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MacroMonday
12/12/2011
Theme: On the Road
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One of the classic lines from the original Muppet Movie (1979): Fozzie and Kermit set off for Hollywood in a studebaker, and singing "Movin' Right Along". Kermit tells Fozzie to " turn left if you come to a fork in the road". Cut to a wide shot of a giant Fork stuck in the road. :) (Moving Right Along)
I'm a big Muppets fan and enjoyed the latest movie. So go see that instead of sparkling vampires.
This is my runner-up photo for this week’s 52F assignment, which has the theme “What I Eat.” Spaghetti and meatballs were on the menu, so I asked my wife to set aside some leftovers for my shoot. I used a fogger for this photo, but I ultimately chose to submit the version without the steam as my 52F entry.
Before going to Fort Whyte Alive, I stopped at the Forks and got a few shots in. Was about 8:30 and the fog was still pretty thick. Normally from this point of view you'd see across the Red River and the ruins of St. Boniface Cathedral.
The fork-tailed woodnymph is a species of hummingbird... found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.(Wikipedia)
For MacroMondays theme "Mysterious"
I almost missed this weeks MM theme, I just couldn't come up with anything. Than today I had this little old siver fork lying on my kitchen table when the setting sun hit it and made it glow like gold. I grabbed my camera and snapped a couple of photos. In five minutes the light was gone and my fork was silver again :)
Happy MM
Although not a very good shot - I wanted to show how similar the African Fork-tailed Drongo is to the Aussie Spangled Drongo. Day 1 Kruger National Park, South Africa - late afternoon
Today the Hereios of the We’re Here! Group are shooting Fork Art, because Ruthlesscrab spotted that, on this day in 1864, the Great Sheffield Flood devastated parts of Sheffield, England, when the Dale Dyke Dam broke as its reservoir was being filled for the first time.
Ruth points out that Sheffield's famous cutlery-making trade was first mentioned in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Sheffield – aka “Steel City” – was once the steel-making capital of the world.
Fork in the Provo River, Utah, just above Jordanelle Reservoir. Most of the flow is frozen, but the river still runs through it at the center of the icepack.
Shot with the Pentax 645Z, 28-45MM wide-angle zoom at F/8 and 36MM.
The original photo was dark and the background wasn't balanced. So I did some photoshop. Changed the overall colour to have green tint.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this wonderful plant on my way to Hail, in the north of Saudi Arabia.
The world is full of new things. This gives me a great deal of pleasure.
Things like this strengthen my belief in the Creator who created all these wonderful things. Praised be Allah, the One and Only.
خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ بِغَيْرِ عَمَدٍ تَرَوْنَهَا ۖ وَأَلْقَىٰ فِي الْأَرْضِ رَوَاسِيَ أَن تَمِيدَ بِكُمْ وَبَثَّ فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ دَابَّةٍ ۚ وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَنبَتْنَا فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍ كَرِيمٍ (10) He created the heavens without any pillars that ye can see; He set on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with you; and He scattered through it beasts of all kinds. We send down rain from the sky, and produce on the earth every kind of noble creature, in pairs.
هَٰذَا خَلْقُ اللَّهِ فَأَرُونِي مَاذَا خَلَقَ الَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِ ۚ بَلِ الظَّالِمُونَ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ (11) Such is the Creation of Allah: now show Me what is there that others besides Him have created: nay, but the Transgressors are in manifest error. [Qur'an 31: 10-11]
Shot with a Voigtländer Perkeo II
80mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar lens
Ilford HP5+ 400 film
Shot at EI 800, pushed +1
Developed in the Ego Lab using XTOL (1:1, 9:30 min, agitated each minute at 77F)
Scanned on a Coolscan 9000ED
Dining fork on a white cloth. Focus on the prongs of the fork.
Nikon D700 with the AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens, hand-held.
Nice restaurant find, captured with a Fuji X100's.
Processed in Aperture with a new self created center focus preset.
The lower South Fork is seen through the afternoon haze. Castle Rock sits near the South Fork of the Shoshone River southwest of Cody Wyoming. Castle Rock is an erosional remnant of volcanic dikes that intruded into the sedimentary country rock. Explorer, mountain man and trapper, John Colter, passed this landmark in 1807 while exploring the wilderness that was to become northern Wyoming. He is believed to be the first European-American to visit this feature. The volcanic dike, as well as the nearby stacked lava flows, flow breccias and debris flows that makeup the mountains behind Castle Rock are part of the Absaroka Volcanics Supergroup. This group of igneous rocks are the remnant of a volcanic field that was active in the Eocene between 53 and 43 million years ago.