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Adrienne sipped her drink, fidgeting with the hem of her borrowed top. Her eyes stayed fixed on Kayla, trying to read beneath her calm exterior.
Kayla didn’t answer right away. She lowered herself onto the sofa beside her, wine glass resting in her hands. Her gaze drifted—unfocused, burdened—before she spoke.
“When I said we were sent to find others like us,” she murmured, “I meant it. We needed help, urgently. That was just one part of the mission. But my team…” Her voice caught, and she drew in a breath. “They didn’t survive. Finding you… that was luck. Nothing else.”
Adrienne stiffened. The calm confidence Kayla usually carried had cracked, if only slightly—
Kayla stared into her glass but didn’t drink. “In my time, the reptilians began to rule openly. They didn’t bother to hide anymore. They fed on humanity—drained us like cattle. We fought back with everything we had. Fusion weapons. Desperation. We won… if you want to call it that.”
She sat silently then finally looked up, eyes dark. Her voice faltered… “The cost was everything. Cities reduced to ash. Most of the human race gone in a blink. The cataclysm we created was so massive that the earth’s crust shifted. The few of us left alive crawled into the earth to escape what we’d done.
Yet some reptilians survived. They too retreated underground to their subterranean cities.
Several million years have wiped everything I knew away. The human race had to start over yet again.
Adrienne felt a chill settle under her skin as Kayla recounted the last days of her civilization. This didn’t sound rehearsed. It sounded like someone trying to speak through a survivor’s guilt.
“It’s happened before,” Kayla said. “Five times. This world is on the cusp of it happening again.
Every few millennia, the reptilians rebuild their numbers. Their life span is 1,517 years—precise, calculated. Before one generation dies, a new one is bred and raised in secret, ready to take their place.”
Adrienne took a long drink of her wine, her eyes never leaving Kayla.
“By our estimates,” Kayla continued, “they’ve just laid their eggs. Billions of them. Each female can produce up to thirty eggs. They do it in one place… one big nest.
Then she turned to face Adrienne. Her voice, for the first time, trembled slightly.
This civilization won’t survive another cycle. That’s why I’m here. To stop the cycle.
before it begins again.”
She paused. “I can’t do it alone. I need your help to find the nest—and destroy it. Before they hatch.”
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Macro Mondays - Relaxation
These little spinning toys are meant to relax the mind. They came up here only a few months ago as a must-have among schoolchildren.
Mouse locks onto an eerie crying sound coming from a tanglewood south of the pasture.
A second later she and Fidget sprinted to the fence and told the world about it.
Most likely Chrysis ignita. Doing that run around then stop for 1/10 of a second, fidget, and run off again thing they do. Such a hard wasp to shoot.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. I fired this shot off at arms length with a hopeful aim and had just a split second to get the shot as he stopped fidgeting right after I caught this. I just love the faceless story in this shot - enjoy!
I wasn't going to post today, but when we got back Ethans new Fidget Spinner arrived in the post so couldn't resist!
HMM! Theme: Intentional Blur
Taken for Macro Monday Squared Circle theme. This is a Kinetic spinning toy (1 3/4" round). When you spin it, the bottom stays still (it's flat) and the top spins and makes you dizzy if you stare at it. lol.. It's def mesmerizing. I tried to make the surrounding frame look like movement, but wound up with it looking kinda a vinyl record. Anyhoo.. hope you like. HMM! :-)
Fidget spinners became big in 2017. Supposedly they can help people burn off nervous energy.
For Macro Mondays theme "Motion Blur"
An artistic rendering of a macro view of a Pop It Topper bubble fidget toy. The frame represents a span of two-inches across.
Those who are not familiar with Pop It Toppers can click the below link to a Wikipedia article about them (with pictures). The version I photographed (in its entirety) is a very small topper with only four bubbles on it.
Strobist info:
The scene was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights and a steady LED light. The SB900s were placed CL/CR and fired in Manual mode @ 1⁄32 power through 24" gridded soft boxes and triggered by PocketWizard Plus Xs. The LED was placed @ 11-o'clock.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D(AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro) with 12mm + 20mm extension tubes attached.
Fidget Pants.
A day of indecision that paid off.
I expected 6J37 to run early given the industrial action affecting Northern today.
My first choice of location was Lamb Roe crossing north of Whalley, but cloud was sinking south and so I shifted to the top of Wilpshire Bank on the bridge at Ramsgreave, but cloud was coming in from the west too.
So having seen that it had passed Clitheroe, I quickly moved to Wilpshire Tunnel where the sun was still in the V shaped wedge between the cloud advancing from the west and north. It would probably have been okay at Vicarage Lane too.
56051 and 56094 emerge from the cool and gloom of Wilpshire Tunnel with 6J37, 12.52 Carlisle Yard to Chirk.
I've wanted to bag this shot before the vegetation becomes too rampant. Job done.
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Today is an orange day at Color my World Daily and the theme at Crazy Tuesday is something in motion. Who remembers the time when fidget spinners were a thing ? I do for sure !! My older son was about 7-8 years old at the time and the only thing he wanted in life was a fidget spinner. Apparently every cool kid in school had at least one fidget spinner !!! The damn thing was so popular that every store in a 100 km (and I'm not even kidding !!) radius from my house was « out of stock » for fidget spinners. We had to put our names in at least 6 different stores on a waiting list for a fidget spinner !!! And the price of that thing was around 20 $ (Canadian dollars). We ended up having quite a collection of fidget spinners. Our whole families (grand parents from both sides included), where on the hunt for fidget spinners ! At one point, I was under impression that there was way more fidget spinners than people on this planet !! Today, I can’t remember last time I saw a fidget spinner in a store. Maybe at a dollar store somewhere… But what happened to all that fidget spinners madness ?? And, what happened to all those fidget spinners ?
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Title says it all. Lighting provided by kitchen sink light and flashlight. The toughest part to this set-up was getting the mirror clean! Made for the Macro Mondays group, reflection theme - HMM.
55mm Micro NIKKOR f/2.8
A macro view of a fidget spinner. The frame represents a span of 1¼ - inches across.
Strobist info:
The scene was illuminated by two Nikln SB900 speedlights, CL/CR, fired in Manual mode @ 1⁄16 power through 24" gridded soft boxes and triggered by PocketWizard Plus Xs.
Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar (red MC) 50mm f/1.8 with 20mm extension tube attached.
For Macro Mondays - a small (6.5 cm) fidget spinner on a black, gloss floor tile illuminated with a combination of window light and LED lighting. A single image processed in Lightroom (sharpening, contrast, detail, vibrance, saturation) and Photoshop (dust and fibre removal).
Laowa 58mm f2.8 CA-Dreamer 2X Macro - 4 Seconds @ f/8.0
Image is .65" Wide. This is a small 'Koosh' ball - www.kingsoopers.com/p/koosh-ball-classic-3-pack-purple-gr...
For the motion blur challenge today, I balanced a colorful fidget spinner (2 1/4") on my fingertip and used a slower shutter speed.
I normally handhold the camera, but had to use a tripod and used the cool Wireless Remote Control to control the camera for focusing and pressing the shutter button. A fun time! :-) HMM!
Construction:
fidget spinner on a mirror
sidelight from the right
red paper in the background reflection
turning fidget spinner
press the trigger and wait
HMM!
Credits:
📍OMY I'm Dying! Sick Fidget -- Now at Kustom9 Event
📍OMY Fluffo Tissues -- Now at Kustom9 Event
📍Derdieb / Ugly -- Now at MANCAVE
📍[Vile] - Innocent Guilty Sofa (XxX + Friends) -- Now at Mainstore
Fidget spinner doing it's best to square the circle, but although getting giddy .... all those endeavours were alas in vain. 😵🍥💫
Love & Peace everyone!
Please stay safe! HMM.
Happy Macro Monday.
I found Fidget lying in the pasture yesterday afternoon, unable to get up, wagging her tail weakly as I hurried over. She was one sick doggie.
We lifted her into the Jeep and took her to the emergency vet clinic a couple of towns south of us.
After hours of tests and rule-outs, it turned out that she had a galloping urinary tract infection. She improved enormously within a few hours of starting on Bactrim.
Back home, I made her a fresh haypile in the pasture, and she tucked right in. It's what she wants when she's not feeling well.
Fidget has had a rough year, but she's always a good soldier and a sweet, stoic patient. She's seen above giving Molly a smooch this afternoon. Later she licked Molly's face as M was pressing the plunger of her allergy shot.
She's four-and-a-half years old.
Construction:
fidget spinner on a mirror
sidelight from the right
red paper in the background reflection
turning fidget spinner
press the trigger and wait ;-)
raw converter - darktable
Coal Tit - Periparus ater
Adel Dam Nature Reserve - England
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Focus stack (3 images) Shot with single off-camera strobe (Leica SF60/SF C1 trigger) bounced of 32 inch shite umbrella on overhead boom.
Happy Macro Monday! My "trinket" is a little fidget spinner i got on spadina, in toronto last summer. it caught my eye and the kid in me couldnt resist! My son has used fidget toys and bracelets for a long time, for focus and anti stress mechanisms. they are everywhere in our home. the craze inspired him to want to collect some more. and i guess i got into it too. it sits on my desk on top of a little mirror someone gave me once. i am not much of a knick knack person. i love jewelry but dont wear it often. as i walked around my apartment looking for a suitable trinket for this macro monday challenge, my shiny little mommy fidget caught my eye.
(ps my son is a leo and i am a virgo, so the angle is significant, which is partly why i chose this one for my submission.)
Happy Macro Monday!
Seen here in her summer outfit. We clipped her extra short since she won't be spending nights out next winter and as part of her "hot spot" (canine pyoderma) treatment.
For comparison, her winter gear is here.
Here we're getting a look at the G12 in less than optimal conditions. It's shot raw at ISO 200, 140mm-equivalent focal length and f/8. That's the worst aperture and the worst focal length in terms of resolution. I ran out of zoom and had to crop, so we're using only 40% of the sensor's pixels. The contrast range is pretty brutal, and I used no NR or sharpening.
Chroma noise is the nemesis of compact cameras at increased ISO, and there's very little of it here. Luminance noise and lens blur make the image look a little soft even in the center of the frame. Even so, I think you could wring an 8"x10" print out of this image without noticing too much wrong with it.
So far every picture has required 5%-10% amber (Wratten #85) filtration to restore the color balance. The color seems OK otherwise.
Key word fidget.
Macro Mondays Yellow theme 2020. Moderators: 2.75" wide.
Boise Cascade celebrating 63 years now. I've been with them 28
Heaven! At this point if the whole expedition ended here I would have been happy! Standing on the roof of the world looking at the St Jonsfjorden Glacier listening to the sounds of the Arctic breathing in fresh and icy air. Eduardo our guide suggested we all stop, sit and listen and after a couple of minutes of people fidgeting everyone stopped........................the Arctic silence is like no other, other worldly, I could have stayed hear forever, but alas we had to move back down the mountain as the zodiacs could be seen like busy bees far below gathering to take us back to the Plancius.