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When we visited Alaska 2 summers ago one of the most memorable days was spent on Prince William Sound out of Valdez. The teal blues of the water, turquoise ice formations, blue gray mountains and clouds...in one word, stunning!
For Macro Monday's "Relaxation" theme. A really tough one ;-) Three short rubber bands in the moment of transition from being taut to returning to their relaxed state. I'm not really happy with this, and it is the third capture in a row for MMs that involves motion blur, but was even less happy with my other two ideas / shots, so here it is. Width: between 1,37795 and 1,77165 inches (3,5 - 4,5 cm)
Thank you for your kind comments, I appreciate every single one (and I'll try to answer them, certainly with a fav), and your faves ;-) ! Today I'm very busy, so won't be able to be on Flickr much, I'll try to catch up later.
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Für das Macro-Monday-Thema "Relexation". Das dritte MM-Foto in Folge mit Bewegungsunschärfe, drei sehr kurze Gummibänder, im Moment des Loslassens und der Rückkehr in den entspannten Zustand. Ich bin nicht richtig zufrieden damit, aber meine beiden anderen Ideen / Fotos haben mir noch weniger gefallen...
Vielen Dank für Eure tollen Kommentare und Faves und einen schönen Montag, genießt die seltene Sonne, so es geht ;-)
Eskdale is a civil parish in the west of the Lake District National Park, and the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is named after the Eskdale valley which the River Esk flows through on its way from the fells of the Lake District to the Irish Sea at Ravenglass.
I have been enjoying the zinnias that I planted this year. Not only are they beautiful, hardy, and butterfly magnets, they are also not on the menu of the deer that eat everything else in my garden!
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#Fictitious
A snake? A dragon? Both, I'd say. In a fantasy world, where a year has 13 months, the Dragon Serpent is the 13th zodiac sign, and the element of fire reigns every 13th year.
This Schleich mini figurine came to my rescue when I couldn't make my original idea work. I had ventured out to a nearby toy shop replete with checkout negotiation dramas (boy, about 4: "Look, Dad, look, I absolutely still need this set, it has these special parts. I need it!" Dad, while paying for the baby doll for the boy's toddler sister who was wailing at the top of her voice because the evil lady at the register had "taken away" her new toy: "I. Won't. Buy. You. This. Today. You've. Had. Enough.") and returned home with two (too) large Schleich figures – a huge black T-Rex with an articulating mouth (and a very impressive set of teeth), and a "stone monster" troll figure with arms (and hands) bigger than Hulk's and an articulating mouth as well. With the latter, I had the idea of doing a "stone, paper, scissor" type of image, because paper beats stone ("How to shut up a Troll"). But (not surprisingly) it didn't work within the 3-inch limit even though the stone monster has a fairly small head (compared to its body) that probably contains a brain the size of a speck of dust.
So in the end I used what I already had in one of my many MM boxes. A few years or so ago, I bought a set of these "Schleich Minis", as usual with a possible MM use in mind. They are most likely part of Schleich's "Eldrador" fantasy world that is inhabited by all kinds of gruesome monsters and dragons. Just my type of thing ;)
For this small scene, I put the "dragon serpent" figurine (which is 4,5 cm/1,77 inches long) in front of a necklace that I have already used for two other MM themes ("Copper" from May 2019 and "Pouch" from September 2020, both images are in the first comment), so I knew it would yield some nice background bokeh. I wanted to create something reminiscent of traditional Chinese zodiac design. I made the pendant stand up with the help of a small piece of modeling clay. The first idea was to also drape the serpent in gold chains, but that looked too busy. So I used only the pendant and its chain which I laid out in three straight lines for a harmonious-looking background. The dragon serpent sits on a gold-coloured piece of cardboard that once was part of food packaging. Its uneven surface looks like soft ripples of water which I think looks nice in this setup and adds depth to the image. The final image is a focus stack made of 15 images which I've combined in Helicon Focus (method C, smoothing 5).
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It's Casio time again :) This is the third time I've photographed this particular watch from Casio's Vintage line for an MM theme. I couldn't shoot the bracelet this time because I'd already done so before, but I always wanted to get extra close to the shiny logo on the watch's face, and now, with the Laowa lens, this was easier (well, sort of) than ever before. The final image is a single shot processed in DXO PL6, Color Efex, and Luminar Neo.
The lettering (0,65 cm / 0,25 inches wide) was printed, or rather embossed, with a silvery, super shiny "ink" so it almost looks like liquid metal (mercury comes to mind). I've always been fascinated by what happens to lettering when photographed with a very shallow depth of field, so this lent itself as one possible choice for our "Bokeh" theme. I also photographed the "Knot of Fate" pendant and necklace/chain (the bokeh classic) which also was part of last week's theme, and an "S-Biner" carabiner hook that had fallen out of my camera's accessory pouch when I changed my cam's battery (speaking about photographing random things for a theme), so, in the end, it was a little difficult to choose – which is why I simply delegated the choice ;)
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Happy Orthodox Easter :-)
Taken back in 2016 on an unusually warm (for late March) and also strangely "sunny-hazy" Easter Monday at the Berlin Zoological Garden. I remember well that the sun managed to break through the clouds only a few times, and by the time we were about to leave the Zoo, the sun was all but a pale white disk behind the muggy layer of clouds. It was a weird "sunshine without sunshine" atmosphere, difficult to describe. When I look at this image now, after four years, the tree somehow reminds me of Earth, and the fruits look like all the different places, cities, countries, villages, all the individuals who live on Earth, and who are seperated from each other, but who are also connected to each other by the planet we live on / share, and nowadays we are connected with each other through social media, too. I guess it's the current "Corona situation" which gave me this idea...
The strange light on that day provided me with some nice tree silhouettes, and the dull grey, slightly yellowish sky made this perfect for some colour processing (or colour adding, actually) fun in Color Efex Pro. I re-processed this image only last week, but since I had processed it the first time around in Color Efex, I decided to stick to it. All that I changed this time is that I've used the "Bi-color Filter" on three different layers (in PS) for an even more colourful look, and I've also smoothed the image in Topaz DeNoise.
Actually I had wanted to upload this last Sunday both for Easter and for Sliders Sunday, then somehow didn't get around to do it (I seem to "not get around to do things" a lot lately during these strange indoors days...), then wanted to upload it last Monday, but, heck, there is no Sliders Monday, is there? But then I was delighted to learn from dear Flickr friend Cami mire (fdlscrmn) that the Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter this Sunday, so this is my slightly belated, yet also right on time Easter greeting and Sunday slide in one :-)
Ist alles so schön bunt hier...
Letzte Woche kurz vor Ostern habe ich mich an diese Aufnahme aus dem Berliner Zoo von vor vier Jahren erinnert - aufgenommen damals an einem seltsam diesig-sonnigen und für Ende März auch ungewöhnlich warmen Ostermontag. Die Sonne hatte es an jenem Tag durchaus auch einmal direkt durch die Wolkendecke hindurchgeschafft, aber gegen Ende des Zoobesuchs am späteren Nachmittag war sie am dunstigen, gelblich-grauen Himmel nur noch als blasse, helle Scheibe wahrnehmbar. Als Ergebnis war das Originalfoto fast so eine Art "Farb-Schwarzweiß-Bild" und schon damals hatte ich mit diversen Farbfiltern in Color Efex herumgespielt, um dem Himmel etwas mehr Leben einzuhauchen. Für den heutigen Sliders Sunday habe ich es dann jetzt noch einmal farblich aufgepeppt, wie schon 2016 ebenfalls unter Verwendung des "Bi-Color Filters" in Color Efex. Dieses Mal habe ich aber gleich drei verschiedene Farbebenen kombiniert und das Bild in Topaz DeNoise auch etwas entrauscht. Eigentlich hatte ich es schon letzte Woche an Ostersonntag hochladen wollen, aber irgendwie komme ich momentan zu nichts, obwohl nicht nur das Foto-Archiv lockt, sondern mir u.a. auch meine Wohnung jede Menge kleinere (und auch größere) Hinweise gibt, was eigentlich alles zu tun wäre, das man doch jetzt, in den vielen Stunden daheim, auch so wunderbar tun könnte, aber... nun ja. Immerhin aber ist der Osterbezug erhalten geblieben, denn die orthodoxen Christen feiern Ostern an diesem Sonntag :-)
Outtake for Macro Monday's "Chip(s)" theme. view into two slots of a multi card reader, size: 1,5 cm / 0,393701 inches
Zweitversion für Macro Mondays "Chip(s)"-Thema, Blick in zwei Steckplätze eines Multikartenlesers
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Wolfsburg/Niedersachsen GER
The Phæno Science Center is an interactive science center in Wolfsburg, Germany, completed in 2005. The building stands on concrete stilts, allowing visitors to the Autostadt to pass through without interfering with the workings of the building. Phæno is connected to the Autostadt by a metal bridge accessed by escalators and stairs either side. The underside of Phæno and the "stilts" are illuminated.
Krypta / Konradsburg
Landkreis Harz / Germany
See where this picture was taken. [?]
three single shots
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#Red
Is it? Yes, at least sometimes :) Because this is a capital B that, methinks, looks like a heart when turned to the left. I assume that the B was designed to look like a heart. The whole logo-lettering says "Bocca" which is a collection of glasses by Paris-based spectacles and frames manufacturer "Face a Face". The lettering is embossed on the specs case and both the case and the (also red) frames that came in the case belong to my mother, magrit k. The temple stems of my mom's glasses have a cute little detail, a pair of small red high heels/pumps on each side. Maybe I should have photographed one of these, but my mom has already done so, and very beautifully, too (you can see her photo in the first comment).
The B is 4 cm/1,5 inches long, so this macro is on the larger side. The image is a focus stack consisting of 15 DNGs that I've combined in Helicon Focus (Method A, Radius 8, Smoothing 6). The yellow highlights were created by using a small gold-coated cardboard "reflector" thingy. I don't use image frames/borders that often anymore but here I thought a small dark-red frame with a thin white highlight looked nice and helped to better define the image with all that red.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone! I'm busy today and will catch up with you later!
...Said: I thought it would be so!
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#Tableware
The sad face of Witwe Bolte (Widow Tibbets in the English version; here she looks as if she had a toothache, doesn't she?) on the handle of the teaspoon from my childhood cutlery set. Witwe Bolte is a character featured in the first two verses/pranks (and the epilogue; my caption and sub-caption are the first two verses of that epilogue; the English translation is courtesy of David Gorman who translated the whole story) of Wilhelm Busch's "Max and Moritz: A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks". Max and Moritz is one of the most popular German children's books ever, published for the first time in 1865, and translated into 300 languages. The pranks are full of wicked humour, and when I was little, I didn't particularly like the characters of Max and Moritz because they were such nasty little boys who terrorized their whole village with the most outrageous pranks. In the end, they met an untimely end by being ground at the village mill and fed to the miller's geese (!). Pretty cruel, isn't it, but times were different (and much rougher) in 1865. Or were they?
So I guess my photo features what you might call my "signature macro colours", this time not achieved by using my makeshift colour filters, but makeshift reflectors instead, a new addition (next to the gold-coated cardboard) being a pink chocolate wrapper tin foil. I'm very busy at the moment, so I decided to stay in my comfort zone and just try to get a decent photo for the theme so as not to skip once again. The final image is a single shot, processed in DXO PL7, Analog Efex, and Lightroom.
Size of what you see of Widow Tibbets/the teaspoon's handle: 2 cm/0,78 inches.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone! I'll try to catch up with you tonight!
Great How or Great Howe is a hill of 522 metres in the west of the English Lake District, lying south of Scafell Pike and east of Burnmoor Tarn. It lies in the civil parish of Eskdale, the unitary authority area of Cumberland and the ceremonial county of Cumbria.
Illgill Head also pictured in the background.
The Lake Buttermere valley is a U-shaped glacial valley in the Lake District National Park, containing three lakes: Buttermere, Crummock Water, and Loweswater. The valley is known for its natural beauty, surrounding fells, and outdoor activities like hiking and walking, with the hamlet of Buttermere nestled at one end. It also has a history of mining, particularly for iron and slate, and is managed largely by the National Trust.