INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF COFFEE CUPS
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Macro Mondays theme - Currency
Whenever we go on a trip we always try to find the machines to press a pattern on a penny for a little souvenir. We have quite a collection of them. Most of the time the pattern of the penny on the underside can't be seen anymore, but I found a couple in our stash that still had the pattern and its round shape. Used a mixture of natural and artificial light.
Happy Macro Monday and stay warm everyone!
It was my first meeting with this strange species, and I had only one chance to shoot it since it flew away when I pressed the trigger.
The impressive sting at its tail is indeed a male genital bulb, hence completely harmless for humans...
Lens: EF 100 f/2.8L IS macro (click to see all my photos with this lens)
1/100s f/7.1 100mm ISO 1600
Edible pressed flower on the cookie (I think cherry blossom 🌸 )
Not that big, I mean this ceramic bird is very little 🐦
from my colleague, on my desk at work
Right auto-tag was given ☺︎
I was not planning to take this one, saw an airplane flying by, picked up the camera and pressed the shutter button without thinking, not changing anything on the camera, therefore 190mm not 300mm, therefore heavily cropped to ~3.5Mp.
... almost breathless, but still resisting! That cute house now is
an apartment(!?) building!
Flamengo's District, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Have an awesome week!! :¬)))
Scene1: Cosmo comes in with a bang! Scene 2: Green bee lands on Cosmo. Scene 3: Photographer points camera at flower to get the shot: Scene 4: Bee flies away before shutter button can be pressed. Scene 5: Fade away into sunset as photographer gently weeps.
I reject secular and “pious” optimism alike, on account of both their naïveté and their superficiality, and because of their unavowed striving to make the future (and possibly God) fit into our limited visions, plans, and perceptions about what is good and right. Whereas Christian hope is openness and a readiness to search for meaning in what is to come, I sense at the back of this caricature a cockeyed assumption that we always know in advance, after all, what is best for us.
-Night of the Confessor : Christian faith in an age of uncertainty / Tomáš Halík
After hiking down to a primitive campsite and then on down to the shoreline below it on Lake Argyle, I began searching for fall colors and hoping for a beautiful sunset. The sky was cloudless, however, and the autumn colors were not abundant (primarily because of the large numbers of oak trees whose leaves turn brown rather than colorful). Also, the water level was higher than normal so I couldn't walk along the shoreline as I had in years past.
After taking some photos, the light began fading rapidly and I prepared to pack up and leave. Then, I heard the commotion of a flock of geese on the water further down the lake but I couldn't see them in the shadows. Hoping that they might head my way, I focused the camera (mounted on a tripod) on the oposite shore and waited a few moments. Then, when I realized they were headed towards me, I pressed the shutter release for a series of bracketed shots. I thought that I missed them... but luckily, the under-exposed shot (in which they were not blurred) caught the geese in the position shown here--and I was anxious to get home to see how it turned out.
I used Photomatix to create this HDR rendition. I have Aurora also but could not figure out how to select the ghosting replacement to use the image with the birds exposed properly... I suspect it is possible but I just don't know how yet.
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Just as I pressed the button, this shieldbug took off, and I cursed assuming that I had (yet another) empty leaf shot.... but when I viewed the image to delete it, I realised that it had captured the event just at the right moment! Talk about lucky!!
Samois-sur-Seine - France
Giles Corey was accused of Witchcraft, by his neighbors and fellow townspeople and was pressed to death by piling stones upon him. Defiant to the end, he refused to plead guilty and instead kept telling his tormentors "More Weight"
Witches Memorial, Salem Massachusetts.
Baby was pressed up against my brothers window and wouldn't move. Im still thinking about him hoping he was just sleeping and wasnt hurt.
Hypomecis roborania (Geometridae)
Großer Eichenspanner
Im Schatten dicht an die Wand gepresst erlaubte mir dieser Falter kein ordentliches Porträit mit scharfen Augen usw. Aber „ein schöner Rücken kann auch entzücken“. 😊
Stativ, Einstellschlitten, Stack aus 60 Einzelbildern, Ausschnitt
Great oak beauty, Large oak moth
In the shadow pressed close to the wall this moth did not allow me a proper portrait with sharp eyes etc. But a german saying goes like this: "a beautiful back can also delight". 😊
tripod, focussing rail, stack of 60 images, crop
Vivitar 70-150mm f3.8 Close Focusing Auto Zoom
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