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Looking Close...on Friday - Halloween Decorations
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Poker, in itself, may be considered dangerous to one's financial status but this hand goes a step further. James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok (May27, 1837-August 2, 1876) was a folk legend of the American Old West. He was fatally shot in the back while playing poker in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (Present-day South Dakota). He is alleged to have been holding 2 pairs (Aces and Eights) at the time of the event. The hand became known as "The Dead Man's Hand" and the superstitious has been considered bad luck and even dangerous. Such was certainly true for Wild Bill.
My wife and I were first introduced to this delicious combination on our first vacation to Mexico 30+ years ago. It was prepared and served to us this way every morning. It has been a treat for us ever since.
Shot for Looking close… on Friday!, Summer Fruit
For the Looking-Close-on-Friday Group ' s theme "Silver and Gold" - my double ring made by an Irish goldsmith, silver with golden beads at the open ends of the rings. I have taken pictures of it for other Flickr groups because it really is one of my favourite rings and worn a lot as you can see.
HLCoF to all participants 💛💛
It's spring over here…in the southern hemisphere... but there are still some autumn leaves left in my garden.
Have a great day, everyone!
Fruchtbonbon.
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Für“Looking close …on Friday!“ am 10.06.2022.
Thema:“Candy (Golosinas) #Süßigkeiten#
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Four times the energy of a regular TGIF picture! Maracas! Dancing! Hair flips! SHOUTING!
Come on, weekend!
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Created for the "Looking Close... on Friday" theme, Collage in Square Photo. Special thanks to Big Huge Labs.
The first patent in the United States for barbed wire was issued on 25 June 1867 to Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio, who is regarded as the inventor
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Spirals this week.
I was so torn between another composition and the simplicity and comparison of my shoe size and my husband’s. He’s a size 12 6E wide and I am a 10 medium. It’s a standard household joke about the enormity of his feet. Considering I’m 5ft 3 people we laugh about that too 😁😳
When I was a child, I grew up listening to my maternal grandmother reading faerie tales to me from a big (at least from a child's perspective) green leather bound volume of Grimm's Faerie Tales with fine gilding and marbled edges. However, that wasn’t the only volume she read from. She also introduced me to the wonderful characters created by Lewis Carroll through “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass” which she had in an omnibus edition from the 1920s in grey vellum with all the characters’ names written in ever reducing squares and font as a border to the title.
It is from these stories that I have taken my inspiration for the theme for “Looking Close… on Friday!” for October 13th, which is “mushrooms”. If you have ever read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, or seen one of the multitude of television and film adaptations, you will be familiar with the caterpillar who sat on a mushroom smoking a hookah who told Alice that eating one side of the mushroom would make her taller and one side would make her smaller. You would also know that the whole reason Alice first went to Wonderland was by following the White Rabbit, who was late for the Queen of Hearts croquet party, down a rabbit hole. The amalgam of these two things led to this pairing of macro photos. Alice and the White Rabbit are both miniatures who live inside a small jar terrarium that I was given as a Christmas gift by a dear friend some years ago, whilst the mushrooms with their luscious shiny red tops are hand painted polystyrene examples that I picked up from a craft shop. The woodland setting is a small patch of my garden where the clivias are. I hope you like my choice for the theme, and that it makes you smile!
I would like to acknowledge and thank my Flickr Friend Red Stilletto www.flickr.com/photos/thevixen/ for inspiring me to use the pairing of two images and the application of a wide white frame. Both of these design elements she uses to create great impact with her own images.
Seemed a good shot for Looking Close...on Friday and low_key theme. I visited a woman whose late husband had a collection of antique cash registers. Focus is the key buttons on this autographic cash register hidden under the brass cover.
From an email received by the owner of antiquecashregistercollector.com/ : "The machine is a National (Cash Register) Model 45. These are called autographic machines (create a copy of the sales receipt). Produced 1898-1911, this particular model was a mid range machine (in price)."
This antique autographic register is simply a wooden box with a gold plate that has an opening for receipts which is right below the glass window seen in the photo. The receipts were created using carbon paper. The buttons create a combination lock that only the proprietor knew in order for the machine to open the cash drawer. The box was taped up so didn't get a chance to look inside.
More Info: Antique National Cash Register Catalogs
1898 National Autographic Registers
Photo taken with Microsoft Lumia Camera. The phone became corrupted during an update last year and photos are missing the camera information but retain the date taken.
This small box came with my son’s magic set when he was young. It appears as if there is no way to open the box… unless you know magic!
Shot for “Looking Close… on Friday!” and the theme “Toy Cars”
I felt obligated to enter a photo for this theme. Looking back to when my son was 2-years old, he has always been into cars. And to this day at age 27, he still loves cars and works in the auto industry.
Growing up he was always playing with toy cars and he amassed a large collection of them. We (my wife and I) became quite accustomed to opening a drawer or cabinet door to find a toy car or two within. We were careful to not walk around our home barefoot as stepping on one of them was hazardous to our health. Toy cars are still in his life as we have carried on a tradition that he gets at least one toy car as a gift every Christmas.
He has lived on his own for several years now and we still find some of his cars in unsuspecting places. This Hot-Wheels roadster being one I pulled from the cabinet below our TV.
As for my title of ‘Prescription Drive’, I was a child of the 60’s and 70’s, and just hopping in the car with the family to go for a drive was quite common growing up. I enjoyed it then and still enjoy drives today. But now I have a destination in mind (usually some place I can snap a picture or two).
Heute #Vegetarisch.# Spagetti mit Pilze.
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Für“Looking close…on Friday!“ am 02.09.2022.
Thema:“DAMAGED“ ( Beschädigt)
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Spare in der Zeit,dann hast du in der Not.
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Für:“Looking close…on Friday!“ am 22.04.2022.
Thema:“Piggy Bank“ ( Spardose)
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Schwarz und Weiß in Farbe. Steckengeblieben.
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I found this black and white feather on the way home in a field on the roadside. Then she lay on the garden table until I had stowed my bike in the garage – and until the wind blew her onto the lawn. Then she got stuck. I think she chose a very photogenic place ;-)
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Diese schwarzweiße Feder habe ich auf dem Nachhauseweg auf einem Feld am Wegesrand gefunden. Dann lag sie erst einmal auf dem Gartentisch, bis ich mein Fahrrad in der Garage verstaut hatte – und bis der Wind sie auf den Rasen geweht hat. Da steckte sie dann erst mal fest. Ich finde, sie hat sich einen sehr fotogenen Platz ausgesucht ;-)
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Nikon Micro-Nikkor-P / 1:3.5 / 55 mm
Hidden in the village are stones with hearts on them. Hearts means prizes.This was in the wall at the end our drive.
This sterling silver hairbrush made in Birmingham in 1903 is just one piece out of a very substantial dressing table set that includes hairbrushes, mirrors, a looking glass, a tray, a comb, clothes brushes, perfume bottles, a glove hook, a perfume bottle opener, a boot hook, a shoe horn, a manicure set, powder pots, a needle case, an appointment book, a miniature Bible, a hair tidy, a hatpin container, an appointment book and even a letter opener, all of which belonged to one of my Great, Great Aunts. All of them feature elegant and ornate repoussé work of a very high standard. Each item depicts a beautiful Art Nouveau maiden in profile with long flowing tresses that twist and curl about her as she stands amid some sunflowers, plucking blooms. This style of design is typical of the curvilinear floral and female motifs so popular during the Art Nouveau period, epitomised by artists like Alphonse Mucha and Gustav Klimt. As a child, I called the Art Nouveau lady on these pieces, Clytie, after the Greek mythological legend of Clytie the sea nymph who fell in love with Apollo and was transformed into a sunflower.
The theme for the 11th of December “Looking Close… on Friday” is “brush”. I thought this silver backed hairbrush made by the Birmingham silversmiths Levi and Salaman in 1903 was an elegant choice. I hope that you will agree. The hairbrush features a pad of boar bristles which were stiff enough to brush the thick and long hair grown by Edwardian women to form the ornate and stylish ‘transformations’ (hairstyles) of the first decade of the Twentieth Century.
This hairbrush is hallmarked with the initials “L.&S.” which are the initials for the silversmiths Levi and Salaman. Founded in 1870 by Phineas Harris Levi in partnership with Joseph Wolff Salaman the two men established a silversmiths firm. They later became proprietors of the Potosi Silver Company in 1878. The firm became Levi and Salaman in the early Twentieth Century and became Levi and Salaman Ltd. in 1910. In 1921 the firm was amalgamated into Barker Brothers Silversmiths Limited.