Sharpener tv and telephone, made in Mexico, furniture from Ikea. Retro chair made by an artisan, replica of the Petit Princess Furniture, scale 1:16.

Miniatures from Rement.

for Macro Mondays theme 18/9/17-Evolution.

Pencil sharpener & knife.

Pencils, sharpener and eraser in the digital era is really nostalgic!

Image is my own, textures, brushes from PA and AWAKE.

Be careful, it's sharp...

This is a whell of a very small model of a cannon as a pencil sharpener.

The target for MM is the wheel...

Focus stack of 20 images. Shot with two off camera flashes (Leica SF 60/SF C1 trigger). Flash A to right of camera at 90 degrees, 30 degrees above subject, diffused with MagMod MagSPhere. Flash B at 270 degrees 60 degrees above subject, diffused with MagMod MagBounce.

So many friendly people in the narrow alleys of Kolkata. These guys sharpened knives and blades.

For: 7 Days of Shooting. Week #1. Messy Moments - Focus Friday.

Thank you to everyone who takes the time to view my photos and comments or Faves.

Fine point.

This is a retake of my first ever macro shot, embedded in the comments below.

As creatives, its important to look back on where you started and acknowledge your improvements and consider the road ahead and the direction you want to take.

Newest release from 2016 is red sharpener on the left from School Goods series. The pink one, centre, is an early Re-ment Elementary School series and the multi-colour one is 2006 Stationery set.

#AbFav_Plastic_💳

#AbFav_PHOTOSTORY

Give me a box of coloured pencils, and for a whole afternoon you won't hear or see me.

Always been like that, lol, oh that and a book.

Here I had a lot of fun.

Hope you do too.

With love to you and thank you for ALL your faves and comments! M, (* _ *)

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synthetic, plastic, pencils, felt pen, red, sharpener, fun, Nikon D7000, studio, colour, square, black-background, "Magda indigo"

Embossed letters on my (very old) manual pencil sharpener.

Bethesda, Maryland

Day 60 of my 366 Project

The vintage items you see here aren't part of a deliberate theme on my part. Everything simply came together over time.

1. 20-inch Dell 2009w LCD monitor. I bought this in 2008. It's great for text, but the color isn't up to snuff for production work. (Oh, and hiding behind that lovely illustration by Carolyn Arcabascio, is the working draft of The Murk, which I am currently editing.)

2. Western Electric model 500 telephone (sold from 1950 to 1984). This is my high-tech communications system. I picked it up at a yard sale ($5) several years ago because I was getting tired of buying new batteries for my cordless phone. It still dials out, but when confronted with an automated message system and asked to press "4" or whatever, I just have to hang up.

3. Panasonic Electric Pencil Sharpener, model KP-77 S (probably early 70s, with Auto-Stop!). My trusty friend, bought by my wife for $3 at a church bazaar. Amazingly, you can still buy replacement parts for this model.

4. Sony MDR-V700DJ headphones. My portable orchestra. I bought these in 2001, shortly after purchasing an iPod, because said iPod couldn't pump out enough juice to drive my old AKG 260s.

5. 15-inch Apple Macbook Pro (Winter 2006). Tucked behind the monitor, Graphic Mayhem rests in a little wooden bracket and runs in closed-lid mode when it's not doing color work.

6. Apple Pro Keyboard (2000). The computer this came with is gone now, but I kept the keyboard because Apple built it to outlast the sun.

7. Apple Mighty Mouse (2005). I have no clear memory of how I acquired this mouse, but it's still on the job.

8. Picture of an Egyptian chariot (gift from a friend), because chariots are cool.

9. Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition (1938). Yes, it's old, but it still beats the hell out of any other dictionary I've ever used.

10. Two Rinn. These were a Christmas gift, hand-made by my wife and children. They are more precious to me than my weight in 1st edition hardbacks of The Princess Bride, by William Goldman (Fine in Fine dust jackets). And THAT, my friends, is saying something.

11. Placebo coffee (or sometimes placebo tea). It's hard to see in this photo, but it's right here on the corner of this middle shelf.

Plastic pencil sharpener made in Germany. There is a circular mark with the word 'Germany' on the roof. Length approx. 58mm.

One down-side to owning a lab is the dog drool. Luke kindly uses his leg instead of the arm of the chair this time.

Post processed with Nik Software's Color Efex Pro, Define, and Sharpener Pro.

pencil sharpener = 40min

hat = 9min

I'm quite happy with how they turned out :) I was struggling with the sharpener

Ebenezer Point

Jordan Lake, North Carolina, USA

...due vecchi arrotini...

Green comes out red :-)

1. Photomatix generating HDR file

2. Colour Efex adding effect

3. Sharpener Pro adjusting sharpness

4. Dfine Pro reducing noise

The second in the story line of coloring pencils.

The Flickr Lounge-Old Stuff

When I do my colouring I use a small hand held sharpener. These big ones sharpen well but eat your pencils.

A mechanical walking stegosaurus that is also a pencil sharpener, traipses through our indoor garden, leaving tiny dinosaur footprints in the soil.

Pencil sharpener.

Neglected pencil sharpener.

a pencil sharpener, useful for making your lunch.....HMM to all !

AWWWWW YEEEEAAAH

Ever walk into class with your M4 and a dull pencil? Was the pencil sharpener in the classroom ever broken? Did you say "Gee if I could just carry a pencil sharpener on my M4 it would be so convenient?" Well now guess what? YOU FUCKING CAN with this new OfficeJacks Pencil sharpener with rail attachment... FUCK YEAH

MacroMondays theme - Yellow

© 2013 Nicola Riley

Old hobo trick to sharpen your knife!

My first EXPLORE! #67 for Dec 7th, 2011!

Thanks for telling me Endless Love Photography. If you didn't mention it I wouldn't have known!

We had a really great snowfall just before Christmas last year. Frustrated Jr and I had a chance to take a break after shoveling the driveway. My idea of the break was to take pictures; his was to use me as a practice target for snowballs.

I think he won.

Grabbed this from the archives to play with photo treatments. Lots to learn in photo editing and having a ball with it!

I used Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro, and Sharpener on this photo in addition to cropping and the healing brush in Photoshop.

Llanercheron

This Lundby dolls house doll from the 70s shows some Fernseher = TV sets I use for my Lundby dolls houses, size 1:18. The most are original from Lundby and one is LISA. The green one was a pencil sharpener, but the size was perfect :) ! The red one is a so called "Gucki" - You can look through a little window on the back and see some nice pictures of the german "Black Forest".

This Koh-I-Noor Hardmuth 9095 TLR got me excited for a few seconds till I realized that it was not a vintage camera but a new pencil sharpener ;-)

Nicely done !

Ceský Krumlov (CZ), June 2023

Shop window of the KOH-I-NOOR HARDTMUTH Trade a.s.

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Shot with a Sony DSC-RX100M4

1/125s f/4.0 iso125 f=15.3mm

Downscaled to 2048 pixels width

I couldn't execute this how I wanted - I lack space, materials and light, as usual. I always make do and this is the best I can do today, I don't have a lot of time either!

I hope this photo makes sense. The pencil sharpener is in the background, a letter box one.

Compositionally Challenged: Depth of field.

52 in 2018: Broken

Macro Mondays [March 26: The Periodic Table]

Not related to music in this instance, but a double-hole prism-shaped pencil sharpener, made from the Earth Metal Magnesium [Mg].