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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.
Kitty seems to have found a little drawer of thread. The thread box is resting on my sewing chair. 🐈🐱
This is a red, you know what cat, a well known comic figure here in the Netherlands.
He is a philosophical cat in the comic: Jan,Jans en de kinderen.( Jan,Jans and the childeren).
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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
Für“Looking close….on Friday!“ am 20.08.2021.
Thema:“White and Wonderful“
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I usually dry rose buds in the summer, which I store in a glass jar and open every now and then during the winter to smell the scent of summer.
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Jag brukar torka rosenknoppar på sommaren som jag förvarar i en glasburk och som jag öppnar då och då under vintern för att känna doften av sommar.
In front of the window, that is why you see the little spots, it's not specks on my lens :)
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Für:“Looking close…on Friday!“am 07.02.2025.
Thema:“OWL“….Eule…
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Eine einzelne Blüte.
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Für“Looking close…on Friday!“ am 01.04.2022.
Thema:“A single Flower“ (Eine einzelne Blume)
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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.
A rose in my garden for the group ‘Looking Close…On Friday. I’m hoping it’s close enough, green enough and not too early to be submitted.
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.
“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.
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.
Für“Looking close….on Friday!“
Thema:“BACKSIDE“ am 11.03.2022.
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Looking close... on Friday! theme : A Flower's Backside
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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.
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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Bienen auf Blüten in meinem Garten.
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Für“Looking close…on Friday!“
Thema:“BEES“ Bienen am 16.09.2022.
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Chestnuts, those needles are pretty sharp !!
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This is a single flower I picked in the garden. The vase, bottom right, is an old fashioned glass milk bottle. I edited the photograph in Snapseed and on Flickr.
Ideal flower for autumn colour in the garden.
[Looking close….on Friday!] – Theme – [Three]
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Kvarts är ett mineral som består av kiseldioxid, SiO2. Kvarts används som råvara till både glas och porslin och är en av de viktigaste ingredienserna i keramikglasyrer. Det finns många olika varianter av kvarts som har olika färger pga olika föroreningar. Ametist, citrin, rosenkvarts och rökkvarts är några exempel. Många av dessa används till smycken.
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Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon dioxide, SiO2. Quartz is used as a raw material for both glass and porcelain and is one of the most important ingredients in ceramic glazes. There are many different varieties of quartz that have different colors due to different impurities. Amethyst, citrine, rose quartz and smoky quartz are some examples. Many of these are used in jewelry.