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This is probably about 60 years old. Mum and Dad's tree.
Don't know what a basket of mushrooms signifies, but then again, a lot of decorations have no real Christmas significance.
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Heirloom Rings:
10 Colours
Mix & Match Each Finger
CZ Slim
CZ Muscle
CZ Male
Belleza Jake
Material Enabled
Original Mesh
Copy & Mod
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This is an in-camera focus stacked image of a 19th century pocket watch given to a great-great aunt of mine. It was shot with an E-M1, Olympus 60mm macro and a portable light box setup my wife bought me. I used Irfanview to clone out dust on the black foam and do minor color/contrast corrections. f6.3, 1/8 second, ISO 200.
bushels and bushels of apples today at the farmer's market. i bought some cortlands to make more apple crisp. mmm . . . apple crisp.
My grandmother started a tradition when I was very young, to give each grandchild a special ornament on Christmas. Being the first born of my generation, I have the most. She did it from 1982 to 2013. This is one of my favorites.
Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 154/365
When we moved into this townhouse 7 years ago we planned to use the living room as a craft room. Instead, it became storage, not the best use of space. The only place we had to sit together and watch TV or movies was a little two-man cave in the basement. Now we're in the process of discarding things we don't need and moving other things around so this space can fulfill its necessary function as a living room. After lunch we cleared the remaining junk off the floor. This is what has to pass for clean and tidy in our house. I took the opportunity to photograph the two hutches.
The one on the left was Mimi's (my paternal grandmother). It survived an apartment flood and is not in great shape, but still functional. It contains Danny's mother's china tea service since she passed away in 2018. The antique hutch on the right originally belonged to a great great grandmother on my mother's side. It still has the date chalked on the back, 1900, with her husband's name and address on Pelissier Street in Windsor, the same street where I lived until age 7. At that time the hutch belonged to the original owner's daughter-in-law, my great grandmother, Dommy, who lived one block over on Victoria Avenue, across the street from my public school. Dommy and Poppy used to wave from their front window when I walked home. My mother inherited the hutch, but Dommy gave her hand-painted tea service directly to me in 1990. She died in 1996, age 102. Mom died in 2008. Since 2012 Dommy's china has lived at home in its hutch again.
Here is a photo and more details about the China set: flic.kr/p/2hiSuwm
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Finally found one of these tiny blossoms that wasn't aimed at the ground! Not only cute, it leads to great eggplant!
This tree typically doesn't stay in bloom this long... likely on account of the colder weather. The bees were making a racket around it today.
strobist info: the tomato is on a skewer to float it, one speedlight with a grid is centered behind and under the tomato, the light is being bounced off a soft reflector positioned above the tomato, there is a white card in front to provide a little fill on the underside
It feels a little over complicated but with shinny reflective surfaces like the tomato skin a nice soft bounced light seems to work pretty well.
My mom's Christmas gift! Pattern from the Feb 2011 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting called Row by Row, slightly modified.
Turn your head sideways for this one! I didn't realize it wasn't oriented right for the picture.
Heirloom by Joel Dewberry, 1 design roll,
+ White Bella Basic from my stash.
I have been carrying my Polaroid Land Camera around all week, in honor of 'Roid Week, hoping to catch an interesting shot to share to the group photo pool. I even brought it with when I went grocery shopping at Safeway tonight. As I whipped it out to shoot these pretty tomatoes, the nearby produce guy stocking the shelves said, "You know, you're not supposed to take photos in the store without management permission. When I lived in California we never let anyone photograph anything...except for this bus of Asian businessmen who would come in with cameras and take lots of photos. But they were the only ones."
I shrugged and said, "I did not know that. I don't mind asking the manager." He said, "Wait, I'll call him. Do you grow heirloom tomatoes or something?" He admired my 1950s Land Camera. "Nope, "I said, explaining "Polaroid Week" and just simply that I liked the combination of colors on his display
Produce guy disappeared for a minute or two and then returned, waving his arm high and giving me the thumbs-up to snap away.
Later after paying for my groceries I peeled apart the developed photo and brought it back to show the produce guy. "Nice. Great eye," he said.
We have a neighbor who is a great vegetable gardner, and we have been the beneficiary of some of his fine work. Today he brought over some fresh picked veggies including these heirloom tomatoes. The only place I see tomatoes like this is from someone's garden or at a farmer's market, and it's a shame, because they taste so much better than store bought. Maria and I are incompetent at growing tomatoes, and we are so appreciative of these. In return we give him oranges from our tree, which puts out some pretty good fruit, again, much better than store bought.
This was lit very simply with one YN560 in a 24 inch soft box, camera left and above, in front at about 7 o'clock. Fill light came from a hand mirror at camera right. I have a total of 7 strobes, but it's very seldom that I use more than 3 at one time, because I just don't think it's necessary for the kind of stuff I shoot. Three of my strobes are Nikon flashes for when I need TTL, but for this kind of home studio stuff, I prefer manual flash, which has the added advantage of being far cheaper than the expensive Nikon or Canon TTL flashes. The strobe, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I did use a polarizer on this image because I was trying to cut down on the highlights on the reflective skin.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash, and the equipment that I use. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
Man holding a stick with a Wologai typical carved.
Wologai heritage village, Ende district, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara.
This mais and tomato mandala celebrates the harvest...I'm using it for my desktop background right now.