Found in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

The 1/21/19 theme for Macro Mondays is Pick Two, one from a list of descriptive words and one from a list of nouns. So, I picked damaged glass.

#MacroMondays #PickTwo .... a possibility.

This may be the most useful of the eight or so possibilities for the theme for today, 6/14. I’ll probably put them all up and then dither

These forgotten candies spent years in the pocket of my bag....

A pink flower that is currently aiming to take over the world, starting with my back garden!

For the Macro Theme Pick Two, this is Striped Insect. The bee is about 1/2 inch long and the lavender bud not quite two inches in length

Pink flower

Helios + Extensión tubes

The tip of a blue Crayola marking pen on a sheet of yellow paper.

Edge-to-edge size is approximately 6mm/.25".

Star Wars Chewbacca "Bottle Cruncher Dog Toy"... ;-)

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HMM!!!

Nikon D7100 + Tokina 100mm f/2.8 FX Macro Lens (AT-X M100 AF PRO D AF 100mm f/2.8)

+ Neewer 750II Speedlite Flash + mini soft-box (BOUNCED)

f/14 @ 1/60 @ iso 800

(tweaked in Smart Photo Editor)

I've missed the last couple of Macro Mondays challenges and thought I better try harder this week. Fortunately we have been having a massive clearout and I came across a few of my mother-in-laws old paperweights. The challenge for this coming Monday is called “Pick Two” and the rules are quite simple. They have created two lists of words, “List A” and a “List B” and placed 5 words in each list. You will select one word from List A and one word from List B and then take a macro image illustrating the combination of your two chosen words.

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've picked "Iridescent Glass". The paperweight is quite strange. In strong light it is just red but vary the light and the iridescent transparent coating takes over and 'moves' around the surface displaying the gold, pinks and blues that you see above, over the red bubbled interior. Some of my favourite colours in there! What a beauty! (and only 2.5 inches diameter)

Pink flower for Macro Mondays Pick Two theme. This pretty miniature rose is only 1cm in diameter

A maroon Fisher Space Pen on an air mail envelope, for #MacroMondays #PickTwo

Taken at 1:1 magnification. The pen is approximately 10mm in diameter at its widest.

Damaged candy - It’s an Easter almond from last Easter, strongly gripped by pliers. I tried to transform it in another world - www.flickr.com/gp/maria__fernandes/52WPoy

Pick two - Macro Mondays

The bottle cap is from a milk bottle. The paper is 2" long.

All rights reserved. Please do not use or reproduce this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my permission.

Yashica M42 1:1.9 Yashinon-DS

Kenko Extension Tubes

36mm+20mm

160/365

Red caps of soy sauce bottles.

Old copper mesh basket hanging in the kitchen. I store garlic, onions, shallots in it.

Macro Mondays: Pick Two

List A: 5. Metallic

List B: 5. Basket

Taken for Macro Mondays group, theme 'Pick Two'. Week 26/2020.

This was in my garden and taken in natural light and the breeze. It's cropped to 16x9 but otherwise straight out of the camera.

7 artisans manual 35mm, sony a6000, 10x macrodiopter.

Processed with VSCO with f2 preset

I was doing some yard work earlier this year and came across someone's long lost toy car.

This is the bottom view of a flower frog.

For Macro Mondays Pick Two Curved Pottery. A headpiece that broke off a clay face mask purchased years ago in Costa Rica. Lit with a mix of ambient light, red-filtered flashlight and a LED bulb inserted into the piece where it was broken. Resting on a vest.

The two words I have chosen are Damaged/Toy.

Our cat Misty has had great fun in attacking this little toy; and as you can see one of its hands is missing and its legs are severely damaged too!

Damaged plant

As I was going through the ward looking for something I found this little yellow weed and thought this should do just fine.

Thanks for taking the time viewing my photo, I welcome any feedback you might have good or bad this will help me to become a better photographer in the long run. Thanks in advance.

Photo taken for the June 14, 2021 Macro Mondays theme: pick two. My choices were striped + brush.

I think the bristles came this way...although the rust is not from the factory. ;)

The bristles are approx. 1" across.

#MacroMondays #PickTwo

Striped+Insect equals this Red-headed Ash Borer

A Macro Mondays submission on the topic "Pick two". The challenge was to pick an adjective and noun from two lists and I have chosen "yellow flower". Just to carry the theme further, here are two yellow flowers! The Australian wildflower Hibbertia linearis, or Guinea flower, photographed in Manly Dam, a wildlife reserve near my home.

Fancy way to broke your glass of wine...

It was just waiting to be eaten!

"Iridescent Abstract"

Little red stone fell into water, was shot under water surfice

I have been enjoying my amaryllis plant for over a month now. This was the first out of four blossoms to bloom. Now it's petals have withered and twisted.and yellow, fuzzy pollen dusts my table top. HMM

head view of a woodlouse, curved insect for Macro Monday. Courtesy of my cat, who likes killing them and for once didn't eat this one. Could also fit the pick two rules with jagged or delicate perhaps instead of curved?

Shot with tripod, remote trigger and ringlight from above and daylight from the side. Cropped in Digikam and cleaned some muck in the background from my lens in Gimp.

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Glyn Nelson

Walking though the backyard I found a small branch on the ground that had fallen as the result of a windy evening. While the branch itself was "dead", rotted and fragile, the outside was covered in life. There were many different forms of lichen, micro-lichen, moss, algae and fungus - what I learned long ago as the "de-composers" of the forest - all on this one small foot-long piece limb.

This is a series of three different parts of that branch, 2 or 3 inches apart, but filled with different types of de-composers. While most of this 1 inch spot on the branch is covered in lichen, there appears to be a tall stalk of moss sticking upwards (it is probably 1/4 inch (6-7 mm) or so in size.

This image is the result of a 15 image stack of macro photo's taken and merged in Photo Shop. Two indoor 2700 lamps were placed on either side for lighting. Feel free to ZOOM IN on the image to see these magnificent structures up close; you may not have seen anything like this before!

To see the tabletop set up used to take this image, which also provides an indication of scale, please take a look at: www.flickr.com/photos/jfleckenstein/32884523088/

Comments and constructive feedback are always appreciated!

munich's landmark

This is a free work especially for the Macro Monday challenge | Dies ist eine freie Arbeit speziell für die Macro Monday Herausforderung.

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Peacock Feathers

The last 9 months have been a little bit crazy and I've gotten away from doing things I enjoy doing for myself. This weekend I returned to teaching myself how to do some simple water coloring by buying some tubes of paint and a book that will teach me step by step. First lesson complete and enjoyed. It's nothing I plan on sharing with anyone just something to do for my own well being. Getting back to participating in Macro Mondays is a goal too. I believe this is my first post of this year. HMM!

Macro Mondays - Pick Two - Red Paper

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Damaged plant www.flickr.com/groups/macromonday/discuss/72157704307386391/