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The Gannets at Bempton will often collect grass,for their nests and for bonding with their mates.
This individual landed extremely close to the path with several others.They were largely hidden by the long grass but this one moved into partial view giving me the chance to get this close-up shot and I was delighted when I saw he had collected some flowers with the grass.
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#Knolling
Something strange happened: I had my MM image photographed and processed by Friday evening. That's a first ;)
When we had "Knolling" as a theme for the first time, I'd skipped, because I simply couldn't think of anything to knoll, let alone how to arrange it nicely. So this time I wanted to meet the challenge. My idea was to choose tiny things that I have collected as macro props over the years. But then the porcelain cat pendant that I keep in a small glass bowl together with other souvenirs and lucky charms caught my eye. And that gave me the idea to knoll some of my lucky charm keepsake pendants of which you already have seen three in MM themes: the silver heart, the tiny golden key, and the pendant with my zodiac sign engraved. Other than that most of these pendants are "animal themed", they also share their "fate" of never being actually worn – with the exception of the Cancer sign pendant which I got for my 7th birthday on a holiday in Italy. I think I have worn that from time to time, later it was attached as a lucky charm to the keyring/carabiner hook I keep my apartment keys on. The other pendants are presents or souvenirs from my childhood (the heart, the elephant, the bird), more recent presents (the key), and souvenirs from holidays (the porcelain cat, and the tiger cat which I brought along from Passau).
Size info: I decided to use the entire 7,5 cm / 3 inches frame (width) for "Knolling", negative space and image border (which is an overlayed, slightly transparent border, not an extra frame) included, so the items wouldn't be too cramped and the image could breathe. I didn't want to take the "mugshot with ruler", but the tiny key can serve for scale because it is exactly 1,5 cm / 0,59 inches long.
The final image is an in-camera focus stacking made of 15 photos. I've arranged the items on my tablet case, a totally random choice, because I'd only collected all pendants on my tablet simply because it lay right next to the glass bowl. But the case's light blue, textured surface made for a surprisingly nice-looking backdrop, and it also looked fresher than the gold-coloured cardboard or wooden coaster I'd originally wanted to use as background. Processed in Lightroom and Color Efex (Detail Extractor).
HMM, and Happy Easter Monday, Everyone!
Last summer was the first time I home-raised monarchs from the eggs collected from my milkweed plants. I normally would let nature take its course, but because we were getting so many days over 90°F, I didn't want the eggs to die from the extreme heat. The experience to care for and watch the life cycle of these beautiful butterflies was amazing. This photo was taken the day a male monarch hatched; his wings were still wet. I released him the next day.
If you have a garden, please plant milkweed to help the monarchs survive and don't use harmful pesticides.
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Camera obscura (plural camera obscura or camerae obscurae from Latin, meaning "dark room": camera "(vaulted) chamber or room," and obscura "darkened, dark"), also referred to as pinhole image, is the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen (or for instance a wall) is projected through a small hole in that screen, as a reversed and inverted image (left to right and upside down) on a surface opposite to the opening. The surroundings of the projected image have to be relatively dark for the image to be clear, so many historical camera obscura experiments were performed in dark rooms.
The term "camera obscura" also refers to constructions or devices that make use of the principle within a box, tent or room. Camerae obscurae with a lens in the opening have been used since the second half of the 16th century and became popular as an aid for drawing and painting. The camera obscura box was developed further into the photographic camera in the first half of the 19th century when camera obscura boxes were used to expose light-sensitive materials to the projected image.
The camera obscura was used as a means to study eclipses, without the risk of damaging the eyes by looking into the sun directly. As a drawing aid, the camera obscura allowed tracing the projected image to produce a highly accurate representation, especially appreciated as an easy way to achieve a proper graphical perspective.
A camera obscura device without a lens but with a very small hole is sometimes referred to as a "pinhole camera", although this more often refers to simple (home-made) lens-less cameras in which photographic film or photographic paper is used.
The earliest known written record of the camera obscura is to be found in Chinese writings called Mozi and dated to the 4th century BCE, traditionally ascribed to and named for Mozi (circa 470 BCE-circa 391 BCE), a Han Chinese philosopher and the founder of Mohist School of Logic. In these writings it is explained how the inverted image in a "collecting-point" or "treasure house" is inverted by an intersecting point (a pinhole) that collected the (rays of) light.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BCE), or possibly a follower of his ideas, touched upon the subject in the work Problems - Book XV, asking:
"Why is it that when the sun passes through quadri-laterals, as for instance in wickerwork, it does not produce a figure rectangular in shape but circular?”
and further on:
“Why is it that an eclipse of the sun, if one looks at it through a sieve or through leaves, such as a plane-tree or other broadleaved tree, or if one joins the fingers of one hand over the fingers of the other, the rays are crescent-shaped where they reach the earth? Is it for the same reason as that when light shines through a rectangular peep-hole, it appears circular in the form of a cone?"
Many philosophers and scientists of the Western world would ponder this question before it became accepted that the circular and crescent-shapes described in this "problem" were actually pinhole image projections of the sun. Although a projected image will have the shape of the aperture when the light source, aperture and projection plane are close together, the projected image will have the shape of the light source when they are further apart.
16/31: October 2021: A month in 31 pictures
Smile on Saturday: Begins with S - Star fish and seeds.
The seeds are collected from marigolds in my garden.
I am quite cross with myself as once I realised I had placed the front starfish upside down, the light was gone. So instead of the beautiful textures we have a smoother surface. In defence of my silly mistake, I have been very busy and I had my flu jab this morning. Keeping my fingers crossed for no symptoms, so far just a sore arm.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend.
Lensbaby Velvet 56
Swarovski used to make a lovely range of beads ... and I collected a few of each design I thought might photograph well. These are among my favourites. Called 'brilliants' they create all kinds of colours when the light hits them. These are tiny, about 8mm cubes.
For the Macro Monday challenge "In a row" (July 17th 2023)
My 2023 set: Here
previous years of the Macro Mondays challenge:
My 2022 set: Here
My 2021 set: Here
My 2020 set: Here
My 2019 set: Here
My 2018 set: Here
My 2017 set: Here
My 2016 set: Here
My 2015 set: Here
My 2014 set: Here
My 2013 set: Here
This is part of an M&S tableware set called Autumn Leaves.
I started collecting it when I got married over 50 years ago and have added to it over the years, often as because it was going out of fashion, but it's timeless to me.
It's stoneware and very long lasting.
Collected items from the new Collabor88, which started yesterday, are on show today. First the new skin from Glam Affair that I showed you yesterday, and then this nice flyaway bobcut from Tableau Vivant and super-sexy new bikini from Blueberry.
Each step was greeted with the crunching sound of cold beneath my feet. The collected leaves were frozen together with no distinction between them. They were all frozen, different, yet all the same. This is Hoarfrost.
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The monumental building dates from 1656 and was designed by Daniël Stalpaert as a warehouse for the Admiralty of Amsterdam. The warehouse housed cannons, sails, flags and naval equipment for the war fleet. About 40,000 liters of rainwater were collected in the barrel vaults under the courtyard for the drinking water supply for the ships. The Zeemagazijn was built on 2,300 piles, but nevertheless the building subsided. Buttresses and additional risalites were to prevent further subsidence or even collapse. In 1791 the building burned down, except for the stone walls. The blackened brick facades disappeared under a layer of plaster that was supposed to represent blocks of sandstone. In 1795, Napoleon Bonaparte invaded the country and the Batavian Republic was founded. The five Admiralties were disbanded and replaced by a national navy. The Zeemagazijn became a warehouse for the navy. This remained so until the early 1970s.
"...Power
Got me sittin' by my phone, I've been waiting for hours
On my line, sending mirror pics of you fresh out the shower
So I might as well swing over to your place, mmh, nah
It's crowded" -Khalid
I've collected quite a number of photos that I have never touched over last 12 months. I am in the process of clearing the backlog and archiving the photos that are worth saving. I found this one which I kinda like. This was taken last year at the start of Spring Season.
Details:
Canon 5D mk III
EF 70-200mm 2.8
Handheld and no filter used
Camera in Manual Mode
"This species is named after British engraver Thomas Bewick-a friend of pioneering bird artist John James Audubon, who collected the first recognized specimen." nps.gov. Not named after " Scottish entrepreneur David Dunbar Buick, who is the creator of the infant Model B back in 1904." globalcarsbrands.com
Day 258/365:
We collected our grandson from school and took him to his swimming lesson today. This is an ICM (using the slow shutter app on my iPhone) of one of the interesting buildings next to the swimming pool. I blended two images together for a bit more oomph.
I'm hanging in here by the skin of my teeth and apologise for my lack of involvement. I really picked the wrong year to decide to do another 365.
---- some short stories, collected while walking down the street ... offering a last goodbye to the street artist video maker & photographer Gaetano: together we shared many beautiful moments in search of those fleeting moments .... that many times made us laugh because funny, damn because too fleeting, think because life is not always makes discounts .....
goodbye My friend.....
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---- alcune storie minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ... porgendo un ultimo saluto allo street artist video maker & photographer Gaetano: insieme abbiamo condiviso tanti bei momenti alla ricerca di quegli attimi fuggenti....che tante volte ci hanno fatto ridere perchè buffi, dannare perchè troppo fuggenti, pensare perchè la vita non sempre fa sconti.....
addio amico mio.....
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I have collected my motorbike from winter storage, and today, on Good Friday, I went to search for spring. And I found it!
Strangely enough I drove north to find spring. Fjaerland, where we live, is pretty heavy on snow most winters. There might be snowfree ground a month earlier both to the south and the north of us, as it is this winter.
The main photo is from Byrkjello, looking south to the rather famous Eggenipa. It is a mountain walk I'd love to do, and I don't think is quite as challanging as it looks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY39Frzg8WQ
There are a few more photos in the first comment.
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click to activate the icon of slideshow: the small triangle inscribed in the small rectangle, at the top right, in the photostream;
clicca sulla piccola icona per attivare lo slideshow: sulla facciata principale del photostream, in alto a destra c'è un piccolo rettangolo (rappresenta il monitor) con dentro un piccolo triangolo nero;
Qi Bo's photos on Flickr Hive Mind
www.fotografidigitali.it/gallery/2726/opere-italiane-segn...
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---- alcune storie minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ...
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click to activate the icon of slideshow: the small triangle inscribed in the small rectangle, at the top right, in the photostream;
clicca sulla piccola icona per attivare lo slideshow: sulla facciata principale del photostream, in alto a destra c'è un piccolo rettangolo (rappresenta il monitor) con dentro un piccolo triangolo nero;
Qi Bo's photos on Flickr Hive Mind
www.fotografidigitali.it/gallery/2726/opere-italiane-segn...
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Collected on the retaining stone wall of my neighbor's garden.
Gesammelt an der Stütz-Steinmauer meines Nachbarn Garten.
---- some short stories, collected while walking down the street ...
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click to activate the icon of slideshow: the small triangle inscribed in the small rectangle, at the top right, in the photostream;
clicca sulla piccola icona per attivare lo slideshow: sulla facciata principale del photostream, in alto a destra c'è un piccolo rettangolo (rappresenta il monitor) con dentro un piccolo triangolo nero;
Qi Bo's photos on Flickr Hive Mind
www.fotografidigitali.it/gallery/2726/opere-italiane-segn...
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