Macro Mondays : pick two

Papierserviette - Paper napkin

very simple ;))

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For Macro Mondays: "Pick Two" theme

(This glass globe is 2" in diameter)

My two words are "Iridescent" and "Glass"

(But they could also be "Speckled" and "Abstract")

There were 25 possible combinations to choose from in this week's theme and I think there are some wonderfully creative photos presented. I hope group members have enjoyed this sort of "choose your own" theme.

"Chafer the Gaffer"

I'm the garden chafer,

the metallic green gaffer,

i'll buzz and spray,

so keep out my way,

i'll trample your pansies,

spoiling all your fancies,

i'm big, i'm green, seldom seen,

i'm chafer the gaffer know what I mean! 🐞

Original Poetry

by: Sean

"Gaffer = Boss"

Metallic green rose chafer beetle, amid the blossoms, looking resplendent, they are considered a pest and can decimate flora, still they do look impressive like mini shining tanks.

They nibble pollen and sip nectar, but these little chaps

decimated my roses last year so they can definitely cause damage to the gardeners pride and joy!

A word of warning don't try grabbing them or you may get squirted, they have a nasty defence.

Of course they fly too buzzing about like small airborne tanks,

marvellous insects really, but the larvae are really ugly .... lets not go there! 😁

Metallic - Insect

This is going to be my choice for Macro Mondays this week I chose Metallic from the first five words and Insect from the second five words, hopefully concluding with ....

Metallic Insect

A green metallic beetle, a "Green Chafer Beetle."

Curves on the back of this jade elephant figurine.

Macro Monday - Pick 2

(Pink Flower)

A resilient, hardy fuchsia, Shrimp Cocktail is a fusion of marbled hot pink petals with a candy blush; each bloom totally unique

About four months ago this plant was in great shape... Have I told you I adopted a cat?

A small pad of yellow post it notes

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” —David Attenborough

I decided to try and create a scene out of just one piece of paper. The scene was looking a little flat until I decided to scrunch up the paper to create the rough ‘sea’. Please excuse the bad origami!

Just a little lightening and small saturation tweaks for processing.

First post with my new Samyang 75mm (with extension tubes).

HMM!

Blue Paper

"Macro Mondays" theme " Pick Two" red-paper

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For MACRO MONDAYS, this week’s theme: “Pick Two"

My pick is the pink flower: Dicentra 'King of Hearts'.

HMM!!!

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Macro Mondays Pick Two Challenge - Iridescent Abstract

Le soleil se couche et cette fleur jaune du nom de Pachystachys ou communément Panache de l'Officier devrait monter d'autres fleurs blanches entre ses bractées tôt demain matin. #Macro #MacroMondays #PickTwo #YellowFlower

Macro Monday - Pick two

Pick one from each list...

List A

1.Iridescent

2.Fuzzy

3.Twisted

4.Damaged

5.Speckled

List B

1. Glass

2. Toy

3. Candy

4. Plant

5. Abstract

I chose fuzzy and plant...I guess it's more fluffy than fuzzy but the background is kind of fuzzy. HMM

image data:

* Tamron 90mm f/2.8 lens, 2 sec, f/14, ISO 50, Nikon D610 body

* Macro Mondays – yellow flowers

Happy Macro Mondays!

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The object in the photo is a detail of a decoration ribbon, which you can use for crafting (e.g. for making cards or scrap books). this ribbon has a nice iridescent pattern. I thought I could use this to make a nice abstract picture.

curved insect 😉 for the theme #PickTwo in #MacroMondays. Ok, Seto, you were right of course: it is also a striped insect (on a striped blossom). HMM!

bee on chive blossom

Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro @f4

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ALTERNATE...

GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS

THEME: PICK TWO

SUBJECT: A BEE ON A CAR HOOD

(not quite an inch including open spaces)

BEES

Bees are insects with wings closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea. They are presently considered a clade, called Anthophila. There are over 16,000 known species of bees in seven recognized biological families.[1][2] Some species – including honey bees, bumblebees, and stingless bees – live socially in colonies while most species (>90%) – including mason bees, carpenter bees, leafcutter bees, and sweat bees – are solitary. - Wikepedia

Macro Mondays

theme: Pick Two

I picked Blue and Flower. Flower was about an inch wide.

Shot for Macro Mondays "pick two" theme.

Thanks for viewing and HMM!

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Macro Mondays

Pick Two

Metallic + Basket

Panier métallique

Red & Bottle Cap

Focus stacked - 6 images.

What a great theme this week. So many choices. HMM to you, dear Flickr friends.

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.

Fotodiox extension tubes 14mm + 7mm / Helios 44M-4 lens

An entry in Macro Mondays Pick Two Theme.

I picked Damaged from List 1 and Candy from List 2.

The broken peanut brittle pieces are grouped around the emblem on the box.

IMG_9692 Cropped

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Damaged Glass, a small broken light bulb.

For 'Macro Mondays' theme of 'Pick Two'.

'Yellow - Paper' and/or 'Blue - Flower'.

Sometimes I can leave the weekly challenge until the last minute, take a shot, and be reasonably pleased.

Not this week!

Started with an idea that morphed into something rather different, and then ran into all sorts of issues - lighting, that isn't unusual, then paper quality and my restricted manual dexterity.

The very small glass bottle rests on a sheet of tissue paper that extends into and makes the background. The paper came as part of the wrapping around a 'Father's Day' present and just had to find a use! But the creases and wrinkles ................... !

The 'Welsh Ring' flowers were made from thin strips of paper cut from the page of a catalogue - great colour and with a sheen. But because it was coated paper it didn't wrap around a paintbrush handle smoothly, and the 'flowers' aren't too even. As for getting, let alone arranging, five flowers in such a small jar I must be completely mad for trying.

After five attempts at setting up this little picture, I've now decided to do something more sensible like drinking a mug of tea.

Panasonic Lumix LF1 ................................................. less than 3 inches

Macro Mondays theme; Pick Two

One from each , list A and B

List A ...............List B

striped..............pottery

jagged............. insect

delicate ...........stone

curved .............brush

metallic.............basket

I choose delicate/insect, this is a 2" dragon fly wing.

I have a collection of insects who perished in my FL screen enclosure.

SOOC, HMM

A-Iridescent B-Abstract

Happy Macro Monday.

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Le soleil commence à s'éclipser et cette fleur d'Azalée du jardin attend avec impatience le lendemain matin pour s'épanouir entièrement. Sa couleur rosée contraste bien avec les feuilles qui l'entourent. #Macro #MacroMondays #PickTwo #PinkFlower

Curved and Pottery

HMM!

Macro Mondays: Pick Two

These curves belong to two small clay pots.

Dimension de la photo inférieur à 5 cm, prise avec deux bagues Fujifilm MCEX-11 et 16 objectif Fujinon XF 18-55mm

J'ai fait la mise point sur le sommet du pistil ou l'on peut voir des micros billes, que je suppose être le pollen.

Taken for Macro Mondays "Pick Two" theme.

*ღღ* Cosas de casa *ღღ* theme : Blue

Macro Mondays theme : "Pick Two"

#Blue #Paper

The blue paper boat is 2" long.

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This Dorset Damselfly is my choice for this week's Macro Mondays group theme of Pick Two - List A3 Delicate & List B2 Insect - HMM

#MacroMondays #PickTwo a possibility. This is the rim of one of the two baskets I used and one of the eight or so possibilities for the theme for today, 6/14. I’ll probably put them all up and then dither

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Macro Mondays: This week's theme is "Pick Two"

From the lists I selected "Blue" and "Paper"

This small, coiled strip of blue construction paper is 1-3/4" high.

With a nod to my favorite shade of blue 💙~~ "Yves Klein" blue.

Last Minute add to MM because I have been so busy. The only reason I remembered was because my son broke this little candy cane 😅

The 6/14/21 Macro Mondays theme was to pick two items from two lists posted in the group. I chose Metallic and Basket.

This image is of a wire egg basket, cobwebs included, that was used on the poultry farm on which my wife Sammy was raised during the 1940s and 50s. See it in the first comment.

Macro Mondays - Pick Two

This week we had to choose one word from each of 2 lists:

List A

1. Iridescent

2. Fuzzy

3. Twisted

4. Damaged

5. Speckled

List B

1. Glass

2. Toy

3. Candy

4. Plant

5. Abstract

I chose Damaged Glass.