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My attempt at the "Looking Close… on Friday" theme "Spider and/or Spider Web"
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Shot with a Tomioka "Copal-E36C 55 mm F 4" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5
This magenta Christmas bauble decorated with white flowers with rainbow pink centres was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the flowers, the larger of the petals which are 10mm and their centres which are 4mm. The flower centres are raised cups and are imported from France. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday!” is “reflection on black”.
I thought that this bauble with its colourful magenta colour might look nice against a black background and reflected in a mirror.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
When I was twelve, I entered a drawing competition, and I won my first set of Derwent pencils: a tin case of 36. As a designer and illustrator as well as a photographer, over the years I have acquired several different sets of Derwents for different purposes, including my beloved Derwent Studio Pencil set of 72 which I use predominantly these days for designing clothes.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 9th of April is “pencil points”. What better way to meet the theme (although now I look at them, some are pointier than others) than with my beloved Derwent Studio Pencil set? Colours in this photo from bottom left to top right are: Number 25 Dark Violet, Number 33 Light Blue, Number 45 Mineral Green, Number 48 May Green, Number Zink Yellow, Number 11 Spectrum Orange, Number 15 Geranium Lake, Number 22 Magenta, Number 17 Pink Madder Lake, Number 19 Madder Carmine, Number 23 Imperial Purple, Number 29 Ultramarine and Number 32 Spectrum Blue. The pencil point printed ribbon was a Christmas gift from a friend who gave me a whole box of ribbons to be creative with.
Derwent, or the Derwent Cumberland Pencil Company, is a manufacturer of pencils and other stationery. The business began in 1832 in Cumberland under the name of Banks, Son & Co. The company was bought by Acco UK and became a brand of their product range.
In front of the window, that is why you see the little spots, it's not specks on my lens :)
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Enough of these caps around.
Happy looking close....on Friday
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“After the ball is over,
After the break of morn,
After the dancers' leaving
After the stars are gone;
Many a heart is aching
If you could read them all
Many the hopes that have vanished
After the ball.”
Lyrics from “After the Ball is Over”, a popular 1891 song written by Charles K. Harris.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 4th of June is “one single petal”. The day that I saw the theme for this week, it was a bright, sunny autumnal day with big blue skies and glorious warm sunshine. I have a large camellia sasanqua hedge in the rear of my garden consisting of six different varieties which is a mass of blooms at present. I went hunting beneath the hedge for fallen petals and came across this Pink Plantation petal, which sitting in the shade, still had dew drops upon it from the crisp morning, sparkling like diamonds. Glistening in the sunlight like it was, the petal put me in mind of Hans Christian Andersen’s faerie tale of “Little Ida’s Flowers” where Ida’s flowers attend a ball every night, thus explaining why every day they grow more and more drooping and bedraggled. I hope you like my choice of one single petal.
Vigorous and fast growing, Camellia Sasanqua “Plantation Pink” is an upright evergreen shrub with masses of large sweetly scented single to semi-double, soft pink flowers and a wonderful centre of golden yellow stamens. The blooms occur over quite a long period between March and June in the Southern Hemisphere which makes them very popular. They are often used for hedges or to cover walls.
All the bookmarks that I use are these cards given out by shops, organisations or tradespeople. I have collected these from my most recent reads.
My partner saw this buzzard at the edge of a road in the depths of the night. The buzzard was limping and dragging a wing. My partner parked the car, crossed the road and picked the buzzard up. We phoned The Hawk Trust who advised us to keep it in a cardboard box in a quiet place overnight. The Hawk Trust arranged for us to take it to a veterinarian practice the following day. After a few days, the Trust took it to its own hospital. This is the only photograph I took, with the flash switched off, so as to cause no further distress. I hadn’t been so close to a bird of prey before and its beauty made a huge impression on me. I don’t think this story had a happy ending. The Trust told us that the bird had severe injuries.
Looking close... on Friday! theme : Raindrops or Dewdrops
Raindrops renew and enhance
the beauty of everything they come
into contact with.
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The Easter Bunny can be traced back to Thirteenth Century, pre-Christian Germany, where people worshiped several gods and goddesses. The Teutonic deity Eostra was the goddess of spring and fertility, and feasts were held in her honor on the Vernal Equinox. Her symbol was the rabbit because of the animal’s high reproduction rate. In the Eighteenth Century, the tradition of an egg-laying hare called “Osterhase” or “Oschter Haws” also came out of Germany.
Easter Eggs represent the birth of new life, and it’s believed that decorating eggs for Easter also dates back to the Thirteenth Century. Hundreds of years ago, churches had their congregations abstain from eggs during Lent, allowing them to be consumed again on Easter.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 8th of April is “eggs in black and white” as we draw nearer to Easter 2022. Therefore, I am celebrating with Peter Rabbit, who whilst not the Easter Bunny, is a well loved character from my childhood. "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, published in 1901, that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around, the garden of Mr. McGregor. This Peter Rabbit egg-shaped lidded tin was a gift from a friend Easter two years ago. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile
Curvy curls in her hair with round curvy flowers on her dress on a curvy background. 🌼🌸Madame Alexander Wendy Loves Hello Kitty City doll wearing Sheer Joy dress. 💕💙💕🌸🍭
The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday” on the 19th of March is “white and red”.
After using a pair of beautiful 1:12 size miniature red slippers from my miniatures collection for last week’s “sprinkles” theme, I thought I might use them again, along with a second pair of miniature red slippers and a white parasol for this week’s theme.
Both pairs of shoes are a centimetre in height and length. They are painted and are made of metal. The parasol is five centimetres long and is made of white satin and lace with a bow and a metal handle.
Looking close... on Friday! theme : Dots and Stripes
For this photoshoot, I decided to use the pegs standing up instead of on a line so that the little hearts are in the correct orientation. Since Autumn is my favorite season, the maple leaves here were a natural complement for this picture.
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Chestnuts, those needles are pretty sharp !!
Happy looking close....on Friday!
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My grandmother had a sewing machine she used for alterations. My mother also had a sewing machine. I learned at a young age to use my mom’s sewing machine to made a few pillows out of scrap fabric.
I loved being creative from a young age and once I got to middle school would frequently use my elective credits for Home Economic classes. I continued to take those classes through high school. I got good enough sewing to make myself a few shirts and a 3-piece suit. When I graduated high school, the Home Ec. Department awarded me with a small Home Ec. Scholarship (the first boy in the history of my school to earn one).
My grandmothers sewing supplies were passed to my mom. And when my mom stopped sewing, she gave me her machine and sewing box. This collection of buttons likely has a few buttons over 60 years old. My grandmother would have been tickled to see this photo.
I never through out a button. You never know when one will come in handy! (I have the same philosophy for spare nuts, bolts and screws)
Shot for Looking Close… on Friday!, Buttons
Cinquecento und Alfredos Dreirad.
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Black & white stripes... rendered in black and white.
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Created for the "Looking Close... on Friday!" theme, CATS IN BACK & WHITE.
Glasbubbla gjord av den magiska glasblåsaren Jo Andersson i Kosta.
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A glass bubble made by the magic glassblower Jo Andersson in Kosta, Sweden