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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!
20250703_5066_R62-100 Pink Hollyhock
It is middle of winter and not many flowers around, apart from some tatty white roses and two or three hollyhock flowers.
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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.
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.
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
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 😁😳
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).
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!
Challange ”close up, minimalism, black background”. My first atempt at black background trough camera settings.
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.
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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I sorted these out from the sweets I was given. The last time I ate one a piece of my tooth broke off and I had to have a crown fitted – it was not cheap.
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Candy this week.
SCOUT: “Look Dolly! Daddy has given us some of his home made shortbread biscuits to nibble on. Yummy! That’s good because I have a grumbly tummy! Grumbly tummy, Dolly! Grumbly tummy!” *Rubs tummy vigorously.*
BIRDS: “Tweet, tweet, tweet.”
SCOUT: “Oh look Dolly! Christmas must be coming because here are our friends the four Calling Birdies! Hullo Calling Birdies!” *Waves paw enthusiastically at the birds.*
BIRDS: *Circle plate of shortbread, eyeing the biscuits.* “Tweet, tweet, tweet.”
SCOUT: “Oh! I remember now. You like shortbreads, don’t you birdies?”
BIRDS: “Tweet, tweet, tweet.” *Draw in closer to the shortbreads.*
SCOUT: “Would you like some shortbread biscuits, birdies?”
BIRDS: *Nod enthusiastically.*
SCOUT: “Oh Dolly! What do I do?” *Scratches head with paw.* “I want to give our friends the birdies some shortbread, but then I won’t have any for myself, and I have a grumbly tummy!” *Rubs tummy vigorously.*
DADDY: “Don’t worry Scout. I just baked a fresh batch of shortbreads which are still warm. Why don’t you let your friends the birds eat those biscuits and I will bring you a fresh plate of biscuits.”
SCOUT: “Oh thank you Daddy! I do have rather a grumbly tummy! Grumbly tummy Daddy! Grumbly tummy!” *Rubs tummy vigorously.*
DADDY: “You are welcome, Scout. You are a good, kind and caring little bear. It’s important that you don’t miss out on eating biscuits too.”
SCOUT: “Did you hear that birdies? I am getting a plate of fresh biscuits, not that these are stale of course!” *Assuringly.* “So you can eat up all of these biscuits.”
BIRDS: “Tweet, tweet, tweet.”
SCOUT: “You are welcome birdies!”
BIRDS: *Quickly gobble up all the shortbread biscuits.*
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 29th of October is “birds”. I must confess, I’m not really a bird photographer. It isn’t that I don’t like them because I do, it’s just that I am too slow to catch them in my lens, or butterflies for that matter. So when the theme came up, I immediate thought of the pretty sparkle, sequin and feather birds that decorate my Christmas Tree, and since Christmas is only nine weeks away…. Yes it really is only nine weeks until Christmas… I thought I would bring them out for the theme. They have featured with my bears Paddy and Scout before, and when they did, we discovered that these birds are in fact the famous four calling birds from the “Twelve Days of Christmas” carol, and they are very partial to my home made shortbread biscuits. I hope that you like my choice for the theme, and that this story and my pretty glittery birds make you smile!
This beautiful nursery tea set is made by the Shell China company in the 1910s. It features six cups, saucers (not all the set is being used today) as well as a teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl, all gilt and featuring different nursery rhymes including: "See Saw Margery Daw", "Jack and Jill", "This Little Pig Went to Market", "Taffy ws a Welshman", "Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross", "Little Jack Horner", "Old Mother Goose" and "I Saw a Ship a Sailing" amongst others. It is the prequel set to the Shell China nursery and faerie tale tea sets I have from the 1920s and 1930s. The designs are very Edwardian and the set is made up of smaller pieces.
Scout was a gift to Paddy from my friend. He is a Fair Trade Bear hand knitted in Africa. His name comes from the shop my friend found him in: Scout House. He tells me that life was very different where he came from, and Paddy is helping introduce him to many new experiences. Scout catches on quickly, and has proven to be a cheeky, but very lovable member of our closely knit family.
Baumrinde von einer japanischen Zierkirsche.
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Für“Looking close... on Friday!“
Thema:“Tree Bark“ am 13.05.2022.
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My wife was fond of rings.
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Jewellery (selective colour) this week.
Looking Close.... On Friday Challage Toiletries.
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For Looking Close on Friday theme of Crazy Cupcakes, this is a cupcake styled pin cushion made by a friend. It sits on a doily made by my great-grandmother.
Licht im Schatten. Lässt Sterne strahlen.
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The sunlight of spring awakens these delicate blue stars to bloom. And let us breathe a little ... Taken on a small walk at the edge of the forest, sunny and a bit windy.
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Das Sonnenlicht des Frühlings weckt diese zarten Blausterne zum Erblühen auf. Und lässt uns ein wenig aufatmen ... Aufgenommen auf einem kleinen Spaziergang am Waldrand, sonnig und etwas windig.
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Squills occur throughout Europe, parts of Asia and in a few places in Africa. Among the representatives are also some ornamental plants. The best known of these is the indigenous two-leaved blue alpine squill, which is also planted in many parks and gardens.
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Blausterne kommen in ganz Europa, Teilen Asiens und an wenigen Stellen in Afrika vor. Unter den Vertretern finden sich auch einige Zierpflanzen. In Deutschland am bekanntesten dürfte der einheimische Zweiblättrige Blaustern sein, der auch in vielen Parks und Gärten angepflanzt wird.
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Nikon Micro-Nikkor-P / 1:2.8 / 55 mm