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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.
these lampions are normally orange that's why i used this background
btw it's my 1100th picture in these 100 days that i'm a flickr member.
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.
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”.
After a chat with Dennis R about possible avenues to pursue with blanking off the middle of the frame and adding en extra element to fill the middle I came up with this. A tunnel with a silhouette would have been my preference but that will have to wait.
Lens and tripod swap from modded Helios 44-2 to Samyang 14mm.
Macro Mondays - Handle
One of a pair of commemorative teaspoons to celebrate our Queen's Coronation on 2nd June 1953
One of the locks of the Grand Union Canal in Apsley, Hemel Hempstead. They are still operated manually (and you need a lot of elbow grease to do that). Leica M8, Voigtlaender NC 35/1.4.
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 .....
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
— William Penn, Fruits of Solitude
Strobist info: an SB-900 speedlight shot through a 95 cm octagonal softbox with a grid positioned above and slightly in front the model. The speedlight was triggered by the camera's built-in flash set in CLS commander mode. I attached Nikon's SG-31R IR panel in front of the camera flash to prevent it from influencing the exposure.
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.
In this kitchen we have a bar table and two seats, an induction stove and upper cabinets with no handles. A black fridgerator gives a nice counterbalance for the white surfaces.
Door handles on the left side of an ancient 1952 FX Holden.
On display at the Queensland Museum, this was an actual car owned by local legend George Kiprios who regularly drove around the streets of Brisbane with radio blaring with rock-and-roll music. The 1952 FX Holden was the first truly Australian car manufactured in Australia for Australian conditions. Over time it was the most famous Holden in Brisbane, loved for its steady presence and George's idiosyncratic customisation.
Macro-Mondays-Line Symmetry
This is the handle of my Henckel Kitchen Scissors. They are very diverse! I actually measured them using the 3" rule.
Single in January with a Sigma 17-50 f2.8, Pentax AF280t external flash.
The handle of a lattee glass, flash lit from the left through the coffee.
The grip of one of my father's screwdrivers, for #MacroMondays #Handle
Taken around 1.2x magnification. The paint splotch is about 8mm at its widest.
Taken around
Excerpt from www.victoriaonlinesightseeing.com/812-wharf-street-victor...:
812 Wharf Street – Tourism Victoria Visitor Centre
This Art Deco building at 812 Wharf Street, at the intersection of Government Street and Wharf Street, across from the Empress Hotel, is now the Tourism Victoria Visitor Centre.
This building was originally built in 1931 by the Vancouver architectural firm of Townley and Matheson – [Fred Laughton Townley (1887-1966) and Robert Michael Matheson (1887-1935)] – as a service station for Imperial Oil. It is an historically significant building, placed on Canada’s Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The building’s tower featured a 10 million candle power Sperry Beacon, intended as a navigational aid for float planes approaching Victoria’s Inner Harbour at night, which could seen up to 100 kilometers (60 miles) away. The Sperry Beacon is still in place.
In March 2015, the City of Victoria purchased 812 Wharf Street from the Province of British Columbia for $7.98 million. The City of Victoria paid these funds from its Building and Infrastructure Reserve Fund and intends to pay back the money, with interest, over a 22-year period.
At the time of the purchase, the City of Victoria stated that this building produced $980,000 in annual revenue with annual expenses of $520,000.
The 1931 design incorporated an earlier one-story brick structure built on the site in 1911 by the City of Victoria, at a cost of $11,000, as a “public comfort.” When the Imperial Oil station opened in 1931 the Daily Colonist reported that “the city comfort station….has been taken over by [Imperial Oil] and improved. It will be maintained by [Imperial Oil] under an agreement with the city.”
The Daily Colonist also reported that the new Causeway Garage offered everything required for the “fueling, storage, washing, greasing and repairing of cars, also handling the Vancouver Island agency for Stromberg carburetors and Bendix brakes……The general repair section is located on the lower floor, reached by an easy grade ramp, wide enough to accommodate two cars abreast…” This “easy grade ramp” is still evident today.