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Macro Mondays theme "jagged and stone."
Leitz slide projector lens on M42 focusing helicoid with macro extension tube.
Explore June 14 2021.
An abstract macro of a small part of a glass sculpture, with the twisted glass in the foreground measuring approximately 2.5cm (1"). Taken for the Macro Mondays theme "Pick Two", with the first word 'twisted' and the second word 'glass'.
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"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
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Striped and Stone.
Well, given not many of us have striped stones laying around - like I do on a bookshelf, I thought it really just had to be done. So I picked two of them. Then I thought, why not decorate the arrangement with two flowers to brighten them up? So I picked two. How daft can you get!?
BTW - I dispute the observation that the arrangement resembles a floral beef burger.
Many thanks for all views, fav's - and particularly comments - all are greatly appreciated!
Happy Macro Mondays to you all!
Macro Mondays Theme: Pick Two (Twisted Plant)
I try and grow long, straight, slender carrots in my garden, but sometimes things don't work out as planned.
UN INSETTO FRASTAGLIATO. JAGGED INSECT
Tra le farfalle presenti in Italia, le farfalle macaone sono considerate, da molti, le più belle grazie alla particolare livrea e al volo leggiadro.
La farfalla macaone (nome scientifico Papilio machaon) è abbastanza comune nelle zone di campagna.
Le farfalle macaone presentano una livrea che richiama le più variopinte farfalle esotiche. Predomina il giallo-ocra delle ali, arricchite da macchie e nervature nere. Le ali posteriori terminano a coda dove si notano due macchie blu metallico e due punti rossi contornati di azzurro.
Le dimensioni del macaone vedono un’apertura alare di 7-8 cm.
CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. CANON EF 70-300 f./4-5,6 IS USM
The wing of this long-legged insect (crane fly?) is so delicate and fragile (and tasty?) that bits are missing from the under edge, as if something has been nibbling at it.
It had no difficulty however in flying away from me.
Steel slag for the Macro Monday's group, challenge Pick Two from two lists. I picked A. Metallic and B. Stone. This bit of steel slag is literally a metallic stone made up of partially melted iron ore (stone) coke, melted iron (metallic) and rust. If you look close you can see bits of those things in this man made Metallic Stone. I have boxed them for you.
Happy Macro Monday!
Macro Mondays
Theme: Pick Two
(Twisted - Candy)
January 21, 2019 (UTC)
Presented are two "twisted" Sour Neon Crawlers. Candy portion in this image is slightly less than two inches in length.
For MM this week the topic is ....
Pick Two .... from two lists
The first is a list of colours.
The second is a list of items.
Therefore I chose red out of the colour list, and a pen from the items list.
So I arrived at red & pen so I do hope my macro is what is required for this week.
Vintage Sheaffer red fountain pen ....
"Queen of Hearts"
#PickTwo "Red" + "Bottle Cap".
Macro Mondays, June 29th 2020
(Rodenstock Retina-Ysarex 1:2,8/50mm + extension tube + Schönbrunner Lang-Bräu Burggraf Dunkel)
The delicate Pearl Crescent is one of the most common butterflies of North America, but its small size (1 to 1.5”) keeps it from being as well known as the larger Monarch or Swallowtail. Note the striped antennae.
Brazos Bend State Park, Texas
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
~ Albert Einstein
IL GERANIO. RED FLOWER.
I gerani parigini, con la loro particolare conformazione a cascata, offrono fioriture spettacolari su terrazzi e balconi.
Arrivati a noi dal Sud Africa, i gerani parigini hanno in breve tempo ottenuti consensi in tutti i Paesi europei. La loro particolare conformazione ricadente permette infatti di inserirli in balconi e terrazzi per avere un effetto sempre molto scenografico.
Molto spesso sono visibili anche inseriti nelle apposite fioriere ed appesi alle ringhiere dei giardini.
CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. CANON EF 100 mm f./2,8 L Macro IS USM
My mother is an artist at heart. She's always been a musician, she's dabbled with painting, and she's been exceedingly fond of all paper art forms... gift wrapping, coloring, making postcards. A trip to the office supply store to get new pens used to make her giddy! For Mother's Day this year, I got her a quilling kit. What is quilling? Quilling, or paper filigree, is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. I knew she would love it. Because of COVID-19, the kit took over two months to arrive but she finally got it this weekend.
When I saw this week's Macro Mondays theme of "Pick Two," and one of the choices was paper, I asked her if she would create a design for me to use as my subject. This tiny teardrop is shaped out of a quarter-inch wide pink paper strip that she rolled to create this design. The entire shape is less than an inch big. It reminds me of the Fibonacci spiral. She has already created a gorgeous flower out of about a dozen tightly rolled circles and made crimped leaves for it as well. I can't wait to see more of her art!
Nearly legible on the bottle's shoulder '1795' - from when the family of Jose Cuervo for ten generations (so the bottle assures me) has made Tequila from the Blue Agave plant.
Cross-polarised pen case.
Well so much for my foray into desaturated colour photography :)
This week’s theme for Macro Mondays was twenty-five [edited] themes in one. What a super idea… Well that’s assuming that, as you are trying to think of what you might take for the theme, you can remember the ten [edited] words involved. Which I couldn’t. Completely forgot about fuzzy, though I had broken toys, twisted plants, spotted this and that all in my sights (can’t even remember rest of the nouns either).
But then I really had to choose iridescent abstract didn’t I?
Why? Well, first, I can’t spell iridescent for the life of me, so the practice was meant to be character-forming...
And second, I really love abstracts. But they are a minority taste I think, certainly compared to landscapes or birds or even macros. So poor lost and lonely abstracts needed some support…
And did I mention saturated colours? No? Probably a good thing really...
This is a Staedtler felt-tip pen case opened out and sticky taped onto my PC screen and then photographed using a polariser. The little rectangles in the image are the pixels on the LCD monitor providing the source light.
I rotated the image in processing to get the diagonal for some compositional impact. Probably should have done it in camera, but then I would need to be a better photographer wouldn’t I? :)
The case is two inches across so well within the limits for the group's submissions. Yey!
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays everyone :)
[In case you would like to try it this is how it was done.
A lot of plastic objects work ok; some don't have any effect - plastic rulers and CD cases are a good place to start.
1)The PC screen acts as a polarised light source. Set it to mainly white e.g. open a new Word document and maximise the window.
2)Place the object in front of the screen. I taped the case to the top edge of the screen (I'd be careful not to damage the screen itself with tape). You might just want to hold the object or prop it up.
3) With a polarising filter on the camera lens focus on the object.
4)For most intense colours rotate the filter until the white PC screen appears black.
5)Capture. If you want to in the processing adjust the black point so the black surround is truly black, increase saturation and vibrance.
And there you are.
Try lots of clear objects. Glass doesn't usually work. Many plastic do; cellophane wrapping and some plastic bags do.
The plastic is, in effect, twisting the light a bit so that some of the light passes through the camera's polarising filter. The amount of twist depends on the colour of the light so you get a rainbow for exactly the same reasons that you get a rainbow :).
Have fun!!
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