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#113 - Useful

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.

Making my Christmas cards.

115 Pictures in 2015 ... #4. A Craft

Sony A850

Sigma 50mm DG Macro lens

I was really surprised to find a female Leaf Cutter Bee foraging for pollen on a Dandelion in late October (2021). I thought they would have been long gone for the year.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F13, 1/200, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT, E-TTL metering, -2/3 FEC. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI and Clarity in that order.

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

The Lightning Cutter of Viken.

Crazy Tuesday theme: Chocolate 😊

Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊

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

Please do not use or reproduce this image on Websites/Blog or

any other media without my explicit permission.

© All Rights Reserved Kingsley Davis

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

Bamboo should be cut before sunrise in order to produce the best quality if it should be used as building material.

I processed this view in an antique style. I like it as a change of pace.

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

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

Probably a leaf cutter Bee inspecting my Bee hotel

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.

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.

This male Leaf Cutter Bee (Megachile sp) was only in my Lavender for a few days, so I tried to get a lot of different compositions.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (over 3x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the fill for this shot), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC, second curtain sync). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I'm holding on to the Lavender stem with my left hand, and resting the lens on that same hand to keep the scene steady.

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

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.

And C-Clamp

Embroidery scissors

HMM

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

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

I found this Leaf Cutter Bee early in the morning and the dew was slowing its metabolism down. While photographing it the critter woke up, started to forage, and then did some pre-flight maintenance. Very common for an insect to clean itself before leaving a flower. The tricky part about this shot was getting all of the important bits in focus when the depth of field was only about .6mm thick and the critter was moving.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to 2x) + 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.

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

A metal cookie cutter seen edge on.

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

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.

...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

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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A Megachile Leaf-Cutter Bee rest on a False Sunflower Monday morning.

Second photo indicating scale