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"Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact”.

—Henri Cartier-Bresson

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NO GIFS AND ANIMATED ICONS, PLEASE!

Right in the forefront........

still experimenting

Theme Rules: A simple idea with many possibilities! For this challenge, include yarn somewhere in your photo. You could use fashion (a sweater, a scarf), feature it in a diorama (room decorations, a blanket on the couch), or show your doll shopping at a craft store or him/her knitting a project. You could even weave the yarn into your doll’s hair for an editorial portrait. Get creative!

This photo: Elizabeth spends her Sunday afternoon taking stock of all the Christmas presents she has crocheted (or purchased from the Crafty Rat) that she must now wrap. Her cat is proving no help as he wants to undo all the yarn she's carefully wound. :)

the macromonday theme for today (7/17) is texture. this is one of about 8 possibilities :) the painting itself is in the first comment box.

..........her art is on Instagram @interconnectedmoment

a macromonday possibility for the theme of bag :)

this is pretty and blue, but not close enough :):)

the macromonday theme for 10/2 is "found in the kitchen".

This detailed image features Abell 3827, a galaxy cluster that offers a wealth of exciting possibilities for study. It was observed by Hubble in order to study dark matter, which is one of the greatest puzzles cosmologists face today. The science team used Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to complete their observations. The two cameras have different specifications and can observe different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, so using them both allowed the astronomers to collect more complete information. Abell 3827 has also been observed previously by Hubble, because of the interesting gravitational lens at its core.

Looking at this cluster of hundreds of galaxies, it is amazing to recall that until less than 100 years ago, many astronomers believed that the Milky Way was the only galaxy in the Universe. The possibility of other galaxies had been debated previously, but the matter was not truly settled until Edwin Hubble confirmed that the Great Andromeda Nebula was in fact far too distant to be part of the Milky Way. The Great Andromeda Nebula became the Andromeda Galaxy, and astronomers recognised that our Universe was much, much bigger than humanity had imagined. We can only imagine how Edwin Hubble — after whom the Hubble Space Telescope was named — would have felt if he’d seen this spectacular image of Abell 3827.

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Massey; CC BY 4.0

Infinity Bridge at Stockton on Tees.

Worth a look in lightbox.

10-19-12

Lime Point Lighthouse

beneath the Golden Gate Bridge

Pasir Panjang, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.

Gifford Pinchot National Forest, WA, USA

   Abandoned industrial garage.

#MacroMondays #PickTwo a possibility.

This is probably the most 'damaged' of the eight or so possibilities for the theme for today, 6/14. (It’s the #broken #handle of one of the two baskets.) I’ll probably put them all up and then dither

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright. – Stephen King

Typical day of exploration... whacked my head going in... fell down the stairs going out... camera battery died. Got back to the car, ready to dive into my bag of the essential road trip food .... ripped the bag open... WHAT THE HECK?!! These aren’t Twizzlers!!! It’s a bag of toe warmers? Where the heck did I leave the Twizzlers... and where the heck were these toe warmers when we needed them?! *sigh*

A Saturday away from my desk... exploring with my favorite Urbexer.... PRICELESS!! ...even if I am pretty sure that my skinned knee is full of toxic dirt... (which I was later informed is probably more likely pigeon crap... not dirt ... not sure I needed that info!)

Back to work today with a bump on my head, a slightly swollen ankle and still some soreness on my leg where I walked into some kind of biting weed that attacked me right through my jeans (and they told us that we needed to stay on the paths because of racoons... and skunks.... or something like that.... never warned us of attacking weeds....) ... and good memories!!

(It's a iPhone photo... haven't gotten around to the shots out of the camera yet!)

Italy urbex roadtrip May 2018

online store: www.artfinder.com/tim-knifton

Instagram: www.instagram.com/Timster_1973

A window study by RDedekind.

Model: Krystanna Wycliffe

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From my files again. This cottage was on the grounds of the Life Saving Station (see yesterday’s post) and was refurbished with wood salvaged from the station. It was used by the Dept. of Transportation’s radio operator and his family.

Note the raised, wood walkway to the outhouse. The area was prone to flooding.

HMM-- the theme for today, 11/2, is halloween, so i thought i'd add a little sparkle to the photostream with this possibility.

"macro mondays" halloween possibility

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Contemplating the possibility.

Yes, I was standing in the middle of the street when I took this

this was a scavenge from an electronic something. i think it made noise since the other side is a round of circles :) it's probably the smallest of the possibilities

HMM........ the theme today, 7/6, is "squared circle"

this was one of the "also ran"s.. it's probably the smallest of the possibilities

"macro mondays" "squared circle" possibility

After having taken a photograph there are countless possibilities how to proceed in post processing. Sometimes this can give me quite a headache as with this image. I liked the subject and composition but wasn't quite sure how to really "absorb" the viewer into the forest. I tried a lot of different processing options and ended with a photo I liked but there was still something missing. After uploading it on Flickr I even replaced it three times but each version didn't feel "right" either...

So I forgot about the picture for a week or so until I came about a photography competition by the www.lens-flare.de/blog. I had another look at my photo and this time I tried a completely different approach by converting it into black and white, realizing that the colors had "distracted" me before. Now I was quite happy with the result and submitted it. Well, and guess what -- I even won the competition with my picture, which was quite a shock (albeit a pleasant one) for me.

I guess there are always countless possibilities -- not only with a certain subject but also what to do about it after having taken the photograph. And sometimes it pays off to just wait a few days and think about it before uploading it. So what do you think? Does it look better now? Or just different? I welcome your opinions...

Well; I had no luck while out and about yesterday. There wasn't too much kicking around in the hot afternoon sun. I think we were about half way through the walk when I knew it would be a garden macro sort of day.

I'm actually glad it worked out this way; I lucked out and spotted this guy on one of the stalks out in the garden. It took a couple tries but I finally managed to get the focus and framing just right.

Honestly, I don't think the beetle knew I was there.

Hope everyone has had a good day.

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With the possibility of no photography for a couple of weeks I was keen to get out somewhere today. I read a day or so back that the Cairngorm mountains had had the first of this autumn's snow and with the amount of recent rain I was also hoping for the fields around Ruthen Barracks to be flooded, so that was where I headed. As it turned out the snow had already melted and there was hardly a puddle to be seen around Ruthven. Wanting to get back to some 'big vista' landscape photography I decided to wait it out for sunset and captured this just as the sun dropped behind the Barracks, casting a lovely glow on the background hills. The clouds failed to colour while I was there but it looked to be quite a show in my rear view mirror 10 minutes after I drove away!

HMM- the theme for today, 5/25, is handle and this one is probably the cutest of the 3-4 macros that i'll put up.

Hope springs eternal.

The MM theme for today is redux 2020. This was a possibility that I **didn’t** choose- it’s a piece of glass and translucent with shades of the same blue color.

Be Inspired #Scotland

I see hope

I see inspiration

I see Scotland

The macro monday theme for tomorrow, 12/13, is bottle and this is one of my favorites of this particular white bottle. giggling. I don’t know if it will be my choice.

Seeds of change…

... It is tempting to stand at the corner of Real and Possible and decide to turn around and just go home. Taking with you the excitement of potential, never really knowing disappointment but not ever tasting the greatness either. Your life is a map though, complete with corners like these. So take a chance and head onto Possibility every once in a while.