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An abstract shot of my old graphics card for this week's Macro Mondays theme of 'Handle with Care'. Circuit boards are notoriously vulnerable to static and are quite fragile. I used some cat toys to make an interesting background and a Canon EF100mm f/2.8L lens strapped to 52mm of extension tubes giving a magnification of roughly x1.47. 10 natural light exposures at f/5.6 combined in Zerene Stacker.
For Macro Mondays theme: Handle With Care
As usual, it took a few tries (understatement) to get the look I wanted, but I ended up bouncing a speedlite off of the silver side of my reflector for this one. It was between this one and another version. The other was bright and colorful, and this one ended up with darker tones. The texture in this one won out over the bright colors of the other, so here it is. Thanks to the Macro Mondays group admin for an inspiring theme!
A bit of a DIY effort for this weeks challenge. I made the mini boxes and a lightcube to shoot within.
The mini cardboard boxes were designed in Adobe Illustration, using a handwritting style font for the text. The net was printed onto kraft paper using my inkjet printer.
I made the lightcube from foamboard and sheets of tracing paper. Cheap LED worklights from Screwfix were used to illuminate the cube.
For the 'Macro Monday' - 'Handle with Care' challenge 26th September 2016.
I'm flimsy and will break in the wind.
Arctotheca calendula, Capeweed
Family:Asteraceae
Genus:Arctotheca
Species:A. calendula
Arctotheca calendula originates from the Cape Province in South Africa. It is naturalized in California, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand, and considered a noxious weed in some of those places. (Wikipedia).
It is widely distributed in Melbourne and on the way to Bendigo along Calder Highway.
In explore on 29.09.2016 #241
The theme for Macro Mondays is Handle With Care, so I did a two-fer - a dirty box cutter blade in a crystal bowl.
thème "Handle with care"
"Etre sur le fil du rasoir ..."
French expression meaning "Being in a risky situation"
like "walking on the razor's edge" (Merci Anne)
HMM !
Something a little different from me for today's image. The photo was taken late this evening in my kitchen at home. The view is a Macro shot of a Needle in a Spool of cotton. The image serves a dual purpose today. It is part of my photo a day as taken and edited on my iPhone, plus it is my entry for Macro Mondays - Handle With Care.
The photo was taken using a Macro Lens attachment and the standard Camera app on my iPhone 6.
First I used the app Snapseed to edit the photo. I cropped the image into a square and applied the Tonal Contrast preset. I then Increased the Sharpness a little and decreased the Highlights. After this I boosted the Saturation, Warmth and Contrast. Next I used the app PicsArt to apply the artistic Oil Painting FX. Finally I used PhotoToaster to add the Recover Highlights preset, the Vibrant FX and the Medium Dark Vignette. I then applied the Stucco texture and the Stacked frame.
September 26, 2016
Macro Mondays Theme: Handle With Care
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Buddha
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A critical comments from the knowledgeable and more experienced photographers are highly appreciated. It will help me a lot to improve my photography skills.
Thank you all for the comments, faves and views.
Happy clicking to all
Processed with Snapseed.
Pens are my hobby, and vintage Montblanc pens are my obsession. They are rare, often expensive, and fragile. They can leak and ruin carpets (it has happened more than once); they can roll off the desk and break (many bent nibs); they can spontaneously crack (celluloid crystallises over time, i.e. monomerisation). They bear a dark past – some of the most fascinating ones were made in the 1930s and 1940s.
Yet, they are resilient. They have been through wars, crossed countries and seas. Each was made on a lathe by human hands; each bears the marks of its previous users. They write beautifully, they resist time, and they are the best antidote to LLMs and mass consumerism.
Captured with MOG Kinon Superior 5cm on Lumix S1. Thanks @simple.joy for recommending this lens!
Handle With Care for Macro Mondays
I don't have a green thumb. Every time I plant flower seeds, they don't come out.
Last week, I planted new seeds in my flowerpot. Now there are some small sprouts! I wonder if they will grow well....
My tiny little Gerber, Bear Grylls pocket knife, although small, it still poses the risk of digit removal if you don't "Handle With Care"
HMM!
This is my entry for "Macro monday" theme "Handle with care". Be careful not to drop it, no one likes a knife through a mocassin! (Think Chandler in Friends) HMM all! :)
Thanks for all the comments and faves :)
Highest position on explore no.36
Final position no.51
Monarch butterfly chrysalis. This tiny, delicate immature Monarch butterfly will not survive and become an adult if it is not handled with care. On a larger scale, the entire Monarch population will not recover unless we decide to also handle it with care.
To lose this exquisite animal that has one of the most intriguing migrations on the Planet would be an indescribable tragedy.
I decided to grasp the nettle for this week’s Macro Mondays' theme, Handle with Care. Stinging nettle (urtica dioica) may be an irritant but it does have a range of medicinal properties, being an antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-ulcer, astringent and analgesic. Not to miss out the wise words from across the breakfast table, “Don’t forget its use in cookery, as nettle soup”.
Macro Mondays Theme: Handle With Care
This is a delicate wine glass that I got as wedding presents. This one broke whilst somebody was drying it after being washed! We only have 3 small ones left from a set of 8, but at least we still have 7 large ones left!!! Not that great considering it was only 13 years ago! Complete with dust, as it happened a little while ago and have yet to dispose of it and I wasn't wiping it in case I cut myself!!
HMM to one and all and have a great week. Really appreciate all your favourites, comments and views.
Explored on 26th September 2016, highest position 27
Macro Monday
Theme: Handle with Care
A tiny little horse's head made out of tiny little pearl buttons, stitched by hand onto the jacket of the Pearly Prince of Highgate. I can see a few have already fallen off.
"Hmm everyone"
Fuse box... always freaks me out when I have to screw with replacing these albeit extremely rare but still, I always "handle with care". HMM
This is an old iodine bottle I found a while ago and kept because I thought it would make an interesting photography subject. This week's theme is an ideal time to use it!
HMM!
Someone posted a picture of one of these on Facebook last week. She mentioned they were small, no taller than 1-2". The next day while walking out to the garden I stopped and took a closer look at some white spots on a dirt spot in the yard and sure enough there it was. But mine are only a couple mm big. I took a picture of a few with my macro lens on my phone. The next day I went back with my DSLR and all the ones I had shot had deflated. So, I knew, they need to be handled with care, I had pulled grass out around them and put a lens tube around them. Oops, but maybe it would have happened anyway.
From Wikipedia:
Ricin is a highly toxic, naturally occurring lectin (a carbohydrate-binding protein) produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis. A dose of purified ricin powder the size of a few grains of table salt can kill an adult human. The median lethal dose (LD50) of ricin is around 22 micrograms per kilogram of body weight if the exposure is from injection or inhalation (1.78 milligram for an average adult).
Shot taken for the Marco Mondays Group.