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

Megachile sp.

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.

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

Embroidery scissors

HMM

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

BMX Cranks and down hill bash-guard on a track bike.

A metal cookie cutter seen edge on.

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.

Still raining all day....So been making some mincepies these are the star cutters for the lid.....

When wine bottles had a cork and foil, this great little tool got plenty of use.

Distorted fishing cutter.

Reflections in the water of fishing cutter and houses in Nyhavn, Copenhagen

March 2022

Leica Elmarit R 90mm 2.8, Sony A7R3.

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...in downtown Barcelona, Spain.

Nikkor 20mm AF f2.8D

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

Macro Mondays - Cutter

A down and dirty image of craft scissors.

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Second photo indicating scale

HMM!

Hey all! Another Indy scene from me (although I did remember, after deciding to do this one, that the Jungle Cutter just made an about 1.5 second appearance in the entire movie - but oh well, LEGO made a set of it, so I hope y'all remember it as well! XD) - and this one's from the Crystal Skull! And yes, I know I've missed a couple movies so far - I'll be trying to correct that soon if I can, :D

Required poem, XP And if you can't figure out the tune (with a few interjections, yes, XP), what are you doing reading the description to an Indy build anyways?? XD Hahaha.

What's adventure's

Life to me?

Naught compared to,

Slicing down this tree!

Though I confess it,

Can possibly,

Be a bit drowsy

And lousy,

And frowsy -

You caught me.

Alright.

I admit it, I was asleep,

When he showed up,

Without a single peep (I was asleep) -

And through the windshield,

He let it leap!

And it blew us,

And flew plus,

Right through us,

Adieu us!

Just view us!

What? What?! What'd'ya mean he's the hero,

And not me!?!?

Proof of size pictures for the DAS.

Thanks for viewing, C&C are welcome as always! :)

(And yes, before you ask - I didn't want to cut my flex tubes, hahaha, XP)

Mini Combination Plier

Yep, the plasma cutter from Dead Space, nearly finished.

Modified it a bit because of laziness at the grip, which is Duke's.

Please tell me what you think about this! :]

Leaf-cutter bee building a nest in my collection of pencils !

I spent a great deal of my time this year in the garden with my camera to hand. I wasn't aware of the variety of insects until I started photographing them.

This bee is a leaf-cutter (Megachile Centuncularis). He had a lovely time collecting nectar from a Bidens ferulifolia.

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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Rusty Old Fishing Boat

This I. P. Hyde knife belonged to my grandfather many years ago. One of my treasures for wood engraving.

in a bee hotel.

Megachile

The Flying Lizards - Tube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPSO4Jt7zPI

Don't know why I did not post these earlier! More from the mine..

There has been a bit of fog lately. If it's not one weather extreme, it's another. I thought this looked like a hedge cutter......and I'm not taking this as a sign that I should be gardening!

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Made a baby sweater and had to cut the yarn.

Cookie cutters

ODC - 12/26/2020 - Extremely Obvious Shapes

Macro Monday theme for today was 'cutter' and I spent ages trying to take a decent shot of my sprue cutters.

In the end went with a throw away shot of my pizza cutter that we used for my daughter's tea.

HMM!

Leaf Cutter Ants carrying leaves in the rainforest in Belize. You have to look very close!

By Keith Gall, this artwork in timber in Imbil, Mary Valley, Queensland is dedicated to the pioneering timber getters and cutters in this region.