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This is my Bouzouki, a Greek instrument that was made for me in Greece,
I only play it for my pleasure if you like to hear the instrument please view the video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaUmHWQZeAM
The silver rose was a gift to my wife on Valentine's Day years ago.
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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60 X30 softbox camera right. Reflector camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
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I am lucky enough to have a portfolio of pictures from 2013 in Arte Fotográfica #63. If you have time and the desire to do so you can see them here, starting on page 74
issuu.com/almalusa.org/docs/dp63_issuu
If you don't fancy it --- TAKE ME TO THE KITTENS --- as the children at Flickr would have it ( It is a cute one )
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This photo hardly does justice to the exquisite beauty of the mother-of-pearl insets. You can't see how they shine and glow in different directions as you move near them. Each leaf and each petal is a separate piece of sea-shell, glued separately into its own cavity, and then the entire table sanded and polished flat, and varnished.
(Click on the image - the details are much more visible when enlarged)
ODC - Intricate
(Explored)
A very small portion of the shell inlay work on a trinket box given to me by my Korean daughter in law.
It had to be a Bob Dylan title on the day after he received the Noble prize for literature a pity that Patti Smith forgot her words but it can happen to anyone.
The image was taken at noon at the harbour at Tromso in the strange twilight of Arctic winter. The focus of the photograph was the strange light effects visible in the Northern sky. At the time I had no idea what they were I leant later they were nacreous clouds a strange feature that you tend to see only see that far north. They are strangely beautiful and quite transient a couple of minutes later they had disappeared.
Polar stratospheric clouds or PSCs, also known as nacreous clouds from nacre, or mother of pearl, due to its iridescence), are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters (49,000–82,000 ft). They are best observed during civil twilight when the sun is between 1 and 6 degrees below the horizon. They are implicated in the formation of ozone holes.
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For my birthday, Lindsey bought tickets to see 'The Phantom of the Opera' at the Kennedy Center in August. Last time I saw it was in London. The gem in this photo though, is the pair of 1800's Chevalier Paris mother-of-pearl opera glasses she gave me.
"One of the largest of Britain's so-called 'micro-moths'; in fact it is larger than many of the 'macro-moths', though this division is largely artificial.
The moth rests with all four wings on display, which show a colourful rainbow-like lustre in certain lighting conditions, as the English name suggests.
Common throughout most of Britain, the adults fly from dusk onwards, and are often attracted to light"
Lappland Sweden
Polar stratospheric clouds or PSCs, also known as nacreous clouds (,from nacre, or mother of pearl, due to its iridescence), are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters (49,000–82,000 ft). They are best observed during civil twilight when the sun is between 1 and 6 degrees below the horizon as well as in winter and in more northerly latitudes
I made this a bit ago, but it wasn't working out the way I wanted so I just put it in a drawer. My kiddo spied it recently and asked to wear it. It's perfect kid jewelry.
This butterfly is known as the forest mother-of-pearl (Protogoniomorpha parhassus) and also as the common mother-of-pearl. The reason for the name is very obvious when you see the dorsal side of the wings which shimmer in very much the same way as mother-of-pearl does.
Unfortunately, the shimmering doesn't really show up that well in photos, but trust me, this is a very cool species to see in person.
There have been a good many images of the (usually) rarely seen Nacreous (Mother of Pearl) clouds seen over the UK this last couple of days. I decided to grab a couple of hand-held shots this evening and though the most colourful clouds were to the south I chose to include the nearly-full moon rising just below this individual cloud. Wishing all Flickr friends, followers and visitors a Merry Christmas!
After diving the Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast & hand picking some abalone (some reaching 10+ in) I wanted to try & capture the beauty of their mother of pearl shells up close :)
aka Irridescent/Nacreous/Mother of Pearl Clouds.
Explanation here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_stratospheric_cloud
Not seen that often and thought to be due to the high winds caused by Storm Gertrude. My friend Doug 1st alerted me to these the evening before when he saw them above his house but I missed them. But there they were again this morning as I was leaving for work. I only had time to shoot about a dozen hasty pictures from my drive before starting my commute. They reminded me of the meteor shower in John Wyndham's 'Day Of The Triffids'... Maybe tomorrow we'll all wake up blind... It's the end of the world!
I made this for my sweetie :) It took three days of thought, care, cutting and stitching, and it was worth every minute
size wise it is 11cm tall and 7.5cm across
I've put the new photo up now, bit sharper, and less shine/glare from the light! I have now realised that I made a really hard thing to photograph easily!
Storm Henry has wreaked havoc and blown through - glad to see my roof is still on :)
Nacreous clouds over the house this morning.
This powder box featuring an Edwardian beauty comes from around 1910 to 1912. She is French and is made of gold with a lip of dark green enamel. The image of the unknown beauty was done by taking a lithograph of a photograph of the lady, painting it my hand, and cutting it to allow the colours of slivers of mother of pearl and iridescent butterfly wings to blend into the photograph. The image was then placed beneath a convex piece of glass to protect it. The protected image was then inserted into a 15 carat gold frame and backed by a bevelled mirror on the inside. She came with her original powder puff which features a little pink and white candy stripe ribbon. She is only one and a half inches in diameter.
(Private collection.)
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a monthly challenge called “Freestyle On The Fifth”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each month, and the image is to be posted on the 5th of the month.
This month the theme, “beauty” was chosen by Andrew (ajhaysom).
I wanted to choose this powder box because she represents beauty in several ways: the powder box itself is an item of beauty, the woman on the top is the epitome of an Edwardian Beauty from before the Great War, and the box’s purpose was to hold powder for an Edwardian lady to dust her face with, to aide her beauty.
This is an PSC. A Polar Stratospheric Cloud, something that's usually only visible at certain moments during winter, usually around the time we Icelanders get up for work during the winter months, and sometimes during sunsets too. It's pretty! Oh and there's a new lens in my arsenal! Actually it's around 20 years old, but new to me anyway: a 300/2.8L USM :-O
This may not rock your world, but I liked how it came out...
More carbonaceous if you click the pic to view in Lightbox...
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And this is a VERY small part of my whole collection. I have sooo many of them, I've been collecting them for over 20 years now. (I'm 31) I love mother-of-pearls, it has something magical to me.
Learn more about them here : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother-of-pearl
(May 26th 2009)
Three different views of the nacreous clouds from last week Also known as Mother of Pearl.. Not seen these very often, so quite pleased with the shots.
Pinctada maxima is a species of pearl oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae, the pearl oysters. There are two different color varieties: the White-lipped oyster and the Gold-lipped oyster.
These bivalves are the largest pearl oysters in the world. They have a very strong inner shell layer composed of nacre, also known as "mother of pearl". They are important in the cultured pearl industry as they are used to produce South Sea pearls.
Known also as the South Sea Pearl or Philippine Pearl, it was declared by Philippine President Fidel Ramos as the national gem in 1996 through Proclamation No. 905.[1] This is also featured at the reverse side of the PHP 1000 bill.
source: wikipedia
Although not the most valuable object that I own, this is one of my most precious pieces. This is my Great Grandmother’s small Anglo-Indian jewellery box, which she brought back from India after she and my Grandfather finished a period in the diplomatic corps during the Raj just before the Great War. It is precious to me because it holds some of the most tangible memories I have of my Great Grandmother and my Grandmother. This sat on my Great Grandmother’s dressing table and housed some of her everyday jewellery. I remember visiting her and watching her take out her pearls and cameos and glittering rings when she was getting ready to receive visitors or to go out. Even when I hold it now or hear the rich sounds of the box lid as it closes, in my mind I can still smell her violet and lily of the valley perfumes and her cold cream. When she died, my Grandmother inherited it and it sat on her dressing table, and I can hear her laugh as I played with the pearl necklaces, earrings and rings that she kept in there, including the Regency ebony and ivory earrings I called “Flora” and “Fauna”. The yellowing of the ivory is a sign of its advanced age, and its edges have been worn by many hands touching them over the last century: not least of all mine.
The jewellery box itself is an Anglo-Indian (Indian made but designed for the British market who lived in India during the Raj) made in the 1890s. It is fashioned from ebony and rosewood with the most exquisite hand-made geometric marquetry inlay of ivory and mother of pearl. The detail photos show how intricate the geometric pattern is, and how perfectly each piece is fitted. This might impress you even more when you think that the box itself is ten and a half centimetres long, by six and half centimetres wide and four and a half centimetres deep. The ebony frames to the hexagons on the lid are one millimetre thick, the vertical rosewood bands on the ivory edge of the lid are half a millimetre in width, the smallest triangles on the sides each have sides of one millimetre in length and the triangles around the flowers on the lid have sides less than half a millimetre in length: and all of this was made with precision by hand by a master artisan more than a century ago.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “geometry” was chosen by GG, Greenstone Girl.
Geometry is the part of mathematics that studies the size, shapes, positions and dimensions of things. Squares, circles and triangles are some of the simplest shapes in flat geometry. Cubes, cylinders, cones and spheres are simple shapes in solid geometry.
Marquetry is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns, designs or pictures.
Wild South Africa
Gravelotte
Limpopo Province
I had to attend to a court case in Tzaneen and as usual I packed in my macro gear. On the way back to Phalaborwa I had to pass through Gravelotte, a small one horse mining town. Just before you enter Gravelotte their is a dirt road to the right that leads to a massive Boabab tree as well as to a ghost town called Leydsdorp 11 km south-west of Gravelotte and 53 km south-east of Tzaneen. It developed from a gold-mining camp and was proclaimed in 1890, but was virtually abandoned when gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand. Anyway, I didn't feel like going back to the office as it was Friday afternoon and already past two and I decided to visit Leydsdorp to see if there was anything of interest to photograph. On the way I noticed numerous Lowveld Bitter Tee bushes (Vernonia colorata) in flower and stopped in the red dirt road next to one of these bushes, and that is where I nailed this exotic butterfly. You can actually notice the effect of the red soil on the flowers. The wind was blowing at 9 Kph and I handheld the camera.
Mother of Pearl (Pleuroptya ruralis) moth resting on a rusty-looking Horse Chestnut leaf on a sunny morning in Ipswich's beautiful Christchurch Park. Thanks to the experts in the Facebook Butterflies UK group for the ID. The moth was as big as a regular moth despite the classification of this species as a "micro-moth". I only knew the moth was there because it flew up and perched on the underside of the leaf as I walked past. The moth obligingly stayed still with its 4 wings outstretched as I photographed it. The leaf, like most of the Horse Chestnut leaves in the park, was covered in brown patches. I think these are caused by another moth called, unsurprisingly, the Horse Chestnut Leaf-mining Moth (Cameraria ohridella).