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April starting making some spoon jewelry for herself. A friend at work saw it, loved it and ordered a few. The next day i posted this photo on facebook and she received 7 more orders for one like this. So I have been busy some product photography and getting her facebook page up and running.
I have several trips planned to do some wildlife photography and I hope to show off some really amazing work if everything works out.
This rather fuzzy shot was taken as we were pulling up to the pad in Spooner. The old CNW hi-rail truck at right add a nice touch. Ahead is a former LS&I caboose (probably acquired from the Wisconsin and Michigan RR)
Pak Thale. It is critically endangered, with fewer than 1,000 left. There were at least three individuals there feeding in the salt pans where salt water had been gathered from the sea and left to dry for salt, leaving the tiny sea creatures as open game for visiting waders. The spoon-billed sandpiper which are threatened by habitat loss on its breeding grounds and loss of tidal flats through its migratory and wintering range. You can find a video of the extraordinary efforts taken to try and save this critically endangered species here: www.wwt.org.uk/what-we-do/saving-wildlife/science-and-act.... The video shows the same species in breeding plumage.
A fragment of a glass bottle, at Tilbury's Clinker Beach. An earlier frame is of a similar bottle, nearly intact, stood upright, with the words TABLE-SPOONS from top to bottom, with the level markings either side. I don't know what the bottle contained; possibly Cod Liver Oil for naughty children.
This, and other similar shots, was taken with a Raynox 'macro-lens' fitted to the lens allowing closer focusing than otherwise. Hand held. The highlights come from a concrete/aggregate wall (cement with pebbles !) used as a base.
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Strobist:
Lighting:
single sb-80dx through 43" westcott with flash custom mounted very low. Positioned behind spoons, shot downwards. Large white bounce cards positioned on either side. Shot through black flags in front of camera.
Camera:
135mm f/22 1/250 ISO 100
These are old spoons from my Great Uncle Clarence Coulson's house. I saved them from the rummage sale of his things after he passed away about 50 years ago. It's amazing that I still have these after all the times I have moved in the past 40 years. I still use them. The picture is my Great Uncle Clarence in the early 1900's. The spoon on the right was one with his name engraved on it. For some reason in my family it was tradition to give people a spoon with their name engraved on it for a graduation from high school. I found one in my mom's things with his brother Victor's name engraved on it.
Sunrise at Spoon Bay on the NSW Central Coast. Looking south towards Wamberal Beach and Lagoon and Terrigal