Iridescent Glass

... good thing I was there with macro lens

Harry Potter Hufflepuff editions

“Macro Mondays” "Pick Two" Yello Flower

A Cuckoo Wasp emerging from another wasp's nest on the wall of our holiday cottage at Cowan Head.

The Macro Mondays theme for this week is "Pick Two" There are two lists of words. List A (adjectives) and List B (nouns). Photo is a "Metallic" "Brush"

Mellow Yellow bottle-cap drowning in our local "Ottakringer" brew - recently awarded European Gold Medals.

Taken with a special version of the well-known and highly regarded SMC Pentax-M 50mm f:1.7 lens, mounted on a helicoid extension-tube, with the camera on a 3-way head and focusing-rack, just to make things easier!

Within the optical system the lens has been fitted with a concentrically-bored metal disc, and was one of a pair used for stereo photography - so it would be something of a half-truth to claim that it's unique! Anyway, that's what creates the unusual bokeh.

The bottle-cap is resting on a very mundane and well-used pot-scrub, and lit-up with Manfrotto LEDs fitted with yellow filters to achieve the bubbly beery gold effect.

Processed from RAW in SILKY PIX Developer Studio Pro 9.

Dark-room style techniques only. NO HDR! NO Photoshop!

PENTAX K-1

HMM!

PS. Thanks to Simon's utak and OzzRod for their inspiration to experiment with bokeh-shapes!

This is the tiny flower of the Blue-eyed Grass

Common house moth.

Macro Mondays June 14 theme: Pick Two

"Delicate Insect"

Shot using a reversed Minolta 35-70mm lens on a Nikon d750.

Hedged my bets with a double whammy :)

Macro Mondays: June 29, 2020

Theme: Pick Two

Two lists... pick one from each:

1. Colors

Red

Yellow

Blue

Pink

2. Items

Paper

Flower

Pen

Bottle cap

I picked Yellow and Paper

I'm still working out my technique, but the idea is to create a series of oil sheen abstracts. In this case, the 'oil' is really clear nail polish on a two inch water puddle.

June 29, 2020

Iconic Cape Cod blue hydrangea petals.

(a "MacroMondays" submission, theme "pick two" HMM!)

Brewster, Massachusetts

Cape Cod - USA

Photo by brucetopher

© Bruce Christopher 2020

All Rights Reserved

...always learning - critiques welcome.

Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 11.

No use without permission.

Please email for usage info.

Unfortunately, this fireball was damaged in the making of this photograph!

Macro Mondays

the beaks on our giant coffee mugs - red for me and blue for Mike

MM - pick two

"Pick Two": 1) Fuzzy, 2) Abstract

Q-tips (cotton swabs)

Twisted Abstract.

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Macro Mondays theme: Pick Two (Fuzzy Toy)

HMM

Canon IXUS 265 HS

A blue pen...

"The Meisterstück Solitaire Blue Hour LeGrand introduces itself as a precious, blue lacquered Solitaire product with platinum-coated fittings. The magical hour between daylight and night - the Blue Hour - creates a smooth contrast and breathtaking mood, which served as design inspiration. The hexagon pattern on the barrel and cap reflects the refraction of lights and night traffic in urban cities." montblanc.com

red flower with fly

Tendril of a Passion Flower (Passiflora caerulea). Kew Gardens

peanut shells and can tab stacked and trashed,/macro diopter used.

Macro Mondays: Pick Two

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Macro Mondays theme: Pick Two

Curved Brush

"Head Jog 08 Straw Brush (Raspberry) is an environmentally-friendly brush which massages the scalp and can be used to detangle wet or dry hair. Manufactured from polymerised, renewable biomass material, such as straw, rice husk and plastic, in a process with zero carbon emission, it has an ergonomic, loop design with double curve which provides flexibility and fits perfectly to the scalp. Flexible soft pin bristles massage the scalp, are kinder to the hair, and minimise breakage."

Frankly, I purchased this product on the strength of the name. For the first time in 25 years we have two bathrooms and I needed a brush in each one. It looks really cool hanging on the wall but it is a little wimpy for detangling. It does feel nice stroking against my elderly scalp.

Macro Mondays - Pick Two

"Pink Flower" thistle flower for Pick Two theme

Select one descriptive word here:

List A

1. Striped

2. Jagged

3. Delicate

4. Curved

5. Metallic

Select one object to photograph:

List B

1. Pottery

2. Insect

3. Stone

4. Brush

5. Basket

Macro Mondays Theme: Pick Two

Delicate Insect

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Arthropoda

Class Insecta

Order Odonata

Family Coenagrionidae

Genus Coenagrion

Species Coenagrion angulatum

CMWD_Green

Delicate Insect: A little solitary mining bee coming in to land on white micro clover flowers

HMM!

Beverage Ice bar effect with UV light. Macro, achromatic diopter.

Minolta MD W.Rokkor 2.8 / 24mm @ Alpha 7ii

and reverse ring and Novoflex bellows, scale approx. 8:1

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Red Pen

Chinon 50mm lens with 42mm extension tubes.

Red for weekends and holidays, Green for the rest of days.

sony a6000, mf 35mm seven artisans, macrodiopter.

HMM

MacroMonday Pick Two

damaged toy

Old Man Cactus

A close up of a 1/2 inch crack in a glass.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

iridescent vase it's underneath you can see the colour change.

Group: Macro Mondays

Theme: Pick Two - Twisted Candy

For anyone in doubt, Twizzlers! Actually, a twisted Twizzler - (Key Lime Pie flavor)

One descriptive word

1. Striped

2. Jagged

3. Delicate

4. Curved

5. Metallic

One object

1. Pottery

2. Insect

3. Stone

4. Brush

5. Basket

Group: Macro Mondays

Theme: Fill The Frame

Tiny pink flowers - I don't know what they are but they are from a small bush.

HMM!

This pottery was handmade in Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI.

Curved Pottery.

This is a detail of the spoon in the picture: flic.kr/p/2m5yaqG

For Flickr group "MACRO MONDAYS", topic: "Pick Two"

Pick Two Macro Mondays

Honey bee on flag iris for Macro Mondays