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Macro Mondays - Cutter

Leaf cutter bee doing what leaf cutter bees do.......

Macro Monday theme of the week is "Cutter". Gold nail clipper.

Cutters off Swansea Bay

A metal cookie cutter seen edge on.

sussex, n.b.

An early morning out at the lake and I found this fellow perched nicely for me to play around with macro.

320 second, ISO 400, F:16. 50mm lens with Raynox 250 + 20mm extension tube. Nikon D7100 camera. On camera flash going through a Gary Fong diffuser.

Fincastle, Alberta, Canada.

Here is a shot of my coworker cutting some metal using a plasma cutter. I took this a while back when I had brought the camera to work. I was looking through some old stuff and thought this one had some potential for a nice gritty HDR.

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Two cookie cutters in reflection (total size shown is ~2 1/2 inches)

Nail cutter on a front surfaced mirror.

Sandafell is like a ship’s prow cutting through the mist, except the mist moves rather than the mountain

I really liked the colors and shallow dof with this choice. I used my 50 mm lens with a photo aperture control as an extender..on my Nikon d7100 post processing LR.

A study of the nail clipper. A humble but effective and classic engineering design.

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Notice the many golf-ball sized divots in the body of this elephant seal. These were caused by the terrifying cookie-cutter shark, the existence of which I would have preferred to remain ignorant. Elephant seal mother and nursing pup, Piedras Blancas, California.

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Macro Mon. Mar. 8 - Cutter

Cropped closeup.

Blade to clean the ceramic glass cooktop. The handle suffered a bit due to the heat from the hotplate.

Here's the famous "Eaf" cutter bee sealing her egg in a bamboo stem.

Hopefully this pupae will hatch next year to start the cycle all over again. (That rhymes !)

The Lightning Cutter of Viken.

Setting with a stone from the garden and a letter opener 😁

My submission for HARDnuary 2014, the theme is Hardware and Common Things. Come join and participate in here: www.flickr.com/groups/hardnuary/

I found this tiny leaf-cutter bee on my yellow butterfly weed. It let me get very close for this shot.

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Mini Combination Plier

Leaf Cutter bees take up residence in my insect hotel.

Taken for Macro Mondays group, theme 'Cutter'. Week 10/2020.

This is a set of pastry cutters. The largest is 4 inches so this is just a part of it.

It's lit with a couple of LED lights. I've cropped it to 16x9 but otherwise it's straight out of the camera.

Sigma 105mm, f2.8 macro DG EX

The 2015 Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend had a wide variety of boats from kayaks on up to big schooners. This gaff-rigged cutter just completed an 11-year circumnavigation of the world. The boat in the background is the historic Dorjun with her lifeboat hull and curved gaff.

See:https://woodenboat.org/plan-your-visit

Cookie cutters

ODC - 12/26/2020 - Extremely Obvious Shapes

I found this Leaf Cutter Bee early in the morning, covered in pollen, and the dew had slowed its metabolism down. While photographing it the critter woke up and started "chattering" -rapidly opening and closing its mandibles. It looks intimidating, but it's not trying to bite but simply trying to get its blood pumping. Kinda like when we get cold and shiver.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to 4x) + a diffused MT-26EX RT (E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order.

Megachile sp.

This may be an unlikely choice for the subject Cutter but it does qualify.

It is the "Cutting Edge" of the blade of our lawn mower. It has hit more than a small number of stones over the years and has already been resharpened a couple of times.

Cutter for Macro Mondays

A more peaceful scene than the name would suggest...