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I was heading for dinner, when I stopped at the Devils Punch Bowl (Stoney Creek) to watch this storm travel from Guelph through to Burlington and Oakville. It was very condensed and had a very slow swirling in the middle region of the clouds. It seemed to be too low for it to turn in to a funnel...
With the way the weather has been lately, I wouldn't be surprised if it did turn in to a funnel!
It eventually went out over the lake, at which point I left for dinner.
It was very interesting to watch.
I came to the conclusion some time back that life would be easier if I had a mini ironing/sleeve board and I finally got round to getting one LOL So now instead of hauling my regular ironing board out from the cupboard under the stairs just to press some dolly clothes or little items I'm making, I can use this new one instead :-)
Nº 99 Micro Guagua de Transportes Insular La Palma
1995 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter L3H2 412D 2.9 D 122 cv [W904] Unvi
scav chall #3
If I'm being truthful I didn't really understand the assignment but here is my contribution, my micro landscape in my grand daughters sand pit :)
Recently acquired off Ebay Prestine condition Micro Nikkor Ais F2.8 55mm at a cost of £79.99. D100 used in manual mode, exposure estimated aperture used F5.6/F8. Lighting overcast spitting with rain, usual English Summer weather.
Getting closer still, and changing the focal point again.
This little daisy is a tiny little wild daisy growing in my yard...it is 3/4" from petal tip to petal tip!
This is a handheld shot...enabled by better light to have a little faster shutter speed; manual mode, manual focus (as they say, autofocus ain't necessarily your friend with micro shots); a 20mm and a 36mm extension tube stacked together. Me on my creakedy old knees and elbows as a tripod.
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This little wild daisy in my yard measures exactly 3/4" from tip to tip of its petals. What beauty in such a small world, eh?
This is a handheld shot, down on my elbows and knees, trying to hold steady. LOL
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Some of these photographs appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers; they are not. All of these photos are micro (macro) photographs of the super-tiny blooms that blossom on common weeds.
Weed flowers...wild flowers...whichever appellation you want to bestow on them nonetheless these almost microscopic beauties are the flowers that bloom on the weeds in my yard.
Many people also assume that these flowers are, for example, squash or zucchini-sized flowers, or that they are flowers 1" in diameter or larger and are perhaps on stems a foot tall or so. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Most of these flowers when measured petal tip to petal tip at their widest diameters measure 1/4" (6mm) across…or less...the entire bloom is that small. And the average stem height is only a few inches tall, if that.
The smallest weed flower I've shot yet is a small ring of flowers that measured less than 1/32" (.7mm) in diameter which encircled a spire which measured about 1/64" (0.3mm) in diameter.
For some photos I’ve included references to common objects such as the head of a paper match, or the head of a pin, which dwarfs some of these tiny flowers! On some others I’ve listed a description of the actual size of each object in the photo.
So far I've made over 700 photographs of over 50 varieties of weed flowers.
I hope that seeing the variety, beauty, and intricate complexity of this small world astonishes and pleases you as much as it has me.
Thanks for looking.
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Micro Weed Flowers:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157626023965740/
Micro Weed Flowers II:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633029514344/
Micro Weed Flowers III:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633029556370/
Micro Weed Flowers IV:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633025347237/
Micro Weed Flowers V:
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157633029592988/
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Just got my new Nikkor 60mm MICRO lens. It's freaking awesome. Please excuse these gratuitous close ups.
(L-R) Malik Djoudi, Julien Lepreux & Gwenaël Drapeau in MICRO rehearsals [Image © Pierre Grosbois www.pierregrosbois.com]