two reflectors which is why the compact is small on the sensor in the before shot. I really needed that bit of light on the edge around the actual makeup.
Ich habe des öfteren darüber nachgedacht, warum Hunde ein derart kurzes Leben haben, und bin zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass dies aus Mitleid mit der menschlichen Rasse geschieht; denn da wir bereits derart leiden, wenn wir einen Hund nach zehn oder zwölf Jahren verlieren, wie groß wäre der Schmerz, wenn sie doppelt so lange lebten?
(Walter Scott)
Compacted trash. Here is the problem. I thought that bag was the bag I needed. It was NOT. This was from earlier. The trash gets pushed I of the dumpster and the. Shoved as hard as possible. Older trash is not as destroyed as it’s moved up and falls over. The bag I am looking for is completely smushed and buried in trash. But I had to find it.
Architect: James Herbert Brownell (1962)
Developer: Pearce & Co.
Builder: Fergin-Griffin Co.
Location: San Diego (Pacific Beach), CA
Brownell was an architect based in Corona Del Mar, just up the road in Orange County. These sixteen homes demonstrate an ingenious solution to a series of narrow, sloping lots with views on one side. The solution was to build them as row homes, and push them as far up the hill as possible to maximize the views.
This is from an ad that appeared in the local newspaper at the time.
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This is a lovely custom case doll presentation inside a basket trunk with all the charm of a vintage case doll. What you will find inside the strong yet light wicker case is a tiny plastic doll which is 20cm tall, her four dresses, one petticoat, two pairs of Mary Jane shoes, one black and one white, a pair of tiny socks, panties, four hair ribbons for every dress plus a small rococo box where the ribbons and an extra pair of shoes fit nicely in. In addition Marie's small friend who always travels with her, a tiny black cat, is also included! Everything is securely attached to the box with ribbons and tiny pins, every item is easy to remove and use as well as to be put back in its place inside the box.
The doll is made from two different vintage dolls. Her face is slightly customized by me, the hair is rich with a lot of volume, only a few hair plugs are missing but you don't notice it considering the richness of the hair in general. Her body is in a very good condition and the head and the body both attach perfectly.
Everything is handmade with a lot of care and dedication and makes for a wonderful small compact doll case which when opened offers charm. Everything fits inside the brand new wicker suitcase, bought especially for this little project. Its measurements are 25 com x 17 cm x 9 cm.
Peziza varia group (Hedw.) Fr.
EN: Layered Cup group, DE: Riesenbecherling, Wachsbecherling, Veränderlicher Becherling gruppe
Slo.: skupina raznolične skledice
Dat.: Nov. 26. 2018
Lat.: 46.360270 Long.: 13.703867
Code: Bot_1165/2018_DSC4314
Habitat: trail edge; wood edge (Fagus sylvatica, Fraxinus ornus, Ostrya carpinifolia, Picea abies); slightly inclined mountain slope, northeast aspect; calcareous, colluvial, skeletal ground with many calcareous rocks; mostly shady place; partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, elevation 585 m (1.910 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.
Substratum: moos covered compact, calcareous rock with a thin layer of humus beneath the moss.
Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soča and Trenta, right bank of river Soča, next to the trail from Skokar farm house, Trenta 2 to Trenta 2b cottage, East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia EC.
Comments: This find remains only vaguely determined. All observed traits do not fit well to any Peziza species description I was able to find. The best fit seems to be Peziza varia group (Ref.1). The fruit body shows (considered typical) five distinct layers in cross section. Asci and paraphyses fit dimensionally well to Peziza varia, however, paraphyses' shape is not moniliform as described in most sources including Breitenbach (Ref. 6). The habit seems only marginally similar to pictures found in the literature (with eventual exception in Ref. 9). Measured spores are consistently too narrow. They exhibit two distinct oil drops when still in asci (observed slightly out of microscope focus). This contradicts to most descriptions in the literature, an exception being Ref.: 5. Also Ref.: 6 states that with several Peziza species oil drops disappear, when the spores become mature and are released from asci. Substratum is very strange. It should be wood/roots according to most sources, but there was no wood or roots of reasonable size in the vicinity of this fruit body.
Alternativelyy Peziza cerea (Sowerby) Gilled, also belonging to this group, was consider. Hohmeyer's key in Ref. 8 seems conform to this determination. Peziza cerea has slightly narrower spores than Peziza varia, hence it somewhat better, but not fully, fits to this find. It doesn't have moniliform paraphyses. Also: Ref. 3. states as (one of possible) substratum small wood debris and Ref. 6. states (among other options) organic debris. Both could eventually be present under the moss layer where the fruit body was growing. But, for Peziza cerea the edge of the fruit body should be entire according to Medardi Ref.: 3., which is not the case in this find.
But, the upper thoughts may be already superfluous. Molecular research (Ref.: 2) in 2002 apparently demonstrated no justification for recognizing more than one species in the Peziza varia complex. The study included 27 specimens that have been referred to under the names Peziza cerea, Peziza micropus and Peziza repanda from an array of substrates. Morphological characters used to delimit species within this complex, such as color variation of the apothecia, presence or absence of a stipe, stratified or non-stratified medullary exciple and its layers, and moniliform vs. filiform paraphyses were not correlated with the subgroups supported by ITS analyses and appeared to be plastic. Therefore, Peziza cerea, Peziza repanda and Peziza micropus are placed in synonymy with Peziza varia. I don't know to what degree these results are generally accepted today. But they do not reflect (yet?) in Index Fungorum and MycoBank. If this research is accepted, then this find could be named Peziza varia (Hedw.: Fr.) Fr.
Fruit body dimensions 4 by 3.5 cm and 3 cm tall; in the field the fruit body was almost the same color inside and outside; after two days, in half dry state, the outer surface became grayish and much lighter than the inner, while the inner surface became much darker brown; taste indistinctive, slightly mushroomy; smell almost none, eventually slightly on rotten leaves, earth; hymenium near the edge of fruit body consisted of almost only paraphyses with some not yet mature asci and in the center of the sporocarp almost only asci with very few paraphyses were present; SP very faint, beige ochre (?).
Spores smooth, some may be slightly punctuated (barely visible with my equipment at magnification 1000x - not visible on the published spore picture). Spores taken by soft brush from the center of the fruit body. Spore dimensions: (14.2) 14.5 - 15.9 (16.3) × (7) 7.3 - 8 (8.2) µm; Q = (1.8) 1.9 - 2.2 (2.3); N = 28; Me = 15.2 × 7.6 µm; Qe = 2.
Asci: (239) 243 - 297 (298) × (11.5) 13.7 - 16.6 (20.2) µm; Q = (11.9) 14.6 - 21.7 (23.5); N = 14; Me = 269 × 14.7 µm; Qe = 18.7.
Paraphyses dimensions: diameter: (3.9) 3.93 - 4.7 (5) µm; Me = 4.3 µm; diameter at the tip: (5.5) 6 - 7.3 (7.9); Me = 6.6 µm.
Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil (spores, terminal portion of asci); NEA 40x/0.65, magnification 400x (asci, excipulum, hymenium, paraphyses, outer surface) and NEA 10x/0.25, magnification 100x (asci), in water, fresh material. AmScope MA500 digital camera.
Herbarium: Mycotheca and Herbarium of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Večna pot 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Index Herbariorum acronym LJF
Ref.:
(1) Personal communication with Prof. dr. Dragiša Savić, University of Niš, Faculty of Technology, Serbia and Mr. Bojan Rot, www. gobenabovskem.si.
(2) K. Hansen, T. Laessoe, D. H. Pfister, Phylogenetic diversity in the core group of Peziza inferred from ITS sequences and morphology, Mycol. Res. 106 (8) (2002), p 879–902; available at: www.ascofrance.com/uploads/forum_file/Peziza-s.str.-Mycol... (accessed Jan. 22. 2019)
(3) G. Medardi, Atlante fotografico de gli Ascomiceti d'Italia, AMB, (2006), p 209,
(4) G. Medardi, www.yumpu.com/es/document/read/10098062/peziza-cerea-sowe...
(5) H.O. Baral & O. Baral, G. Marson, In vivo veritas (Pezizaceae), CD, 2nd edition (2003).
(6) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.1., Verlag Mykologia (1984), p 78.
(7) M. W. Beug, A.E. Bessette, A.R. Bessette, Ascomycete Fungi of North America, Uni.of Texas Press, Austin (2014), p 221.
(8) H. Hohmeyer, Ein Schlussel zu den europaischen Arten der gatung Peziza L., Zeitschrift fur Mykologie (1986), p 161; available at: www.dgfm-ev.de/publikationen/artikelarchiv/ein-schluessel... (P. cerea)
(9) www.biolib.cz/en/image/id156948/ (accessed Jan.23. 2019)
My recently acquired Walther PPK .32 ACP pistol.
Just for the curious, PPK stands for Polizei Pistole Kriminal Modell or Police Pistol Detective Model. It was first issued in 1931 in 7.65mm (.32 ACP) and made to be used for undercover police work. They were also issued to German military police, Luftwaffe and Nazi Party members during WWII. Hitler committed suicide with his PPK. Also famous for being James Bond's sidearm.
Most PPKs in the US were made under license by INTERARMS or Smith & Wesson (which is who made this PPK) due to laws on importing firearms this small.
(Note: This is a PPK and not a PPK/S, which uses a larger frame to hold an extra round of ammo)