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Pose by West End
Taken @ Cherishville
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West End Mainstore
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West End Marketplace
Lisbon, Santa Apolónia train station
"Why do we pity people who cannot travel? Because by not being able to expand outwardly, they are also unable to expand inwardly, they cannot multiply, and so they are deprived of the possibility of making far-reaching excursions into themselves and discovering who and what else they could also have become." Pascal Mercer, Night Train to Lisbon
"Warum bedauern wir Leute, die nicht reisen können? Weil sie sich, indem sie sich äußerlich nicht ausbreiten können, auch innerlich nicht auszudehnen vermögen, sie können sich nicht vervielfältigen, und so ist ihnen die Möglichkeit genommen, weitläufige Ausflüge in sich selbst zu unternehmen und zu entdecken, wer und was anderes sie auch hätten werden können." Pascal Mercier, Nachtzug nach Lissabon
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Took this shot on the town moor in June of 2019 but really this shot could have been taken at any time in the last 100 years. If you ever visit Newcastle in June see if the hoppings, as we call the fair, are on. It's one of the best travelling fairs you will ever see and one of the biggest.
#SlidersSunday
#MacroMondays
#Travel
Please zoom in.
The new Macro Monday theme is "Travel". I was prepared to skip, because I'm not much of a traveller. Of course I'm interested in world cultures and different places, especially in being there and going exploring, getting to know everything. But getting there... Packing luggage, getting on the train (and, forbid, the aeroplane), hoping to catch my connection... and then, on repeat once it's finally going home again: horror.
But then, this Thursday, the motif literally came to me. At a favourite park, this little green guy, a buffalo treehopper, had decided to travel on my 9mm wide-angle lens for a while. The treehopper walked around along the lens hood, stopped for a few seconds, walked on, rested, and so on, flexing its tiny wings in between. It stayed on my lens for several minutes, even as I moved the camera around, and only flew away when we walked too far away from its home tree.
Since this cute little critter was a first, I had to take a few photos. The "problem": The lens with the excellent close-up abilities – my 9 mm PanaLeica ultra-wide-angle lens (small, super-light, plastic, but truly fantastic) – was mounted on my OM-3: as the treehopper's travel vehicle ;) So my tiny Sony came to the rescue. It doesn't, per se, do close-ups; at least you can't get truly close to a subject with it, certainly not anything as small as this guy. But the zoom range makes up for that. Here, I probably wasn't even far enough away. I checked the info, and according to that, I took this photo at 32,7mm (= 91,5 mm in full-frame terms). Maybe I could have achieved better "critter magnification" at the full 200 mms, but at that moment, it didn't even occur to me to get farther away from the tiny green fellow.
Since this isn't a true macro in the sense of a 1:1 magnification, I cropped in to meet our MM size requirements. Pixel-wise, this left me with quite a small crop (about 2100x2100 pixels); so I doubled the pixels in Gigapixel for better "viewability". If this should be against our MM rules, I'll accept it if the photo is excluded from the pool; likewise, if the image doesn't fully meet the theme requirements (evoking a feel of travel).
Size info: The treehopper was about the size of my pinky's fingernail, so just about the size of a grown specimen: 9 mm/0,35 inches. The lens's diameter (barrel included), as you can also see in the photo, is 5,5 cm. Since not all of the lens is fully visible in the frame, I'd say that, background included, we are at about 6 x 6 cm/2.3 x 2.3 inches total.
Happy Sliders Sunday, and Happy Macro Monday, too :)
Whilst walking the GR 5 between Spa and Stavelot I was unexpectedly greeted by two really friendly and incredibly beautiful dogs in a meadow!
This guy I met on the street here in Düsseldorf…it’s strange how sometimes there’s an immediate bond… and then each goes hs own way…
At We’re Here! our theme today is Vintage Luggage. I have no such thing readily available, so I created a collage this morning, combining my photographs from several museums.
Multiple exposure of workers and clocks arriving and leaving One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, UK
An ancient waymarker from the days when crossing the North Yorkshire Moors was a hazardous undertaking .
( Wheeldale Moor in autumn)
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Antelope Slot Canyon in the Navajo National Park in Arizona.
Very unique and pretty, however photographing in the dim light conditions was quite difficult and tricky.
Our tour group appeared rushed & opportunistic photography was difficult with the constant movement of people.
My photograph was taken in the lower canyon.
This is pretty much the best I could do.
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