Beatles - Places We Remember
View allAll Photos Tagged beatles
For this week’s Macro Mondays theme of ‘Beatles/Beetles’ I have chosen to depict the Beatles song Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown). The song was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and was first released on the album Rubber Soul in December 1965.
The ‘link’ in the image is the pinecone (from one of the pine family of trees - pine, spruce, fir, cedar etc), which is synonymous with Norway and the piece of bark which I picked up during a recent walk. The background is an artificial spruce Christmas tree. Needs must as they say!
For this shot, I have used 2 Bowens Gemini Esprit lights. The main light (camera left) is a GM250 fitted with a large softbox. The second is a GM125, which was placed above and to the rear of the subject. Another very simple lighting set-up!
This is a Cartodere bifasciata : size 2mm
I found the beetle between leaves on the ground when I was searching for springtails.
So I had my subject for MM
Macro Mondays "Beatles / Beetles Theme
Penny Lane was first in the UK Charts In February 1967.
It was in fact named after Penny Lane a street in John Lennon's home city of Liverpool
Best if viewed large. It's found at the base if Fern Falls, about 5 miles off the North Fork of the Coeur d' Alene River in Northern Idaho State.
Shoot Magazine with Nikon Commercial at the back. Made me think of this idea. (The Beatles Abbey Road)
There are about 500 species in Australia with about half of them yet undescribed.
I found these very hard to photograph because of their shiny shell, lots of reflections. In my Australian Woolly Bush!
Another shot in 2nd comment
Macro Mondays weekly theme--you can choose to photograph The Beatles or a beetle insect
In 1965 I was at primary school when the Beatles released the film Help! One of the songs in the film was Ticket to Ride, which is the subject of my theme for this week. Issued at one of the many heritage steam railways I visit and! Of course it is only as a “Day Tripper”. Happy Macro Mondays.
It had to be The Beatles for me for this week's Macro Monday theme. I am lucky enough to be Liverpool born and bred, and often walk past these gates and the tourists who flock to leave their mark, just as the Beatles left their mark on the music world. There is a photo of the gate-posts on my photo stream, any visitors to the city are very welcome to look around. There are some great taxi tours taking in lots of Beatles sights, and other song titles :-)
The Beatles and I get by with a little help from our friends. :-) Happy Wednesday. Window and otherwise as well..
Forty years tucked away, my wife's treasured LP collection finally emerged from storage, sparked by a new turntable gifted at Christmas. Among them, a cherished 1968 double album: The Beatles' "White Album," featuring the timeless "Blackbird." This iconic song, a personal favorite and a musical touchstone, has resonated across generations, inspiring covers from Judy Collins, Neil Diamond, and Billy Preston, to its appearance on "Glee." Most recently, Beyoncé's 2024 rendition on "Cowboy Carter" propelled "Blackbird" to its highest-ever position on the Billboard Hot 100.
_________________________
The Red-winged Blackbird:
A stocky, broad-shouldered blackbird with a slender, conical bill and a medium-length tail. Red-winged Blackbirds often show a hump-backed silhouette while perched; males often sit with tail slightly flared.
Male Red-winged Blackbirds are hard to mistake. They're an even glossy black with red-and-yellow shoulder badges. Females are crisply streaked and dark brownish overall, paler on the breast and often show a whitish eyebrow.
Male Red-winged Blackbirds do everything they can to get noticed, sitting on high perches and belting out their conk-la-ree! song all day long. Females stay lower, skulking through vegetation for food and quietly weaving together their remarkable nests. In winter Red-winged Blackbirds gather in huge flocks to eat grains with other blackbird species and starlings.
(Sony a1, 200-600/5.6-6.3 @ 600 mm, 1/3200 @ f/6.3, ISO 320, edited to taste)
Every artist needs some inspiration and, for this picture, mine was the White Album. Loved that album!
This is what they call a "record", and plastic disc that is spun around, wherein a needle is placed in the groove, and sounds ensue. I like this one because it's blue, and the contents, of course.
Description provided for those who do not know what this relic from the past is, lol!
508111, still in Beatles livery is seen at Leeds street bank with the 2U26 1407 Southport - Hunts Cross 19/3/22. (Taken using a pole)
Beatles/Beetles
I'm not a Beatles fan and I couldn't find any beetles in my garden, this time of the year is too cold for them I guess, but this postage stamp came in handy. At least it kept still.
Added to: Macro Mondays
If Klaus Voormann had Photoshop. Klaus Voormann is a Grammy Award-winning artist, graphic designer, noted musician, and record producer. He's 85 years young.
This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any forms or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying and recording without my written permission. © All rights reserved.
P.S. Big thank you to all visitors ... soon as possible I will thank you personally on your profile!
MACRO MONDAYS
Monday, November 28
Beatles / Beetles
H0 little people and plastic car for a real macro composition. enjoy !
Here Comes The Sun. Dawn rising behind The Beatles statue in Liverpool. 6.30am, the only time no-one was about!
Macro Monday theme:- Beatles/ Beetles
I went for the 1967 double A side of Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields.
George Martin later regretted not including the two songs on The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album.
The only reason that Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane didn't go onto the new album was a feeling that if we issued a single, it shouldn't go onto an album. That was a crazy idea, and I'm afraid I was partly responsible. It's nonsense these days, but in those days, it was an aspect that we'd try to give the public value for money.
The idea of a double A side came from me and Brian, really. Brian was desperate to recover popularity, and so we wanted to make sure that we had a marvellous seller. He came to me and said, 'I must have a really great single. What have you got?' I said, 'Well, I've got three tracks - and two of them are the best tracks they've ever made. We could put the two together and make a smashing single.' We did, and it was a smashing single - but it was also a dreadful mistake. We would have sold far more and got higher up in the charts if we had issued one of those with, say, When I'm Sixty-Four on the back