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Brukar inte ta några makro kort (pga att jag inte ha den rätta utrustningen förutom en bilig "reverse ring" - vet ej vad den heter på Svenska). Men här kommer mitt bidrag till veckans temat - makro.
Don't normally dabble with macro photography (really don't have the gear for it except a cheap reverse ring) but as it was the weekly challenge for fotosondag I thought I'd give it a go.
The photo is of a match just as it ignites.
I should probably have someone cut a corner off my railfan card for shooting the DPU’s of a loaded coal train.
I should probably have someone burn my railfan card for shooting these ugly crapstain SD70MAC’s painted in that hideous b&n paint.
But I know some of you out there get all excited about these ugly things so I figured why not waste a few electrons as the sun slipped behind a cloud?
Matched BNSF lettered SD70MAC’s shoving on the rear of a loaded coal train at West Armour passing the searchlights that are still there for now.
Of mountains, molehills and reflections.
Early morning sun on the rocks at Box Beach, looking toward the distinctive Mount Tomaree.
A macro view of two stormproof matches and their reflections. Each match head measures approximately 4mm in diameter.
Strobist info:
The image was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights placed 80° CL/CR, two-feet away from and 16-inches above the subjects. The speedlights were fired in Manual mode @ full power through Neewer 24" x 24" soft boxes.
The SB900's were triggered by three PocketWizard Plus X's.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D (AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro) with a 36mm extension tube attached.
There was a superstition among soldiers during the Crimean War through to WW11 that if three soldiers lit their cigarettes from the same match then one of the three would be killed. or the third man would be shot. It is now considered to be bad luck for three people to share one light.
HMM.
The Barge Match took place on the Thames Estuary by Southend. It's just a delight to see these barges gliding, quite quickly, through the water. There was a fair breeze to assist. I (again!) pulled my 17 year old Nikon out of retirement, as that's the camera that I put my Tamron 18-270mm lens on. It's the longest lens I have.
I got the little train that runs along the pier, to the pier head. The barges cut in very close to the pier, so that helped. This barge is called 'Ironsides'. She's a beauty. The barge on the right, is 'Marjorie'. All four barges in the match were fabulous.
Taken with my Nikon D80
Wisconsin Central T040 was doing its thing on a nice sunny morning in 2000. The daily parade of SD45s on the Chicago Subdivision was a nice reliable way to expose some chromes back in the day.
The 6640 was built by EMD in 1966 for the Santa Fe and made its way to the WC in the mid-1990's and after the Canadians took over in 2001, the 6640 was kicked to the curb. I suspect it is no longer amongst the living.
There are some tens of bun cases, made of thin paper, all identical in shape and in the same colours' sequence
Happy MM
For Macro Mondays Group
Subject: Perfect Match
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I love a good red wine with chocolate - the perfect match. This pinot noir by Love Noir is my current favorite red wine. HMM, everyone ! !
The Brampton Plough Day and Country fayre took place on Sunday 5th Sept. A family day out with a competition ploughing match (A ploughing match is a contest between people who each plough part of a field. Nowadays there are usually classes for horse-drawn ploughs and for tractor ploughing. Points are awarded for straightness and neatness of the resulting furrows).
The tractor in the picture is a vintage David Brown.
More Here: www.dbtractors.co.uk
macromondays: perfect match of gears - though one does appear less shiny when in macro, though could not tell in just looking.
My macro filter set arrived today - so of course I couldn't resist the temptation to stack them all on top of one another... I only had a few minutes so grabbed a box of matches to test them out. Sony 18-70 kit lens, +10, +4, +2, +1 filters all stacked up. The image quality seems OK, but it's not the best subject to test on, I'm looking forward to trying these out some more in natural light.
A pair of Burlington Northern SD70MACs had an eastbound coal load rolling through Mount Pleasant on BN's Ottumwa Subdivision in 1995.