Firewood stacked at the Governor Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village at Waco, Texas’ Mayborn Museum.

Piedras en equilibrio.

Balance Stones

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A sea stack off the coast of Heimaey, the largest of the Westman Islands, Iceland. Heimaey and another sea stack are visible in the background.

A variety of seabirds nest on cliffs and rocky ledges in the Westman Islands. Guano from nesting birds is visible as white patches on the rock. Puffins dig burrows in the grassy areas.

Stacked colored pencils, approx. 4 cm high, negative space 6 cm.

Railcars laden with containers slowly rumble along West Dallas train tracks.

The sun setting over the decaying timber stacks of the old jetty at Mearsehead on the Solway Coast, South West Scotland

A stack of old and battered plastic folders for Macro Mondays.

Photo taken for the Macro Mondays theme “Stack”.

..With Meallan Liath Coire Mhic Dhughaill distant, North West Sutherland, Scottish Highlands.

#macromondays

#Stack

Isn't it an obvious choice to combine random objects for a theme like "Stack"? Please say "Yes, it is!" :) When I was looking for objects I could stack for the new MM theme, I noticed two smaller chestnuts on my desk which I'd collected in autumn right in front of my house (It's kind of a ritual for me to collect a few of the first fallen chestnuts in front of my house). In Berlin, many streets are lined with trees of only one kind. My house is a corner house, and the entrance is on "chestnut street", while most of our windows look out to "lime tree street", just in case you were interested ;)

So there I had these two chestnuts, two fairly round objects (asteroid-"round", or Mars-moon-"round", one could say), and I wondered whether they are stackable. Stackable without little helpers such as modeling clay, because I wasn't sure if we were allowed to use such "hidden tools" for the theme. To my surprise, they were stackable, "gluelessly" :) But I still needed a third or maybe a fourth object. This was the point where "glueless" turned into clueless, and I picked random objects that would both keep my stack within the 3-inch frame and which also would be glueslessly stackable on top of the two chestnuts. At first, I thought of using the small golden crown which you've seen before as an MM prop, but it kept coming off. So in the end the "winners" were the fairy light "cuff" that I've already used for the "Star" theme from August 2022, and two small carnation blossoms, because... why not?

My image is a single shot taken in shadow priority mode. Light sources were one LED light equipped with the semi-transparent yellow bottle cap for some warm light from the left, and another LED light directed against the gold-coloured cardboard which I've used as a backdrop. That cardboard was part of food packaging, and it has an uneven, slightly reflective surface which created some nice bokeh. Processed in DXO PL6, Lightroom (where I did some masking on the chestnut stack to bring out more details), and in Analog Efex, where I used one of the "Subtle" film types (Fundy 2) and a slight vignette to add a vintage, matte touch to the image. Again, this is on the bigger side, the height of the stack is slightly more than 6 cm / 2,36 inches, and I've cropped the image so that the width of the frame meets the three inches rule as well.

HMM, Everyone!

I thought these were amazing, until I found out that people were using glue. It turns out, the glue kills the fish.

I got a lot done today, getting ready for my trip to the coast on the 6th. Picked up some filters for my lenses, changed the oily in the car and washed my clothes..:) Had to get ready for work tomorrow.

Sunset on the shore at El Matador State Park.

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Backlit view of South Stack Lighthouse, Anglesey, North Wales.

A focus stack of 20 images

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A mixed selection from the lower drawer in the workshop ..just for MacroMondays ! Natural lighting from the side. "WE COME IN PEACE" thanks to Dave Anderson in comments.

"Macro Mondays" `` "Balance"

Two brown pelicans almost flying on top of each other...

On the Engstligen Alp, Bernese alp cheese is produced in the traditional way. This means that the milk is heated over a wood fire, which gives the cheese part of its distinctive taste.

Sony ILCE-6000

Samyang 12 mm

Waited all summer for this I have!!

I've wanted to visit here since I first clapped eyes on the location a good few months ago now......but it's been just this mountain first or that mountain while the weathers' good, which to be fair I have appreciated and enjoyed even if the legs haven't.....

ironically had to ascend upwards a little to get here too - keeps me fit I suppose!

Rolex Building Dallas Texas

in de serie "te gek bestek"

... a special b&w request for Henny …

LIMG_2704_lr

South Stack is an island known as a sea stack. It was formed by the wave erosion of sedimentary rocks that once connected the island to the mainland.

South Stack Lighthouse, which was completed in 1809, is sited 41 m (135 ft) above the sea on South Stack. Its lamp tower is 28 m (92 ft)-tall and the lighthouse complex covers seven acres (2.8 ha). There are over 390 stone steps and 10 metal steps down to the footbridge.

Powered by a pair of Heritage I SD40-2s is the westbound BNSF QDENTAC (Denver to Tacoma stack train) approaching Woodlin, Montana, on September 23, 2006. Woodlin is just east of Thompson Falls on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

An attempt to use 7 images to create a stacked photo.

The "nut" man :-P

Stack size height: 4.5 cm

Macro Mondays,

Stack,

Wine Corks,

Six (6),

Stack 4 shots,

Macro,

United States,

Pennsylvania,

Winter.

Taken for Macro Monday - Topic - Stack

white paper... actually a book of crossword puzzles!!

File DSCF5108

A weather system passes over the Elegug Stacks at dusk. The wind was blowing straight over my head towards the stacks as I took this shot. The sun was very intense here too and illuminating the cliff tops, but not the stacks below.

This is a remarkable headland in Pembrokeshire and there are so many photogenic features, Sadly with their positioning they do not make easy subjects at sunrise or sunset, but with weather conditions like this they still provide great subjects.

A Beach pastime that has swept Europe.

#LookingCloseOnFriday! #HeapOrStack

Challenge sur Flickr : °°° ; Color explosion

Stack of pebbles + extrusion effect

Bee. Photographed in Maryland.

A focus stack of 3 images, shot with the camera hand held. Canon 80D, Canon MPE macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400, flash set to 1/16th power.

Taken with Macro Tubes and cropped to fit within 3"

Macro Mondays

Focus stack

Canon R, CMH-200,Mitutoyo x5.

1/160sec,iso 100.

Helicon, P.S.

Ogglab lighting tunnel.

Mjkzz Ultra rail.

149 shots,@ 20um.

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Smile on Saturday : Stacked

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”

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A few measuring spoons stacked HMM folks

Let's hope the Dice aren't stacked against you today!