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I'll be darned if this wasn't one of the most difficult #Macromonday challenges for me! During these challenges, I strive to tell a story, or capture the imagination, but try as I might I could not think of how to do it within the confines of this "Pick Two" challenge. Finally, I decided on a Blue Pen as my subject...and after many attempts at trying to find a creative way to capture a blue pen, I went with a story that we are all too familiar with. I hope you enjoy! HMM!
Small glass jar with airtight closure, containing hard boiled sweets (Cola Cubes) from a presentation hamper of tasty comestibles.
. . . But You Ain't Been Right Yet."
- These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra
The #MacroMondays #Footwear theme
Taken using a 20mm extension tube, window lit with a plain white background, and a reflector used to bounce light back onto the shoe. Photoshop was used to desaturate, add contrast, a sepia tone, haze, texture, grain and a pale vignette.
HMM all
Inside a cut-open geode, a naturally occurring geological oddity, apparently an ordinary looking rock but containing crystals.
a tinseley star decoration for putting on birthday cakes!
Shonen Knife - Star
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-S0IH_f0V0
For the 124 pictures in 2024 group: number 103. Star
A bit controversial i know, but still I'm A Chocoholic.. Dark chocolate is what I need. Other people eat bread, I take chocolate instead.
The #MacroMondays #New Theme
This crocus bulb is one of 36 I planted today, representing hope that one or two things at least may go as planned in the garden this year. Time will tell. It's a stacked image, taken window-lit using a 20mm extension tube. White paper was used to reflect the ambient light onto the bulb to prevent silhouetting in this minimalist high key interpretation. Processing included increasing the exposure of the background to accentuate the high key effect, boosting texture and adding a gentle vignette.
HNY and HMM all.
Here are two inches of a fossil I found in our yard. We have 12 tons of river rock around our garden train. There are probably many more fossils.
I've viewed through my kaleidoscope at my Macromondays screen for #macromondays 'translucent' theme (12-Oct-2020).
Sycamore Seeds. Wanted to go for that leaves just under your feet kind of shot, but in tiny minuature, for MacroMondays.
My favourite floral loose leaf tea blend, called "falling in love again". Is there a better way to start your day? :)
#MacroMonday
#Reflection
So I seriously debated with myself if I could / should upload this or rather skip... It's the typical "I wasted a sunny Sunday (and half of a free and equally sunny Monday) at home trying to get my MM shot right capture" (arrrrghrrrrrrrr!)...;-) My idea behind this was that there are two sides to every coin, thing, debate, person... The side everyone sees, and, at least when it comes to a person, a more private, sometimes even hidden side. So you see I was getting very philosophical with this - when everything could have been so easy, simple and straightforward. But just like it is with so many other things: they are easy when they aren't required (and I have quite a few nice and easy reflections in my MM gallery). But when they are... I started off with a very simple take on my idea, the "Sun" and "Moon" cards of my tiny Tarot deck of cards (I Tarocchi Più Piccoli del Mondo - The Smallest Tarot in the World by artist Antonio Lupatelli) glued together back to back with modeling clay and then fixated on a small black tile with modeling clay as well at an angle that would allow a nice reflection. So far, so good - or not. The image turned out well, but of course the "La Luna" print on the "dark side" of the card was, you've guessed it, mirror-inverted. Not exactly unexpected, but I think the image didn't work with the "La Luna" label the wrong side round. So what to do? The easy thing would have been to rotate and flip that part of the card in Photoshop back to a readable "La Luna". But that would have been cheating. So I decided to add another reflective surface (an old, scratched pocket mirror - that ugly "line" you can see is the edge of the mirror) and re-reflect the "La Luna" - and by doing so also mirror the "Il Sole". Four sides of a coin, if you like. Before all of it gets too confusing, I'd rather stop (and have I mentioned the dust? I'd rather not...). I don't recall the processing steps, but there were many, because I did a manual focus stack to get both the Sun and reflected Moon card sharp and sort of equally well exposed (which wasn't easy, because the Moon card, reflected by the black tile, was always either too dark or the rest of that single shot was far too bright). One thing: I took the focus-stacked image into Analog Efex and added a very big, dark vignette. I realise that this would have been perfect for Sliders Sunday as well ;-)
For size, please check the image in the second comment. I'd already used these tiny tarot cards for two other MM themes, and in that image you can see how small the cards really are.
Thank you most sincerely for viewing and reading, a Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a relaxed week ahead!
Liebe Flickr-Freunde, da ich mal wieder sehr spät dran bin, würde ich Euch bitten, Euch den obigen Text in DeepL übersetzen zu lassen, falls Interesse besteht. Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche :-)
I was using the candle first but it burned completely away and I wasn't happy with any of the shots. So I lit a match and threw it on top of the leftover wax. Done.