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I love colour and all things iridescent (which some of you may know), so when I chose this spectacle frame, I didn't pick a model from the Oakley HSTN collection of prescription glasses, but one from the "HSTN Metal" sunglasses collection. Why? Because the temples are constructed with a mix of semi-translucent/clear/matte plastic and anodised, colourful metal parts (whereas the prescription frames are entirely made of plastic or acetate and therefore are easier to adjust). The metal parts of my glasses' temples are pretty stiff and not as comfy as the acetate would have been, but who cares if there are shimmering parts? Not me ;)
The original frame came with rather flashy, mirrored glasses ("Prizm Violet"), which my optician replaced with self-tinting lenses according to my prescription. And since I also have other pairs of glasses, the slight discomfort of this particular frame doesn't matter much at all.
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A classic: I took a few first shots, thought "This is nice, maybe I should take a look at the images first," and then simply continued taking photos with differently coloured smiley beads, from different angles (and yes, that short, golden-glittery ribbon was hard to handle because it kept twisting) – of course without taking a look first. And then I ended up using one of the first photos anyway. Duh. Actually, the very first set of (focus-stacked) photos was that of an autumn leaf. It turned out very nice, and I will also upload it this week because it's too nice not to. I will explain on Wednesday why I didn't pick it for our "Dutch Angle" theme.
Back to the smiley: The golden-glittery ribbon that once belonged to a small present bag originally was one part of my second idea for last Monday's "Cogwheel". Just for fun, I had placed the plastic cogs on the ribbon and I liked the bokeh the quite roughly woven fabric created. But it somehow didn't make much sense to put cogs on a glitter ribbon except that it looked nice, and since the theme's focus was on the cogs, not on bokeh, I discarded the idea for later. And "later" already happened to be yesterday. So does it make sense to put a smiley bead on a golden ribbon? No, but it looks nice.
For the smiley photo, I used the Laowa Ultra Macro lens because it creates such nice bokeh and because I only needed a single shot for this idea anyway. To enhance the bokeh, I used the small gold-coated cardboard cake board that I held above the ribbon (illuminated by a single LED lamp from the right). I also used an LED lamp from the left, set to a lower angle, to illuminate the smiley bead. I had considered backlight (which I had used for the leaf) but it took away contrast from the semi-translucent bead, so I stuck to my two light sources.
Processing: I did the basics in DXO PhotoLab 8 and Lightroom and did some minor enhancements in Color Efex such as "Brilliance and Warmth" and "Detail Extractor" for some parts of the bokeh.
HMM, Everyone!
Found at Mayville Ledge Beech-Maple Woods SNA in east-central Wisconsin. Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA.
Found in mixed hardwood forest. Found on the trunk of a dead fallen debarked hardwood tree. I was checking some Stemonitis clusters growing on the tree for slime mold beetles, when this beauty ambled up and started chomping on the blackened tips of this clump. While looking through the viewfinder and taking shots I could actually see, through its semitranslucent head, chunks of spores going down it's 'throat'.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-26EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie and plastic cup diffuser.
Found at Mayville Ledge Beech-Maple Woods SNA in east-central Wisconsin. Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA.
Found in mixed hardwood forest. Found on the trunk of a dead fallen debarked hardwood tree. I was checking some Stemonitis clusters growing on the tree for slime mold beetles, when this beauty ambled up and started chomping on the blackened tips of this clump. While looking through the viewfinder and taking shots I could actually see, through its semitranslucent head, chunks of spores going down it's 'throat'.
There's a cute little globular springtail, possibly Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus, at base of slime mold.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-26EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie and plastic cup diffuser.
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On the theme of travelling and being hungry for new experiences: you want to see new places and meet the people who live there while avoiding being influenced by other travellers' opinions (or at least I do). That way you are open to all sorts of possibilities, which brings me to Yamaguchi city.
My problem with it, through no fault of its own, is that it has appeared on the New York Times' "52 places to visit in 2024" list (which, annoyingly, I only discovered after I had arranged the visit). The article nominated the city for, among other things, its five-story pagoda, its youthful coffee entrepreneurs and its friendly laid-back vibe. All power to the author, who writes well, and to the city, which has all those good things, but I'd rather tread softly around the peripheries than follow the path beaten by the NYT. That meant I was obliged to look for a different Yamaguchi city. Did I find it? Well, no and then yes.
My first day, a Sunday, was a washout. I took a long hot walk through the suburbs, which were attractive but low-key (except for some sports fields which I couldn't get into because they were part of a school, and a gymnasium which I was not allowed to enter because it was private and belonged to the police). Then I visited some museums seeking local inspiration: the folklore museum was interesting but very small; the prefectural museum was OK but mainly for kids; and the prefectural art museum was closed. Still searching for new angles, I shuffled down the long shopping arcade, where I drank a cream soda and was given a leaflet by a Buddhist proselytiser. As for photos: nada, zilch.
The second day was a bit more memorable. I went up into the hills and got spooked by the prospect of stepping on a mamushi (a Japanese viper). When I got back, I sunk into and emerged velvet-skinned from a long soak in an onsen. I visited a very bad art installation. And I ate an unforgivably awful meal at a non-Japanese restaurant, this being my own stupid fault. While there was nothing unusual about any of these activities — mamushis are endemic in Japan, Yamaguchi has nice hot-springs, and disappointment can be found everywhere — I at least experienced a few things that were not on a particular American newspaper's list of recommendations.
On the third day, I found what I was looking for.
originally I thought this cuckoo wasp to be Omalus (now: Pseudomalus) aeneus but then the punctation on mesoscutum did not fit but pointed to P. puncticollis. Now I went back to the original series of photos to see if I could get a glimpse of the 3rd metasomal tergum (the last visible one). This and the previous shot are not chosen for general quality but because they seem to show a semitranslucent margin (appearing brownish in the photos) and a tooth-like projection. ID confirmed by Alexander Berg. Thanks!
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Found at Mayville Ledge Beech-Maple Woods SNA in east-central Wisconsin. Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA.
Found in mixed hardwood forest. Found on the trunk of a dead fallen debarked hardwood tree. I was checking some Stemonitis clusters growing on the tree for slime mold beetles, when this beauty ambled up and started chomping on the blackened tips of this clump. While looking through the viewfinder and taking shots I could actually see, through its semitranslucent head, chunks of spores going down it's 'throat'.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-26EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie and plastic cup diffuser.
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This is highly included (cloudy) aquamarine. It is perfect for a cabochon as it really has that ocean-ish, Pisces-ish quality. This material wouldn't look good faceted, like the highly clean, transparent gem we usually see.
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Fidelia 'Freesia White' in Handmade Mohair tiny wig & Flower Faerie Dress by Marie's WeeDollyWears (Etsy)
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At high latitudes every winter carbon dioxide condenses from Mars' atmosphere onto the surface forming a seasonal polar cap. In the spring, the Sun shines through this semitranslucent layer of dry ice and heats the ground below.
The ice sublimates (goes directly from ice to gas) on the underside of the seasonal ice layer and the gas is trapped. When the pressure is high enough the ice cracks and ruptures allowing the gas to escape. When the conditions are optimal this gas may condense locally near the source, forming a bright fan.
The dark fans are fine bits of surface material that get carried along by the escaping gas up to above the surface ice. Fine particles are also carried downwind and deposited in dark fans on top of the ice, where they may slowly sink into the ice. The rows of dark fans outline the original crack in the ice that allowed the gas to escape.
Strobist: AB800 In Gridded Octabox 45 Deg Above Front, And AB400 W/Semitranslucent Umbrella Camera Left At Level
Un niño precioso, que me hipnotizo con esos hermosos ojos azules.
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Strobist: AB800 In Gridded Octabox 45 Deg Above Front, And AB400 W/Semitranslucent Umbrella Camera Left At Level
Story: Michael is a young boy with autism who I was asked to shoot for the cover of a book called The Gifts of Autism. I delivered a few different final images but I really felt like this one worked the best conceptually. Who knows what will be chosen but that's my opinion. The author and I went to Michaels house on a Sunday afternoon and I shot the whole thing pretty quickly. The whole shoot went very well and was a lot of fun. I chose red just because I thought it worked well with a title containing "colors" and because I thought it would look great on a book cover. You know, pop off the shelf kind of thing. Turned out it was his favorite color too so that was a nice bonus.
Lighting: This is a simple light setup I learned from www.fstopinertia.com then slightly adapted. She uses a bare head, I use a head in a medium softbox. All it is 1 dynalite 4040 head in a medium softbox about 3ft behind a large piece of semitranslucent white nylon. The nylon is strung between two lightstands and placed parrallel to the background and about 5 feet back. It takes a lot of power with all the diffusion so I have a 1000watt pack on full power and it's triggered with pocketwizards.
Strobist: AB800 In Gridded Octabox 45 Deg Above Front, And AB400 W/Semitranslucent Umbrella Camera Left At Level
a simple, DIY diffuser for a built-in flash - a single hole and two old
filter holders (here 58mm in diameter) was everything needed to have it,
and a lid of a polyprophylene luncheon box (semi translucent, and
soft, which means it would not break easily as will be the case with
polycarbonate plastic) - all in all about 15 mins. of trouble
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luckily she matches my walls and pillows fabulously!! (yea, I have a pillow with a rhinestone crown detail.. LOL... I'm like 16 years old xD!!)
The colorful, large grain sand of Rodeo Beach (Marin Headlands) is mostly rounded red and green chert with some mafic volcanic rock fragments, mostly with 1 to 4 mm grain size. Rodeo Breach also contains carnelians, semitranslucent orange chalcedony, that formed in the vesicles of the nearby pillow basalts. (from William P. Elder, 2001, NAGT Field Trip Guidebook. NPS, GGNRA).
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Seaweed on large grain sand of Rodeo Beach, Marin Headlands. This colorful sand is mostly rounded red and green chert with some mafic volcanic rock fragments, mostly with 1 to 4 mm grain size. Rodeo Breach also contains carnelians, semitranslucent orange chalcedony, that formed in the vesicles of the nearby pillow basalts. (from William P. Elder, 2001, NAGT Field Trip Guidebook. NPS, GGNRA)
Wedgwood's swan vases were the most imposing products that the factory made in the last century.
The models in the Museum, made eight years apart, present a rather more unified and harmonious ensemble: in each instance an egg-shaped vase, rising from a clump of reeds and seemingly supported by three swans, is closed by a mound supporting a swan preening an outstretched wing.
Semitranslucent turquoise blue and yellow "majolica" glazes are used on the bases, handles, and covers. The Wedgwood archives do not record the designer, but the French sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse( 1824-1887) has been suggested.
originally I thought this cuckoo wasp to be Omalus (now: Pseudomalus) aeneus but then the punctation on mesoscutum did not fit but pointed to P. puncticollis. Now I went back to the original series of photos to see if I could get a glimpse of the 3rd metasomal tergum (the last visible one). This and the previous shot are not chosen for general quality but because they seem to show a semitranslucent margin (appearing brownish in the photos) and a tooth-like projection. To me this looks like Philoctetes? ID confirmed by Alexander Berg. Thanks!
foto de teja acrílica semitranslúcida (techo)/picture of acrylic semitranslucent tile (roof)
2007
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For me it´s one of the best ways for finnishing weekend... dinner pizza.
Strobist delicious info:
Yng460 speed light on camera left for both trough a semitranslucent umbrella, 1/2 power .
set up: 1/80 - f/8 - iso 125.
Sinónimo: Hydrangea aspera D. Don ssp. sargentiana (Rehder) E. M. McClintock.
Arbustos de 2-3 m de alto. Ramillas, peciolos y pedúnculos con pelos densos, purpúreos, semitranslúcidos, largos, apicalmente bifurcados y agudos. Ramillas gruesas. Peciolo grueso, de 3-9 cm; lámina de la hoja verde grisácea a ligeramente púrpura cuando fresca en el envés, haz verde oscuro, elíptica, oblongo-ovada o anchamente ovada, de 9-30 x 6-16 cm, de submembranosa a ligeramente papirácea, envés densamente cubierto de pelos ligeramente curvados, haz densamente estrigoso-translúcido, 8-11 pares de nervios secundarios, prominentes en el envés, base de redondeada a ligeramente cordada, margen irregularmente triengular-dentado a denticulado, ápice acuminado. Inflorescencias en cimas corimbosas, de 10-16 cm de ancho, ápice arcuado; numerosas ramificaciones apiñadas juntas en el ápice del pedúnculo. Fores estériles con 4 sépalos blancos, de obovado-orbiculares a anchamente orbiculares, de 0,9-1,4 x 0,8-1,7 cm en fruto, margen entero. Flores fértiles con cáliz de tubo acampanado, de ca. de 1 mm; dientes triangulares, ca. 0,5 mm. Pétalos púrpura-azulados, ovados, de unos 2 mm. Estambres desiguales, algunos de los más cortos iguales a los pétalos, los más largos de unos 4 mm. Ovario ínfero. Estilos 2, de ca. de 1,5 mm en fruto; estigmas capitados, pequeños. Cápsula hemisférica de 3-4 mm de diámetro, ápice truncado. Semillas marrones, elipsoideas, ligeramente comprimidas, aladas en ambos extremos. Bosques densos en velles o laderas de montañas; 700-1800 m. China: Oeste de Hubei. En Iturraran se ecncuentra en la zona 3.
Synonym: Hydrangea aspera D. Don ssp. sargentiana (Rehder) E. M. McClintock.
Shrubs 2-3 m tall. Branchlets, petioles, and peduncles with dense, purple, semitranslucent, long, apically forked and acute hairs. Branchlets thick. Petiole thick, 3-9 cm; leaf blade abaxially gray-green to slightly purple when fresh, adaxially dark green, elliptic, oblong-ovate, or broadly ovate, 9-30 × 6-16 cm, submembranous to thinly papery, abaxially densely slightly curved villous, adaxially densely translucent strigose, secondary veins 8-11 on both sides of midvein, abaxially prominent, base rounded to shallowly cordate, margin irregularly triangular dentate to denticulate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences corymbose cymes, 10-16 cm wide, apex arcuate; branches numerous, crowded together at apex of peduncle. Sterile flowers with sepals 4, white, obovate-orbicular to broadly orbicular, 0.9-1.4 × 0.8-1.7 cm in fruit, margin entire. Fertile flowers with calyx tube campanulate, ca. 1 mm; teeth triangular, ca. 0.5 mm. Petals purplish blue, ovate, ca. 2 mm. Stamens unequal, some of shorter ones equaling petals, longer ones ca. 4 mm. Ovary inferior. Styles 2, ca. 1.5 mm in fruit; stigmas capitate, small. Capsule hemispheric, 3-4 mm in diam., apex truncate. Seeds brown, ellipsoid, slightly compressed, winged at both ends. Dense forests in valleys or on mountain slopes; 700-1800 m. China: W Hubei. In iturraran is found in zone 3.