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I like taking beautiful photos of sad places. That's what I tell people that ask. I'm hardly ever asked, but I keep that answer handy because it pleases me. Finding sad places is the easy part. Transcending the sadness not so much. It's usually more of a thought process than a technical achievement. The camera is the medium. A visual extension of my mind's eye...a way to capture the essence of something I want to articulate. Things that are often based more on a feeling or a sense than things actually present. Sometimes it pans out; others not. More often, the results go out of kilter: too much beauty or too much sadness. It's all very subjective and I think my state of mind plays into which direction it will go. Weather can also skew the results. Just a little sun can cause unwanted cheerfulness or unwanted contrast. Likewise overcast can flatten a scene into lifelessness. And then there's times when the sadness is compounded to the point where there really isn't any beauty left in the scene. For some reason images like this result from my drive-by photos where the camera captures passing scenery. It's all quite spontaneous; nothing is composed or framed. It's just random image acquisition. It puts me in mind of people I've seen on youtube tossing a magnet on a rope into a lake to see what they can pull up. Lots of failure, but you just never know what's going to come up on the end of that rope.
but being magnets they didn't keep still for me and jumped into their own positions. These are all magnetic holders for my whiteboard.
For Looking Close... on Friday!
A fridge magnet I bought in London during a business trip. There are landmarks and iconic symbols of London city.
Looking back to 2015, an early start on the ferry from Levis to Quebec city had it's advantages - we more or less had it to ourselves. At the terminal, I was intrigued by a sculpture of what appeared to be two horseshoe magnets stuck together. I had no idea if it was an art piece or a corporate logo of some sort but from this perspective, many leading lines seemed to emphasize it. Perhaps someone in Flickrland can tell me what it represents.
Macro Mondays - Green Yellow Squares
Three from a set of little fridge magnets I bought years ago!! They were mostly green but fortunately for me, in this instance, two of the set just happened to be yellow!!
They each measure 7/8" square and therefore fit within the required 3" square parameter.
After clinging to the fridge door for many years this little fella has started to lose his magnetism, so now dangles from the radiator instead...at least his feet will be nice and warm! HSoS! :-)
I've been on the road all this week with limited macro photo taking and editing abilities, so am using a "metal" picture from a few weeks ago - sorry!
These are little magnets that you stick together to make interesting shapes. The stack is about 1.5 x 2 inches. The shininess and reflections mentioned in this weeks challenge discussion was definitely an issue. All the little white rectangles are reflections of the lights around the table, but at least the camera (and me) didn't show up. HMM!
CN A407 emerges out of the wooded confines of downstate Illinois with CN #5323, a GMD SD40-2W, leading two Illinois Central SD70s.
En mycket vacker och speciell plats, nästan magisk, så man förstår varför den drar turister. (Även om det bu för all del inte är så jättemånga som rör sig där en sen vardagskväll i november.)
interlude .... My plan for this series #5 of "shell adventures" is to have a break in subject matter every now and then.
Honeybees are covered in hair and the beating of their wings generates static electricity that turns all that fuzz into a pollen magnet.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F16, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 2x) + a diffused MT-24EX. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Technique: I injected 2:1 sugar syrup into a sunflower so this girl would have a reason to let me get close.
These magnets are from the following places:
Sky Meadows State Park, Virginia.
Appalachian Trail: Unsure where I got this one.
Hawksbill Mountain, located in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.
Ohio Stadium, Columbus, Ohio.
Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum, Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.
A magnet attached to a mini cactus in a cork, a souvenir from Fuerteventura. The little magnet just isn't strong enough, and then I find the little cactus hanging upside down again.
I bought 2 of those little plants and they are now standing together on the windowsill.
Bande magnétique Agfa-Gevaert 1/4 de pouce
Agfa-Gevaert 1/4 inch magnetic tape
Celle-ci a été enregistrée en 1975.
This one was recorded in 1975.
EF100mm f/2.8 L IS USM
Stack de 13 images capturées avec Helicon Remote et assemblées avec Helicon Focus
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I ran out of 1/4" spherical magnets before I could finish this form. It is hard to see what is going on without seeing them in person so I will attempt to describe it here: 4D Dodecahedral Tube Mesh
Macro Mondays: Magnetic
The little hockey puck-looking magnet is 0.5" in diameter. The miniature screw is 0.25" long.
SETUP:
Safety first with safety glasses and gloves. This is messy stuff and you don't want to get it on anything but glass or plastic. It will stain most stuff. Use paper towels to absorb any excess stuff.
Ferrofluid (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluid)
I tried previously to make my own ferrofluid from toner etc and had no success. Even talking to the toner distributor about what I was after didn't help so I bit the bullet and bought some proper ferrofluid on Amazon. Not cheap (~AUD100) but worked perfectly from the outset.
You need a strong, small magnet. A local magnet supplier has a Neodymium magnet in Cylinder shape (20mm x 25mm N45) that looked to be the best price/strength @ AUD32
Plastic petrie dish and syringe to transfer the fluid
Ferrofluid is very reflective. Taken in almost darkness with a single yellowish lamp from above left. A reddish backdrop and voila!
Pack of playing cards to adjust distance from magnet to petrie dish. Shorter distance to the fluid results in smaller/tighter spikes and further away has taller, broader/rounder spikes. Underexpose by a stop to avoid any clipping reflections.
Stacked in photoshop. Probably about 20 shots all up using the Canon R5's focus stack feature.
Other fun times with ferrofluid can be found at:
Saturday Self Challenge
The topic for next challenge is magnets. You can show the magnet itself or the effects of a magnet on another item. Light processing is fine, just make sure the magnet or its effects are visible.
When the challenge was posted I had a wander around the house looking for inspiration. I walked into my husbands work shop and spotted that he’d placed some magnets of various sizes, and in various conditions, on the front of a couple of the old metal drawers which contain all sorts of stuff. I rearranged them a little and added some combination spanners for effect, I know it all seems a bit messy but it wouldn’t have looked like a workshop if everything was sparkling clean.
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Having no colorful magnets of my own, I enlisted my 4 yr old Granddaugher to help build a "Magna-Tile" mansion.
With social distancing in place, we needed to skype her creation.
Each shape, triangle, rectangle, square, is magnetized and different structures can be built.
Smile on Saturday
Magnets
A rare earth magnet encased in blue plastic rests on a Physics book. I know what's in it. I wrote it: took the background image on black and white film and then printed the iron filing field plot in a dark room in 1991. A soft iron former rests on the magnet and two fake copper coins are clamped to that by magnetic induction. Low denomination coins were once made of a copper alloy but when that became too expensive mints switched to cheaper iron coins plated in copper. Money is not worth what it was.