!* Gold Sealings Memories ♠ NO FLOWERS/PORTRAITS! ♠
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Spring's sealing; flowers' blossom.
Trying to avoid a stereotypical flower photo, I came up with this idea...
...Said everyone's favourite Borg Seven of Nine after smoking some... No, no, not what you think ;) But this semi-translucent, lavender-coloured fluorite, which consists of many cubic shaped crystals with many #corners, has always reminded me of a Borg cube. Albeit a rather psychedelic, flower power, rock'n'roll-type of Borg cube, because the way the cubic crystals are shaped and arranged also conveys a certain kind of cheerful chaos. And lavender also definitely isn't your typical Borg colour. Which makes this a peace and love hippie Borg cube :)
Explored January 10, 2022
Photographed with the M.Zuiko 30mm F3.5 macro lens, the 60mm's little brother. Unlike the 60mm, which is a "true" macro lens with a 1:1 magnification, the 30mm gives you a magnification of 1,25 (2,5 in the MFT world). The fantastic Laowa 50mm Ultra Macro lens offers even more magnification (Goodbye extension tubes!), and it's still on my list, but Olympus – or rather OM System, as the company is called now – had a lens promotion, so I was able to get this already very affordable lens literally dirt-cheap, so I went for it. It's not a pro lens like the 60mm, it's all plastic, no weather sealing etc., but it supports the in-camera focus stacking function, and together with the 16mm extension tube and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens (which I've both used for this shot) it's only as long as the 60mm without any extensions. And last, but not least, the image quality is excellent, too. Of course it won't replace my trusty 60mm, but it's a great addititon to it with its extra magnification (and the length of this technical description gives away that I still had to justify the purchase for myself, because Santa had already brought me another new lens). The minimum focusing distance is a mere 14 cm (5,51 inches) which means that you can get really close to your photographic subject, and with extension tubes and close-up lens mounted that focusing distance shrinks considerably once again. In fact, for this image I was so close that the Raynox close-up lens actually touched the upper part of the fluorite. Soft light from above prevented shading from the lens (to which it is prone also without extensions due to the super short focusing distance). OK, enough tech talk, more info on the programmes used for post processing is in the tags ;)
P.S. Thank you wolli s for the tip to slightly oil the subject after dusting it to keep it lint-free, it works!
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, have a nice week ahead, and stay safe!
I'll catch up with you tonight!
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7DWF - Flora
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Wax seals were used to ensure the security and secrecy of important documents. Throughout the ages, they were used by governments and royalty, and each had their own characteristic designs to confirm the identity of the sender.
HMM!
Macro Mondays: Anachronism
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Another version of a series shot a few years ago. The mountain is Mount Edgecombe and has been rumbling in the last year. It popped once. Many boats from the local salmon/halibut fisheries.
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Contractor Norman Hudson's crew at work resealing the old ArcusStone stucco finish on this Fountaingrove mansion. Norman did the entire wall finish of this mansion twenty years ago, inside and out, and it still looks quite good, but it needed some resealing.
The last rainstorm of the season provided some cloud spectacle.
when you pop the cork, inside each bottle you will find...
a bit of the earth... the soil that helped feed the grapes
the minerals in the dirt; the minerals of France, Oregon, Italy, Portugal, California...
the sunshine
the rain and the wind and the hands...
the hands that cared for the grapes, tended and toiled with them and bottled them for your enjoyment
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A wee flower to apologise for lack of commenting! Unfortunately today resulted in a bad migraine from the fumes of the painting and sealing that I did yesterday in the bathroom! I knew it was coming as I was very hyperactive last night which is one of many pre cursors to them!! So I spent today in bed.... finally managed to get up around 4 but feel like I have done a few rounds in the ring with an elephant!!! Hopefully back on form tomorrow and able to finish the woodwork in the bathroom!! Have a lovely evening folks.xx
I promise this is the last in my mating Avocet series. In this one, they strut off together, still with appearing locked beaks as though he's sweeping her off on their honeymoon. This particular image SO reminded me of a World War II image, the iconic sailor embracing a nurse in Times Square, and a much bigger than lifesize statue named "Unconditional Surrender" sculpted after the photo image. The statue is quite impressive, in a park area near the USS Midway moored in San Diego, CA. There's actually a series of statues there as well of Bob Hope entertaining the troupes.
Whether it be rivers, roads, tracks in fields -I've got a thing about meandering curves, and I know I'm not the only one!
A lot of us develop it.
Here one of my all time favourite trees; the invaluable Japanese maple variety "Sango Kako" formerly "Senkaki"
or coral bark maple, displays not only its glowing sealing wax red bark, but also the flowing curves which make up its elegant and graceful form.
The red & orange stemmed dogwoods & willows are also beautiful but not in the same league for intense colour & habit.
Had to use the 300mm lens to isolate the curving branch, so you don't get the full effect here but artistically it did what I wanted & gave the Bokeh of course.
Every afternoon around 3pm in my garden the sun lights up this tree & it glows brighter than any tree or shrub in full flower from October through to April - hope you like it :)
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A pair of Eastern Bluebirds in the yard.
Lowell Township, Michigan
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I accomplished another York Rail shot that I've been wanting for some time on a recent trip to the line. This one, like the last one, came up unexpectedly. With the road job heading into the yard at West York at a much earlier hour than expected, this local/yard job had come out. They met at a small siding near Frito Lay and this "westbound" continued on through the middle of Pennsy Supply Inc. quarry at Thomasville, PA.
There they used the run-around to get to the east end of the train and went east about a mile where they backed into Church & Dwight Co., better known as Arm & Hammer.
There are numerous industrial and scenic shots along G&W's York Rail, one could spend weeks trying to get them all. Chase conditions can be challenging too, especially in thee urban York area where one would be better off chasing with an electric scooter than four wheels, but with several pairs of neat little GP15s doing the work, it's all worthwhile.
"When a dragonfly flutters by,
you may not realize,
but it's the greatest flier in nature.
It can hover,
fly backwards,
even upside down."
~ Louie Schwartzberg ~
Thus being said, I guess it's appropriate that the seal had a mind of its own as it landed sideways upon imprint! I've become obsessed with sealing wax and have even dug out some old art upon which to practice! In this case the dragonfly was an old silk screen I printed over 30 years ago . . .
now it's ready to fly away to someone's mailbox!
In the past, sealing wax was used for closing letters, envelopes and packs, in order to prevent undesired reading or theft of contents.
Nowadays, the use of sealing wax is decorative rather than effective.
For Macro Mondays' theme "Safety" HMM
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Penduline Tit - Remiz pendulinus
The Eurasian penduline tit or European penduline tit (Remiz pendulinus) is a passerine bird of the genus Remiz. The genus name is the Polish word for the Eurasian penduline tit, and pendulinus is Latin for "hanging down”, which refers to its nest.
It is relatively widespread throughout Eurasia. The breeding range of the species in Western Europe experienced an expansion during the 1980s and 1990s. This was accompanied by an expansion of the species’ winter range and reached as far south as northern Morocco.
It builds an elaborate hanging nest, formerly used in Central Europe as children's slippers.
The common name of the family reflects the tendency of most species to construct elaborate pear-shaped nests. These nests are woven from spiderweb, wool and animal hair and soft plant materials and is suspended from twigs and branches in trees. The nests of the African genus Anthoscopus are even more elaborate than the Eurasian Remiz, incorporating a false entrance above the true entrance which leads to a false chamber. The true nesting chamber is accessed by the parent opening a hidden flap, entering and then closing the flap shut again, the two sides sealing with sticky spider webs.
Explore Apr 1, 2018 #281
The owl butterflies, the genus Caligo, are known for their huge eyespots, which resemble owls' eyes. They are found in the rainforests and secondary forests of Mexico, Central, and South America.
Owl butterflies are very large, 65–200 mm (2.6–7.9 in), and fly only a few meters at a time, so avian predators have little difficulty in following them to their settling place. However, the butterflies preferentially fly in dusk, when few avian predators are around. The Latin name, Caligo means darkness, may possibly refer to their active periods .
Red Sealing Wax Palm... yes, they really are this color! Stunning against brightly lit greenery.
Red Sealing Wax Palm, Lipstick Palm, Rajah Palm, Cyrtostachys renda
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL