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El tema de esta semana (25 de Noviembre) es "Asa de Taza"
The theme for this week (on November 25) is "Mug Handle"
If you've known much about me for the last few months, you know at least a little bit about my wife. So I thought I'd take the time, and this lovely photo, to rave about her a bit (what better raving subjects than the ones we love, right?).
Not only is she an amazing photographer, especially for a "beginner" of sorts, but she is just an overall amazing person. Sometimes I am just blown away by the compassion she has, even when it sometimes becomes more than I can handle...in particular, her love of animals is something that astounds me every day. She'll be the first to tell you I get frustrated by it some days, but even in frustration I understand her love for those who are virtually helpless without us. Since we moved into our current apartment, she had been helping another neighbor take care of several of the strays in our complex. When those people moved out, they actually left 2 of their own cats behind, which Liina has been keeping an eye on also. Our main little buddy, Hunter has been limping a bit the last few days off and on, and this morning we took him to get checked out...when my wife thanked me, i realized how such a small thing that doesn't have any direct effect on her own life can make such a huge impact on her.
Through all the good times, and more importantly through all the bad, and really bad, times, she has been there right by my side and I must rave about her for that...she is my true love.
May 25, 2020
Macro Mondays Theme: #Handle
Subject: Portion of souvenir item from Switzerland
Subject cropped size: 2.5cm x 3.5 cm
The glass handle on the glass lid of on old crock pot. We don't use it for cooking, we use it to store unshelled peanuts in. My wife found me with my camera, in a dark room, hunched over the lid that was balanced on top of a flashlight. She just rolled her eyes, sighed and said with resignation, "Just don't break the thing,."
The #MacroMondays #Handle theme
A focus stacked macro of a miniature jug from my dear wife's collection
Taken in a light tent with a 12mm extension tube, processed in Photoshop; converted to monochrome, sepia toned with a vignette and grain added.
HMM all
HMM- the theme for today, 5/25, is handle and this one is probably the cutest of the 3-4 macros that i'll put up.
The vintage handles and lock of the front door of a 1958 apartment building in Kypseli, Athens, Greece. Back then they built them to last.
There were reports of a Great Gray Owl up north that I had to check out. Last year there was also one just a tad more North which was the first in over twenty years. To have two years in a row of Great Gray Owls in Northern California was just baffling news and a very rare!
I drove four hours North with a friend and we were very welcomed by a very kind and hospitable owner. She allowed a small group of us onto her property and we had the pleasure of photographing this majestic owl.
The first day the owl stayed fairly high and he sat stagnant at a few spots for long periods of time. He studied different holes on the ground and we all tried to guess where he might fly down to. I gambled and cheated left and knelt down based on what my intuition was resonating. I chose correctly as I was knelt down and tracked him on his way towards me. He was probably 10-15 feet away from me as he ripped his prey from the hole and carried it away into a Redwood tree where he took the time to eat it. This prey was large he couldn't just gulp it so he had to downsize it by picking it to pieces before he swallowed it.
We had a very action filled second day and came away with great memories and company.
We were the last group of people she allowed onto her property as she expressed to us that she didn't want to handle anymore large groups. We were grateful for her hospitality and the opportunity she allowed us to have.
My old garden secateurs which are well worn and old and were passed down to me from my old grandad .
HMM Everyone
Taken for Macro Mondays group, theme 'Handle'. Week 21/2020.
This is a paper knife with silver card beneath and blue card above. It's taken in natural light with an LED for highlight and is straight out of the camera except it's been cropped to 16x9.
Walking around Ribe, Denmark's (and Scandinavia's) oldest extant town, established in the first decade of the 8th century.
7DOS furniture Monday
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One of a pair of handles on the drawer of my needlework cabinet. It's the oldest piece of furniture I own - made by my dad as a gift for my mum.
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”.
A gate latch along a footpath, accessing the side yard of a vacation home. Turn, turn, turn.
Intentional failure to see the big picture
Europe, Netherlands, Den Haag, Rijnstraat, multi-ministery building (ex-VROM - Jan Hoogstad) (cut from all sides)
Displayed here is the the former VROM (Volkshuisvesting, Ruimtelijke Ordening en Milieubeheer) ministery building (Jan Hoogstad, 1992), shot from the Randstad Rail station. It’s been recently renovated and will be used by the 'Infrastructuur en Milieu' and other ministries.
When a modernist building is lit from within at night, standing outside such a building one can understand what the influential modernist architecture theorist and propagandist Siegfried Gideon meant with “durchdringung”. For him this was the quintessential property of a modernist building. On the structural level it meant that the facades are glass, enabled through the non-load bearing character of them. The load bearing is handled by the internal pillar based sketelon, which also enables left out walls and floors (creating atria - this capture here is shot right into one of the multilevel atria of the building).
The effect of all this on the eye is that it can wander through and out of the building from just one vantage point. On a metaphysical level, according to Gideon, this meant that time and space conflate – in a way one can be at many places at one time, without moving. At the height of the modernist times this space and time thing was very popular.Also in art. Checkout van Doesburg's ‘Construction in Space-Time II: here.
Shot while returning from a delightful family diner in The Hague. From winter-solstice to epiphany (‘Driekoningen’), the family centrepetal forces are at its max ;-)
Macro Mondays - Handle
One of a pair of commemorative teaspoons to celebrate our Queen's Coronation on 2nd June 1953
Bei der letzten Oltimer show sah ich auf einer Motorhaube diesen roten Griff. Ich hatte sowas noch nie gesehen.
Hier bei Flickr gibt es aber schlaue Menschen, die sowas wissen und ich bekam Diese Auskunft:
"Der rote Griff dient zum Abschalten der elektrischen Anlage des Fahrzeugs. Es wird von Rettungskräften verwendet, wenn es auf einer Rennstrecke zu Zusammenstößen und Feuer kommt. Es ist zumindest bei einigen Rennstrecken Pflichtausrüstung."
Mein Wochenende wird sehr stressig und ich wünschte mir so einen Hebel für mich und keinen Regen.....
At the last Oltimer show I saw this red handle on a bonnet. I had never seen anything like it.
But here at Flickr there are smart people who know more than I do and I got this information:
"the red handle is used to shut off the electrical system on the car. It is used by rescue workers if there is a crash and fire on a race track.It is mandatory equipment at least some race tracks."
My weekend is very stressful and I wanted such a handle for me and no rain .....
Normally I take my morning walk with my dog through the Corte Madera Marsh armed with an 18-200mm lens, but the topic for Macro Mondays is Into the Woods, so for this shot I clamped on my 105mm Micro Nikkor and slipped my SB 600 speedlight in my vest pocked and headed for a patch of raspberry bushes that are located in a wooded section of the marsh. My German shepherd Roma thought I was nuts, crawling around amidst a tangle of raspberry bushes, but I got my shot, several of them in fact, and she forgave me for making her sit quietly, while I did my thing for Macro Mondays...
I had trouble choosing between two of the shots I got, so I posted my other favorite in the first comment box below.