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While I was waiting on a hummingbird this guy was collecting water from a nearby puddle and I just happened to catch him in flight.
Just doing a little stitching ....only kidding as I wouldn't know where to start!!
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Nikon D750 / Nikkor 50/1.4
From Virginia, Rob brought back some antique furniture from his late grandmother's home. One of the pieces of furniture is a large chest of drawers. The drawers are still filled with all of her craft things -- bits of fabric, doll-making supplies, sewing sundries. A couple of the drawers are filled with spools of colorful thread, and those are just wonderful to look at.
Spools of thread, cards with trim or bias tape and bits of lace totally remind me of my childhood. My mother always sewed all my clothes and I didn't wear a 'store bought' dress until I was old enough to have a part-time job and buy my own.
Mum was an excellent seamstress and could make the most complicated patterns. When I was in high school and all the other girls were beginning to dress like hippies I was the one kitted out in tweed suits sewn from Vogue patterns that made me look like Angela Lansbury from Murder She Wrote. I even had jackets with bound buttonholes. I betcha there is hardly anyone reading this who is familiar with a bound buttonhole but take it from me it's very complicated sewing.
Do you think I was happy wearing these designer clothes? Not even a bit....it was horrifying...it was humiliating.....it was persecution. :-D I wanted to be like all the other girls and wear cheap stuff off the rack. This caused no end of consternation in our household resulting in tears, harsh words, foot stomping and pouting but I still had to wear those remarkably well made clothes.
One of my greatest liberating triumphs came when my mother made my coat for school. It was a dressy knee length coat with a lovely weave in powder blue. It was an old lady coat. There wasn't a day that went by that this ungrateful daughter didn't complain about her embarrassing coat so finally my mother said she would dye it navy blue if it would make me happier about it. It seemed a compromise I could live with.
So Mum set about dying the coat and when she was done it had shrunk to the size of something only a five year old could wear.
I was overjoyed.
She was dismayed.
It was vindication.
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"Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from destruction to safety."
— Bryant McGill
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This was taken in the flower garden at Pineland Farm in New Gloucester, Maine.
Thread-waisted wasp, (subfamily Sphecinae), any of a group of large, common, solitary (nonsocial) wasps in the family Sphecidae (order Hymenoptera) that are named for the stalklike anterior (front) end of the abdomen. Thread-waisted wasps are typically more than 2.5 cm (about 1 inch) long and are parasitic on insects and spiders. The host is often numbed by malaxation, a pinching or crushing of the neck by the wasp’s pincerlike jaws, and paralyzed by the wasp’s sting. The wasp places the host’s body in a mud cell and lays an egg on it. Upon hatching, the larva consumes the host.[Encyclopedia Britannica]
“There's a thread that binds all of us together, pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line”
~ Rosamund Marshall
Southbound CSX junker M543 is moving over Crooked Hill at a good clip behind ES44AH number 825 as it navigates one of the most interesting locations on the CC Sub, a remote spot known as Orlando. Here, an almost immediate succession of bridges and tunnels let the L&N's Cincinnati to Atlanta mainline take the easy route through the Kentucky mountains. 825's nose is popping out of the 912-foot Tunnel 14, framed by the portal of Tunnel 15, a 105-foot "needle eye" passing through a narrow ridge. Between the two lies a 187-foot deck girder bridge over Roundstone Creek, and behind the camera is a 202-foot curved span over another branch of the same stream. Certainly one of the coolest places to watch trains I've ever been!
This image was created as a “hero” image for a section of my upcoming book, Macro Photography: The Universe at Our Feet - skycrystals.ca/product/pre-order-macro-photography-the-un... . A colourful portion of the wing of a Madagascan Sunset butterfly (Chrysiridia rhipheus), shot with a 20x microscope objective.
These kinds of images are difficult to accomplish simply because the subject is so small and it was intentionally photographed on an angle. The butterfly wing was not parallel to the focal plane of the camera, which would have made this slightly easier to shoot but would also lack depth. How much is actually in focus in a single image? Well, take a look at one of the frames that went into making this: donkom.ca/bts/PDKP5901.jpg
Photographed with a Mitutoyo Plan APO 20x microscope objective mounted on an old Canon FD 200mm F/4 telephoto lens to function as a “tube lens” for the infinity-corrected objective, the only think needed to make this work is to use a 52mm – M26 step-down filter thread and to set the tube lens focus to infinity. Here’s a shot of the behind-the-scenes setup which shows you all of the ingredients: donkom.ca/bts/_1090434.jpg
Those ingredients are:
Bulb blower to clean dust off the specimen!
Automated focusing rail. In this case I’m using the StackShot from Cognisys but I also have a Novoflex Castel Micro on the way to compare. Automation is extremely helpful when shooting at magnifications such as this.
Lumix S1R. I was pleasantly surprised at the resolving power of this microscope objective, showing incredible detail on this 47MP camera body!
Canon FD 200mm F/4 + 20x objective, as discussed above.
Yongnuo YN-14EX II ring flash – my new favourite ring flash!
Platypod Max + Gooseneck arms and crab clamps to hold the ring flash. The angle of shooting required that the ring be positioned off camera, and with this setup I could easily manipulate the position with slight adjustments and get it very close to the subject. I believe they still have a bundle on sale: platypod.com/tripods/max-macro-bundle
Bolt P12 battery pack, allowing the flash to fire with an additional 12 AA batteries… helpful when you know a lot of images are going to be shot!
How many images for this sequence? It’s my biggest stack ever at 991 frames. I could have probably gotten away with around 700 images or so, but a greater degree of overlap was helpful to remove some flare effects off of the wing by certain stacking algorithms. Zerene Stacker and two of the Helicon Focus modes failed, one of them worked (Mode B) to create decent results with just some clean-up work in Photoshop.
My box of thread for a project I just finished. I always wait until the piece comes back from the dry cleaners before I put the thread away. You never know if you'll have to restitch something after it's been cleaned and pressed so I leave the thread in my little project box. Once I've inspected the piece, I put the bobbins back and start hunting for a new project to occupy my time.
Silk threads on Autumn Hydrangea blossoms.
Captured in bright morning sun on campus with the usual iPhone and Olloclip Macro Lens.
Edited on the iPad first in Snapseed then in Fotograf for black and white conversion.
This finch had some very fine, almost hairlike feathers that promptly showed up. Such a beautiful little bird.
A friend came over to learn a little about macro photography and this is the result. Shot with a legacy Zuiko 50mm f/3.5 macro lens with an adapter on an OM- D EM1 Mk ll. Stacked with Photoshop.
Took a little walk in the James River yesterday. I took this while standing in a little sandbar that appeared only in the last year or so. The secret (What is it about me and secrets the past couple of pictures?) is that you have to stay really close to the bank. Otherwise it's like quicksand. As one foot sank in quickly, I scrambled closer to the bank, laughing at myself.
First time to see these in our lantana. Tried to grab a couple of photos, not quite in sharp focus but wanted to record its presence. May get better ones later. They nest in the ground.
This is "Kaga Temari". Japanese traditional handcraft.
Winding the chunk of cotton by a color thread until it forms a precise sphere.
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This is my picture No. 65 for the 100 x project with my theme "Silhouette".
Captured with my Nikon Df and a manual Nikkor Ai 50mm ƒ1:1.2 with a 3 x ND Filter, post processed with the new VSCO Film Pack 06.
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