Magnolias - 2 stops over exposed to produce a translucent effect.

When I was a child, I was told by my beloved grandparents that the winged seed pods of English maple trees were translucent faerie wings waiting to be collected by their new owners.

Autumn is now well and truly with us here in Melbourne, and the cooler winds of seasonal change are blowing away the remnants of summer, like it tosses the red, gold and orange leaves that carpet the ground.

Today was a perfect autumnal day in Melbourne: sunny, but not too bright, warm, but not hot, and perfectly still. Therefore I thought I'd go for a walk and take advantage of the sunny conditions and take some photographs.

I have taken several hundred, some of which I will upload over the coming months. However this one of the winged maple seeds which reminded me of by childhood in England particularly resonated with me, so I thought I would upload it without delay.

The height of this dolphin was 1 inch.

This flower appears to hang upside-down but that is its natural position. Backlight from the sun makes it translucent.

ODC: Translucent

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Small jar with nail-art decorations (HMM)

Looking through the translucent paper thin petals of the poppy.

Haunting translucent ghost jellyfish float through the depths of this aquarium in blissful peace.

MacroMondays#Translucent

HMM!

cabbage white butterfly on Verbena in front of a very colourful bokeh of summer flowers ☀️

Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Helios 44-2 58mm F2

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A Mule Deer with almost translucent ears

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Crataegus berries in an ice cube.

About 5,5 cm wide.

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detail of a painted glass small tea light holder. when you light the tea light candle you see all the pretty patterns and colours. For Macro Mondays. This week's theme: translucent. Happy Macro Monday/ HMM

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#Pins

I knew early on what would be my subject for the "Pins" theme: pins on an old motherboard. For my "Modern Times" style image for the MM theme "cogwheel" back in 2018 (please see the second comment) I'd wanted a circuit board as background, but didn't have one at hand. So I went to a very small computer shop around the corner and asked if they had an old, useless circuit board lying around – they had, and I got it for free. To carry it home, however, was a spiky affair. I'd thought that I'd simply put the mainboard under my arm, but I hadn't been aware that there are so many tiny, super spiky-prickly-sharp pins on a mainboard ;) So in the end I held it – in turns – at the sides (gingerly) or at the ports that would have been at the back of the computer chassis. A lasting memory, as it seems ;)

I've photographed the undersides of a row of connector pins that are plugged onto the edge of the mainboard. Each of them is 1 mm / 0,03 inches long. I've used both extension tubes (10mm/16mm) and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens to get as close to the pins as possible. For the yellow/golden light I've used a yellow, semi-translucent cap of a soap bottle that fits so nicely onto the LED lamp's head. I was surprised that the pins looked so soft(-ish), and with the smooth, minimalist bokeh and the background colour (apparently the living room wall, because I hadn't put anything behind the mainboard) the final result reminded me of a corps de ballet or a chorus line. Or of chess pawns, but I prefer the aforementioned idea that these are dancers on an opera stage.

HMM, Everyone! Stay safe and healthy, and have a pleasant week ahead :)

Ich wusste schon frühzeitig (was nicht allzu oft vorkommt), was ich für das aktuelle MM-Thema machen wollte: "Pins" / Steckstifte auf einer alten Hauptplatine. Diese Platine hatte ich mir mal als Hintergrund für mein an "Modern Times" angelehntes Foto für das "Cogwheel"-Thema (September 2018, Ihr findet das Foto im 2. Kommentar) bei einer kleinen Computer-Bude bei mir um die Ecke besorgt. Das Nachhausetragen war dann eine stachelige Angelegenheit, denn ich hatte nicht an die doch sehr vielen, so kleinen wie nadelspitzen Steckstifte / Lötstifte / Verbindungsstifte und das andere spitze Zeugs, mit dem so eine Platine bestückt ist, gedacht. Unter den Arm klemmen war also nicht – und diese "Fasse-die-Platine-dort-an-wo-es-mal-nicht-pikt"-Erfahrung war dann offenbar doch so nachhaltig, dass ich mich gleich daran erinnert habe, als ich las, was das heutige Thema sein würde ;)

Ich habe hier beide Zwischenringe (10mm/16mm) und die Raynox-DCR-250-Makrolinse verwendet, um so nah wie möglich an die Reihe von Verbindungsstiften heranzukommen. Fotografiert habe ich deren Unterseite, mit gelb-goldenem Licht von der Seite, für das ich den halbtransparenten, gelben Schraubverschluss einer Spüliflasche auf den Kopf der LED-Lampe gesteckt habe (er passt wie dafür gemacht). Die Hintergrundfarbe kommt offenbar von der Wohnzimmerwand, da ich nichts hinter die Platine gestellt hatte. Das Resultat sieht überraschend luftig-leicht (für Technik) aus, finde ich. Die "Hütchen" erinnern mich durchaus ein wenig an Bauern auf einem Schachbrett, noch viel mehr erinnern sie mich aber an ein Corps de Ballet.

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Theme - Translucent

Sunlight through a sunflower petal.

Briefbeschwerer aus Glas.

Translucent

This is Grape, a 9 months old male red squirrel, posing in the sun. I like how the sun shines through the ear and how it makes his whiskers glow (Squirrels-2019-5841.jpg)

Onion slice

This is a translucent blue pebble (like in this image) placed on a mirror.

The used magnification is 0.75X

Have a nice MM, dear friends! ;-)

macro mondays/Translucent

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Macro Mondays, theme: Translucent

A translucent glass plate was smeared with a little vaseline and placed in front of a gold watch.

Hasselblad/Zeiss Makro-Planar 135mm-f/5.6 manual lens, set to f/5.6.

7 image focus stack using Helicon Focus.

For an image with scale, see here:

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Prodibi: kuriyan.prodibi.com/a/vgxvyogv7rj8qj5/i/x6omql02x42755w

Translucent glass, sea colors.

Purple Anemone Plate is a macro photograph of a purple Anemone on a light box.

Crab-apples

... macro mondays ... translucent ...

hmm !

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TRANSLUCENT is the Topic for Saturday December 17th, Group Our Daily Challenge

After watching a Nature show featuring the beautiful hummingbirds of the world I decided to pay tribute to one on the many amazing hummers that I saw in Costa Rica this past April.

While feeding on a passion flower this Green-crowned Brilliant is showing off it's beautiful 'translucent wings'.

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Third choice MM

The new springtail season has started. Dicyrtoma fusca can be found in the garden again. A worm also appears left down.

Translucent

Snow coming to the Chilterns? A light, wet sprinkling of it this morning.

Isn't that a lovely word -- Translucent.. I use it whenever I can. And doesn't it add a dimension to pictures like this? (But maybe only On Black.)

Please don't miss it Viewed Larger On Black and Full Screen (F11)

Dedicated to Rajue, a really great and very creative photographer.

I found this little flower growing in some grass in one of my neighborhood parkways. The raindrops seemed to glisten, and the petals are translucent.