For once MM did not receive any liquid on her

Macro Mondays: Pick two

Redux 2021 Smoke and Holes

These delicate little flowers are just over 1/2 " wide.

Twisted (and speckled) Plant: side view of a small groundcover my neighbor gave me (I don't know the name, but it's been spreading). For #MacroMondays #PickTwo

June 29, 2020

Macro Mondays Theme: Pick Two

Subject size: 2cm diameter

Photo size, subject + negative space

3cm x 2cm

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

Mother Teresa

HMM!

Iridescent glass

#56 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby

Macro Monday - Pick two - I chose pottery and curves.

This is a tiny coffee cup and saucer from a set I bought from a charity shop some time ago. In the saucer are some little petals that came about by accident. One night I took some Gaviscon (a pink liquid to ease heartburn) and must have spilt a drop on the worktop. When I came down the next morning there was a pretty pink dried Gaviscon petal. I instantly thought how nice that might look in a photo so made some more.

I used my Lensbaby Sweet 35 and macro converter. I find it incredibly hard to get perfect focus with this lens but like the soft focus and blur from the Sweet so will embrace the blur...a term I love and have borrowed from Flickr friend Andrew www.flickr.com/photos/ajhaysom/ HMM

Angelonia blossoms. From my garden.

Illumination = early daylight.

Für "Macro Mondays" Thema "Pick Two" am 29.06.2020.

- Pink & Flower -

A "Happy Macro Monday" and stay healthy!

A striped brush.

More precisely, it's a sonic toothbrush replaceable head, whose stripes race side-to-side at roughly 250 hertz, or 15,000 oscillations per minute, to do its plaque-busting task. (For comparison, the electricity from your outlet alternates at 50 or 60 Hz, depending on your country.)

The stripes are not all show and no go. The dye in the dark blue pair of bristles fade with use, giving a visual indication the brush head needs replacing.

Bottle cap on a bottle of hard apple cider in the color of the namesake fruit.

For the Macro Monday challenge "Pick Two" (January 21st 2019)

A fascinating challenge this week! Loved it! To pick a subject and then an adjective to describe it - and make a 3" macro to match the two that you have chosen

List A: Iridescent, Fuzzy, Twisted, Damaged, Speckled

List B: Glass, Toy, Candy, Plant, Abstract

I've been shooting two glass vases that have twists in the glass, looking for interesting effects. So I was drawn to "Twisted Glass" as my combination. This shot is not from the vases, but a small liqueur glass with a twisted stem and holder for the 'cup'. The portion I shot is shown in the first comment field, set against the 2x3" credit card I use as my size guide for MM

Happy Macro Monday! ;o)

Shot with the Lensbaby double-glass optic and +10 macro filter

My site Talking Digital Photography where I am collecting together all the articles I have published online together with smaller blog posts of images not always posted here on Flickr.

2019 Macro Mondays here

Lensbaby "double-glass": Here

The theme for this picture is "pottery" and "curved". Both the markings and the shapes are curved here. This piece is from a small collection of German pottery from the 1950's which have a similar kind of colour and very distinctive graphic markings.

Only a single petal of a Winter rose

For Macro Mondays. This week’s theme: “Pick Two".

My Choice is "Speckled + Glass": frost crystals on the Cold Cellar Window.

Extreme cold warning for Southern Ontario Canada on Sunday as it was -25C and a wind chill values of -40 C.

HMM

♥ Thank you very much for your visits, faves, and kind comments ♥

June 14, 2021

Macro Mondays Theme: #picktwo

I choose curved pottery or delicate pottery.

Subject size 3.5 cm x 2.5 cm

Happy Macro Mondays everyone

For todays Macro Monday theme of pick two, I chose Pink and Flower. This is a macro of the center of a coneflower. It's about 3/4" wide in this pic. I loved that there's a few teeny white fuzzy things in there too. A nice surprise when I opened the pic in Lightroom. HMM :-)

The Macro Mondays group theme for 6/15. This is a miniature vase for macro monday "Pick Two" theme - Choosen words curved Pottery.

#MacroMondays #CurvedPottery

Yellow and bottle cap. Time for a clean.

Many thanks for all views, fav's - and particularly comments - all are greatly appreciated!

Happy Macro Mondays to you all!

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Macro Monday Theme "Pick Two". My picks are "Red" and "Paper". Had some fun making a tiny paper pinwheel. Part of it came undone, but I thought it added to the composition.

Rose.

Für“Happy Macro Mondays“

Thema:“Pick Two“ am 14.06.2021.

Thanks for views,faves and comments:-)

Coke: it's the real thing. Nothing else compares. It is unquestionably King. Pepsi is cool, but only for when there's no Coca-Cola.

This week's Macro Mondays theme is to pick two, one from each list of:

A Colour: Red, blue, Yellow or pink

and

An item from: a flower, bottle cap, paper or pen.

Unless you've been in total lock down for the last 128 years or so you will recognise the red bottle cap I picked.

Thanks Basse for the box of a few thousand bottle tops you sent! Whatever it is it always tastes better out of a chilled glass bottle! Plastic? It's all so passe.

a possibility for MM “pick two”

Macro Mondays

"Pick Two"

Macro Mondays theme Pick Two - Red & Paper

Made of paper, this is the tummy section of a little origami rat/mouse made by a lovely Chinese lady we once knew. She made it to cheer one of our kids up for their birthdays and to mark the Chinese Year of the Rat a number of years ago when they were very unwell. The red section measures just under 4cm across at it's widest point.

Happy Macro Mondays!

Macro-Mondays-Pick Two (Delicate Insect)

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These little bugs are so friendly, this one landed in front of me and didn't move the whole time I was photographing it. I picked Delicate Insect for today's theme.

This busy Bumble Bee (aren't they all) is gathering pollen from a "pink flower" (wild rose) in our back garden.

You can see the pollen sack on this Bumble Bee's back leg. Bumbles on average will return home carrying an extra 25% of its body weight in pollen.

HMM everyone

For this weeks Macro Mondays theme 'Pick Two' I used the colour pink and the item flower to make this image. HMM

I picked Twisted and Glass... the wire is twisted and it goes through a tiny glass bead. This is around a small votive type scented candle... also glass.

Two naturally white subjects, the white inchworm and the white flower on a chili plant for Smile on Saurday theme 'Natural White'.

A 'striped insect' for Macro Mondays theme 'Pick Two'.

Having spent several days playing around with other combinations for Pick Two (not overly happy with anything), I went into my greenhouse yesterday to do some watering and found this tiny caterpillar on one of my chili plants when I was checking for aphids. Moving the plant to a more photogenic location resulted in the caterpillar adopting this pose by standing on its prolegs at the posterior end and holding motionless long enough for a focus stack. I suspect this is a type of inchworm - larva of the Geometridae family of moths. I have seen inchworms perform this behaviour before in an attempt to fool a predator into thinking the inchworm is a small twig - but I have never seen a white one before, and it would have to be a pretty poor predator that would think this was a twig!

This was shot with a Raynox DCR-250 mounted on my macro lens, so it wasn't until I looked closely when processing that I realised the caterpillar had tiny stripes - theme sorted for this week!

The title was inspired by a 1965 recording by the McCoys: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcHqUGZ6leI

No caterpillars were harmed in the making of this photograph.

Macro Mondays 'pick two' theme.

My two are 'delicate' (or 'curved') and 'pottery'.

My second submission as my first was rejected - the first time in nearly five years in the group that that has happened. 😢 😊

The figurine measures just on 2" and the widest point

dav

There shall be bright morning after the dark times....

Pick two for macro mondays. My picks are damaged and plant.

My cat's "fuzzy toy". HMM!

in a Medronho glass

One of my attempts at the "Macro Mondays" theme "Pick Two"

Chosen Words:

CURVED BASKET

Shot with an "Tomioka-Copal 75 mm F 2.8" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.

Macro Mondays Pick Two (Fuzzy+Plant )

I wasn't sure at first if porcelain is classed as pottery, but thankfully it is. This tiny dish is raw, unglazed porcelain and was thrown by hand on a wheel. It's 1¼" in diameter and it's certainly a challenge to photograph! I found the feather and tiny white flower in the garden. Without them, you'd barely be able to see the main subject. :)

For this week's Macro Mondays group theme, Pick Two. This would fit either delicate or curved, but I'll go with delicate. My chosen words are, therefore, Delicate from List A and Pottery from List B.