I've been pointing the Laowa 65mm x2 lens at quite a few things and tonight was no exception! I have a lamp with a sexy Edison bulb in it and I was trying to get ultra close with the lens. Took several attempts as they are moving all the time but I marvel at this lens and the detail it gets.

Filaments - Capturing high quality portraits of wildlife is something that I really enjoy. Even though Red-tailed Hawks are common, so common in fact, they are often overlooked as subjects, they can be difficult to photograph up close.

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to photograph a juvenile bird recently. I was able to capture this closeup showcasing the beauty of the feather filaments, beak, and eye. The Nikon D850 really shines for wildlife portraiture - with both zoom lenses and prime lenses. I've also been loving DxO PureRaw - it really renders my RAW files so much cleaner and does a much more natural job cleaning up noise than Topaz Denoise (also a great program, but applies default sharpening even at a setting of 0, which causes artifacts).

View large for feather detail.

Species: Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

Location: Santa Clara County, CA, USA

Equipment: Nikon D850 + Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 ED VR, Handheld

Settings: 1/160s, ISO: 360, f/5.6 @500mm, +0.3 EV

A macro of the filament inside a small light bulb. The filament frames the focused center of the bulb. Taken with a Canon 60mm USM macro lens. Type L for a better view.

Lamp filament Laowa 25mm f2.8 @ f16

3.5x magnification

The filaments are outside our double-paned kitchen window, which had been cleaned inside, but not outside. At the moment that I snapped this, the wind was causing the filaments to dance wildly. I was surprised that the image actually had any defined lines.

“This World” by Mary Oliver

I would like to write a poem about the world that has in it

nothing fancy.

But it seems impossible.

Whatever the subject, the morning sun

glimmers it.

The tulip feels the heat and flaps its petals open and becomes a star.

The ants bore into the peony bud and there is a dark

pinprick well of sweetness.

As for the stones on the beach, forget it.

Each one could be set in gold.

So I tried with my eyes shut, but of course the birds

were singing.

And the aspen trees were shaking the sweetest music

out of their leaves.

And that was followed by, guess what, a momentous and

beautiful silence

as comes to all of us, in little earfuls, if we’re not too

hurried to hear it.

As for spiders, how the dew hangs in their webs

even if they say nothing, or seem to say nothing.

So fancy is the world, who knows, maybe they sing.

So fancy is the world, who knows, maybe the stars sing too,

and the ants, and the peonies, and the warm stones,

so happy to be where they are, on the beach, instead of being

locked up in gold.

Filaments

Electrified filament and there was light.

Happy birthday dear Renee! aka Skagitrenee.

My dear soul sis is having her birthday on the 27th of December and I dedicate this creation to her.

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A filament burns up in a smashed light bulb. Take away the inert gas or vacuum inside a bulb and it burns up.

I refuse to comment on how many light bulbs I went through before I managed to smash one without damaging the filament.

Strobist: 1/200 f/7.1 SB900 1/16 into 63sm square softbox behind with black cardboard over to create rimlight triggered via cable. Camera on rapid shutter. 90v filament voltage.

Finally, after weeks of cloud I managed to catch a quick glimpse of the Sun.

The filament is around 300,000 km long.

Lunt LS152Tha/B34/DSII at 80mm and Grasshopper 3 camera.

Filament between two wires in a 60W lightbulb.

Not sure I ever shared this one, but a nice bolt of lightning from a dying supercell south of Lamar, Colorado back on June 6th, 2017 with some tour guests!

Up close with the filaments of a cool bulb

Another photo of frost from 2021.

These are modern bulbs with an old filament style.

Filament of an incandescent light bulb, 2000 Watts, Tungsten

A knew I had one of these old school (and now probably illegal!) bulbs kicking around somewhere waiting for such a moment! For todays Macro Monday theme of Silhouette

Strobist... 580exii high camera centre at white background 1/8 24mm

In the droplet-my neighbor's home,garage door side.

On the filament of a Caesalpinia gilliesii.

Thanks for the comments and faves and thanks Explore.

Jun 6, 2013 #171.

Break the bulb, release the inert gas and switch on!

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I have always felt that clouds would represent softness. This montage includes this mornings sunrise (2 photos) plus the spun filiament arrangement of a flower I found recently.

“Do not be hardened by the pain

and cruelty of this world.

Be strong enough to be gentle,

to be soft and supple like running water,

gracefully bending around sudden turns,

lithely waving in strong winds,

freely flowing over sharp rocks,

all the while quietly sculpting

this hard world into ever deeper beauty," L.R. Knost

I had to fix my microscope lamp.

I took a macro of the lamp filament for this week's submission.

I used my Nikon, F mount with a T mount adapter, T mount adapter to Microscope eyepiece adapter, and slipped it into the eyepiece of my B&L Stereo Scope. No "camera" lens used.

I then used low voltage to heat the filament to produce the "radiant" glow. The two electrodes (white solder connections) are about 1/4" apart.

Sometimes the photo finds YOU!!

Palme I me

Pa MI

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It starts with proof reading of an E-Mail, and it ends with all plants on my father`s watering lists for each day they are on leave are crossed out by me and if it went well all plants and all fish are still living. But also otherwise I would get some souvenirs :-)

Henryk Wieniawski: "Souvenir de Posen" (op.3 for violin and piano / youtube)

Part of: "My Memory Photograph Album" and "Weaving Diary Tapestry Aktion Tagebuch Teppich Tapisserie Tagebuch weben 365 days project 2: 2015 2016" 4.

Mai 2016: Souvenir Italien - timeline zeitliche Abfolge golden filament goldener Faden: 1. 1. - 17. 1. red thread roter Faden 18. 1. - 9. 2., led lichterkette: ab 10. 2. Fastenbeginn - Esoterik Entlarvung Lichtnahrungsprozess ab 2. 3.: transparenter Faden: Fortsetzung Licht-Fasten. ab 27. 3. green wire grüner Draht Frühling spring, ab 24. 4. transparent yarn Garn weiß durchsichtig unsichtbar Karwoche 2 (orthodox): Kokos, Hokum Lichtfasten, ab 1. Mai grüner Draht green filament // Still Life in the kitchen stillleben in der küche

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Something I have wanted to do for ages. But I can pick umpteen holes in this. Trying to even get the right sort of bulb was not the easiest - most are LED or not dimmable. Then the bulb would have worked better rotated 180 degrees. Getting rid of dust was another nightmare. So don't look closely ..Lol! So I think I will have another try at this sometime in future.

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The filament of a light bulb at 1766 Brewery in Plymouth, NH.

Old light bulb I came across at the streetcar museum.

RX100M3 25mm | f3.2 | 1/125 sec | ISO 125

Processed with VSCO Kodak Ectar 25

Small candle bulb

Macro Peacock Feather

A Macro Mondays submission in the topic "contained". This glowing filament of a small incandescent light bulb is contained within its glass enclosure.

Golden Hour Meets Blue Hour at Sunset - Early

Prominences on the solar limb - composite of two images, one exposed for the chromosphere the other for the prominences

Imaged on 20th September 2015