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This is my contribution to this weeks Macro Monday theme of Rock;
I collected these small rocks/ pebbles/stones from a beach on the Isle of Lewis and Harris and kept them for their colours and textures. I like them and I hope you do too! HMM
This is my contribution to Macro Mondays Look Up
And when I look up I of course lay down first
It's a pretty cool 'challenge' because you get to see it all in a different perspective than you normally do
Which is the story of my life lol
I think you can change things by doing just that
It is easier to observe things when you use a different perspective, putting on your objective glasses and look at what you are doing with your life, no judging
So
There I lay all down on the tiny spot where there is no snow, all by the house
Look UP
says Macro Mondays
And there they are
Small angel wings waving in the wind - making it a bit difficult to take a macro of course
I believe in many things, I love light and what that stands for and I know there are angels on earth
By having this belief I look for signs
If I had beliefs which was on the opposite side, the dark side, I would have looked for signs for my belief then too
That is why it can be difficult to get out of a pattern, we are being reassured that things are the way we think, like they are in our belief, because we have it around us in our sphere, social media, which groups do we follow, what news we want to be fed by.
Not to mention the people we are surrounded by - well we choose them for a certain reason, they match us somehow, until they don't.
I guess we feel safe having this common belief, either it has a light side or a dark side.
Fear is, I think, a foundation deep in us from the ancient days when we were hunting or being hunted at
Fear of
Not having enough food
Not having sufficient clothings
Not having roof over your head
Not having a job
Not having enough money
Not being cool enough
Not being good enough
Not having the body you see in the ads
Not having the hair you want
Not being socially accepted
Not doing your job good enough
Not being the best friend
Not being the best parent ever
aso
The ones that control us by using our fears knows exactly what they are doing
Of course they do, they see it work every time
Be aware of the manipulative people you have around you and stop them by withdrawing, no need to take a fight with them, they will never understand
Being aware of what sides of you they manipulate will indeed make you grow, then you can do something about that, you have a choice to get out of the pattern
Choose your people
They influence you more then you can imagine
Have a lovely week
I know my week will be awesome, of course it will, because I want it to
My contribution to the Macro Mondays Group Challenge for 3 Octoberr 2016 - "In a Row"
I origianlly went looking for 2 people arguing but realised that wasn't what this was about!
A little bit of love and romance goes a long way in this strange world! Here's my contribution - a teeny weeny gold paper heart encapsulated in a water drop.
For Macro Mondays theme of "Heart". HMM and Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
My contribution to ”Smile on Saturday! :-)” on theme ”Display the D” D as in Dome. The Dome is called ”The Refuging Pavillion” and is a part of Rejmyre Art Lab´s Center for Peripheral Studies.
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Mitt bidrag till ”Smile on Saturday! :-) på temat ”Display the D/Visa D:et” Kupolen heter ”Tillflyktspaviljongen” och är en del av Rejmyre Art Labs center för perifera studier. (Dome is kupol in Swedish)
contribution to MM challenge for 26/10/20, theme: one colo(u)r
was tempted to replicate the recent "yellow" theme! I missed the last time one colour was the theme (I think) but did put an image up that met the criteria, perhaps the following week (Feb 2018 ish). I've also taken the opportunity to catch up with the recent "string" theme so it's 2-4-1 today only.
The life-size bronze sculpture of Scottish businessman and charity founder Sandy Irvine Robertson OBE (1942–1999) sits on a public bench at The Shore in Leith, Edinburgh, right outside the Malmaison Hotel. Commissioned by his friends and sculpted by Lucy Poett, the artwork has become a popular, interactive photo opportunity where visitors sit beside the statue.The artwork honors Robertson's life and contributions
My contribution to “Looking Close… on Friday!” on theme “Red on white background”
This mini chair is only about 12 cm high and a mini model from Edsbyverken in Hälsingland, Sweden which produced this type of chair in a large size for people to sit on. In 1910, Edsbyverken began manufacturing skis and from the waste wood they made about 5 million chairs until 1970 when production ceased.
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Mitt bidrag till ”Looking Close… on Friday!” på temat ”Rött mot vit bakgrund”
Den här ministolen är bara ca 12 cm hög och en minimodell från Edsbyverken i Hälsingland som producerat den här sortens stolar i stor storlek för människor att sitta på. 1910 började Edsbyverken tillverka skidor och av spillvirket tillverkade de ca 5 miljoner pinnstolar fram till 1970 då tillverkningen lades ner.
My final contribution to Flickr this year is an abstract image of a bridge between two buildings. One can also see it as a transition between 2 years. In reality, it is the by Daniel Liebeskind designed Kö Bogen buildings in Düsseldorf.
I wish you all a great and inspiring 2026!
Prints are available at bramdejong.werkaandemuur.nl/nl
The sky-blue smiles above the roof
Its tenderest;
A green tree rears above the roof
Its waving crest.
The church-bell in the windless sky
Peaceably rings,
A skylark soaring in the sky
Endlessly sings.
My God, my God, all life is there,
Simple and sweet;
The soothing bee-hive murmur there
Comes from the street!
What have you done, O you that weep
In the glad sun,--
Say, with your youth, you man that weep,
What have you done?
Paul Verlaine
I believe they were gifted to Canada by the Netherlands commemorating Canadian contribution to the defeat of Nazis during WWII
contribution to Macro Mondays theme for 5/6/17 - "silhouette"
This isn't truly a backlit silhouette. Basically it's a VERY underexposed plant with a made up background shot in camera using flashes and foil. There, my secret's out.
Note that despite appearances this isn't a flower, it's some kind of succulent that lives in our bathroom. The shoot is new growth and the entirety of what is shown here measures about an inch!
More flash info: 2x Nikon SB-R200 units, one with green and one with amber gel. set behind subject firing onto foil covered board. both set to manual and 1/50 controlled by camera built in commander. rear curtain sync.
Contribution to the #AdamsPhotoChallenge - Vacation Time! - Pic2
Taken at : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Maniku%20Bay/24/2...
A beautiful day at Hengelo (Gelderland):-)
At our photoclub we had to make a picture like a famous photographer that we like. This was my contribution. I have a great favorite and that is Martin Kers🌞 I took the picture from The land of Martin Kers with the picture Tree (Het land van Martin Kers met afbeelding boom) as an example and I found it here that day🌞
My contribution to the May/June 2016 issue of the LTD Magazine
Credits and info here
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Read full issue here:
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Pics by Jordan Giant!
'At the still point of the turning world.
Neither flesh nor fleshless;
neither from nor towards;
at the still point,
there the dance is.'
TS Eliot
Project 365-062 and...
another imaginative contribution to a walking trail; this second one is on the west side of the park at the base of a large tree.
Our contribution for the new round of THE CHALLENGE : Steampunk. A Vintage Camera, Gramophone and a Suitcase Side Table. The Gramophone Plays "Blue Skies" on Touch.
Camera: LI 5
Gramophone: LI 4
Suitcase Side Table: LI 3
All items will be available at the 22769 ~ [bauwerk] Mainstore (SURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wooden%20Bay/36/124/23)
The Challenge : Steampunk starts 31st May 2016. thechallengesl.wordpress.com/
#MacroMonday
#DutchAngle
Please press "Z" :)
A very unusual (for me) MM contribution in quite a few ways, because it is a photo that I have neither taken at home nor specifically for the "dutch angle" theme – this fluffy feather was a chance discovery at last Wednesday's (fabuloutastic, I should add) photowalk at the Olympic stadium; I didn't even think about the theme when I found this pretty feather in a corner of a step of one of the many, many staircases there. And of course this isn't the photo from that walk that I'd planned to upload first, either ;-). But often things don't turn out as expected (something which happens a lot lately when it comes to MMs), and that's not always a bad thing.
This small feather, about 6 cm / 2,3 inches long, came to my rescue when my original idea didn't work out – which every way I tried to make it work (it was a small spoke reflector which I'd once found in the street; the idea was to capture its distorted reflection which made it look like a flowing piece of honeycomb, something that came to my mind because of the reflector's honeycombed structure; well, to make it short, I never managed to get the distorted reflection sharp enough so it would be pleasant to look at; maybe I can still make it work later... I also tried to magnify those honecomb patterns inside of the reflector by using the extension tubes and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens – but, no, it wasn't meant to work).
But back to my "Olympic feather": Most conveniently, I had already taken it at a dutch angle (Mr Freud, can you hear me?). It is a single handheld picture taken with the Ricoh (the GRIII rocks!) which I've sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI, and then further processed it in Nik's HDR Efex Pro – I started with the "En Vogue" preset "Cool Deep" which I'd then still tweaked a little here or there. And because the staircase I'd found this feather on had been in a shadowy corner of the stadium (and the feather in an even more shadowy corner of the step), the DNG outcome was rather dull; to add some much needed light I went into ON1 where I added a "Sunflare" texture filter to the upper left corner of the image; back in LR I added the preset "Soft Fog" and tweaked the luminosity and saturation sliders for a dreamy look.
HMM, Everyone, stay safe and healthy!
Nicht das, was ich eigentlich für's Thema machen wollte, aber das passiert mir in letzter Zeit häufiger ;-) Meine ursprüngliche Idee war es, die verzerrte Spiegelung eines kleinen Speichenreflektors (ein Straßenfund) auf einer Spiegelfliese zu fotografieren; die Verzerrung ließ den Reflektor wie ein fließendes Stück Honigwabe aussehen, was auch schön mit der wabenartigen Struktur des Reflektors korrespondierte – nur wollte es mir partout nicht gelingen, der Verzerrung zumindest ein wenig Schärfe abzuringen. Ich habe dann versucht, die Wabenstruktur im Innern des Reflektors mithilfe der Zwischenringe und der Raynox-DCR-250-Makrolinse zu vergrößern, aber auch hier hatten die Endergebnisse zu wenig Schärfe.
Irgendwann, es war schon ziemlich später Abend (wie immer), gab ich frustriert auf. Zum Glück fiel mir dann die flauschige Feder ein, die ich letzte Woche zufällig auf einer der unzähligen Stufen des Olympiastadions entdeckt und aus der Hand mit der GRIII fotografiert hatte. Die Größe (gut 6 cm) passte, den Winkel hatte ich bei der Aufnahme (unbewusst? Freud lässt grüßen, denn vor Ort hatte ich überhaupt nicht an das Dutch-Angle-Thema gedacht) auch schon passend schräg gewählt... Warum also nicht, auch wenn diese Feder nicht das Foto ist, das ich als Erstes vom (außerordentlich schönen) Fotowalk dort hochladen wollte. Ich habe das Bild dann in Topaz Sharpen AI nachgeschärft (Modus "Stabilize") und in HDR Efex ausgehend von der Voreinstellung "En Vogue: Cool Deep" bearbeitet. Was dann noch fehlte, war etwas mehr Licht bzw. Leuchten, denn die Feder hatte auf einer der Treppen auf der Schattenseite des Olympiastadions gelegen und das DNG war recht flau und trüb. Also habe ich in ON1 noch eine "Sunflare"-Textur drübergelegt und in LR die Weißtöne aufgehellt und als Abschluss noch die Voreinstellung "Weicher Nebel" (mit zusätzlichen Veränderungen meinerseits bei der Struktur, Luminanz und Sättigung) für ein weicheres, verträumtes Aussehen verwendet.
Manchmal kommt es eben anders, als man denkt, aber das muss ja nichts Schlechtes sein ;-) Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, passt weiterhin gut auf Euch auf!
Our contribution of the January round of Memento Mori: The HR Giger inspired "Silent Scream Loveseat".
The Chair has 6 Landimpact and the dimensions: 2.0 x 1.6 x 1.5 meters. The Loveseat comes in PG Version (10 Single- and 10 Couple Animations) as well as Adult Version (10 Single, 10 couple and 16 Adult Animations).
Memento Mori openes January 15th 2017 and runs 4 weeks.
SURL to Memento Mori: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Infernal%20Land/185/122/2017
Website: mementomorievent.wordpress.com/
My contribution for this week's theme "morning", for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.
Torsdagmorgon. Det var nästan lite Jack the Ripper-känsla när man gick från Slussen ner över Skeppsbron och vidare till Blasieholmen. Tyckte mig höra en mistlur ljuda, men det var bara en kråka som intagit kalufsen på Gustav III, och gällt skrek ut sin herre på täppan-seger. Passade bra att du intog huvudstaden just den här veckan när det stod "morgon" på tema-schemat. Tack, Dimman, tack.
A contribution to the Paris climate agreement.
I think, if nothing changes or things get worse, many will pay a high price.
An vision,
made with stable diffusion,topaz and photoshop.
MM contribution 18/3/19, theme something to do with the first letter of my surname!!
Well this does indeed begin with the first letter of my surname. It then goes on to use the second, third and fourth letters of my surname in order. Then it stops.
Some flash usage here again but not interesting as it was all trial and error!!
My contribution to Valentine's Day... you might get a sense that I'm not a hopeless romantic LOL
Anyway, these two did seem to have lots of feelings for each other. Happy Valentine's Day!
My contribution to this weeks Fotosöndag/Photo Sunday on the theme Kaskac/cascade. On saturday the city of Trelleborg celebrated beacause we finally got Pågatåg/passenger train to the City.
My (belated) contribution to the Bluebell season. Like most photographers I would have loved that epic morning shot of a forest glade with mist and morning light falling across a carpet of Bluebells. I didn't get it so I decided to while away an hour playing with bokeh. The spider was just an added bonus.
My contribution for the swedish group photosunday/fotosöndag, theme "way"/"väg". Efter att kört runt utan att hitta den rätta "vägen" blev det så här.
As a small contribution to the Independence Day festivities Keolis/MBTA parked this stunning locomotive on Main 1 in the pocket between the front and back ladders of the Tower A interlocking just outside North Station in plain view for the passengers on every passing train. GP40MC 1776 (former 1131) is the newest 'heritage unit', the sixth of the MBTA's planned 8 (or maybe 10) unit fleet of 'heritage' locomotives dressed in one of a kind colors. While the first five were painted to pay homage to the system's early years and its historic predecessors this one wears red, white and blue in honor of the 250th Anniversary of American independence. This gorgeous contribution to an ever growing list of patriotic locomotives done up by railroads from coast to coast could also be considered a true 'heritage unit' as the scheme very faithfully mirrors that worn by Boston and Maine Railroad 200, a GP38-2 specially painted for the Bicentennial a half century ago.
She complements Old Glory which flys proudly atop the Boston Sand and Gravel complex which is the last major freight customer in the terminal, and continues to be served two or three nights a week by CSXT train L065 from Dover, NH (former Pan Am Railways DOBO) which runs thru with New Hampshire Northcoast power.
Here is a fun little article I found about the company that seems so out of place here in the heart of a changed city: www.theawl.com/2017/08/the-most-overlooked-thing-in-bosto....
Oh, and since I know you all love coming here for irreverent non-railroad facts here is something I learned researching this caption. Boston Sand's current President and CEO is Dean Boylan Jr. He is at least a third generation employee of the company that has been in business since 1914. But the cool fact I discovered is that his father, Dean M. Boylan Sr. who became president of Boston Sand in 1956 did something far greater for the community than supply concrete. In 1959 he was one of the 10 founders of the American Football League's Boston Patriots that in 1970 joined the NFL and in 1971 moved to Foxborough to became the New England Patriots....and the rest is history.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Saturday July 4, 2026
Today we have blue Christmas lights in a wooden hand. It is my contribution to Sliders Sunday Group.
Happy Holidays to you all and Merry Christmas my Flickr friends! See you soon, with another picture !
And HSS to all participants!
Thank you so much for your comments /favs and support! I’m humbled and grateful!!! I wish you all an amazing day and see you soon on Flickr!!
contribution to MM challenge for 19/2/18: Fasteners.
I'd never photographed a zipper but had seen many pictures of them that really impressed me so I set out to have a go. This is the result! I became more obsessed with the button then with encapsulating 2 fasteners in the same image.
It was really hard to keep still while I took this.
As a small contribution to Boston's Independence Day festivities Keolis/MBTA parked this stunning locomotive just outside North Station in plain view for the passengers on every passing train. Orginally it had been placed on Main 1 beneath the giant stars and stripes flying above Boston Sand and Gravel, but after the sun went down it was repositioned to Main 4 on the approach to span 2 of the Charles River drawbridge.
GP40MC 1776 (former 1131) is the newest 'heritage unit', the sixth of the MBTA's planned 8 (or maybe 10) unit fleet of 'heritage' locomotives dressed in one of a kind colors. While the first five were painted to pay homage to the system's early years and its historic predecessors this one wears red, white and blue in honor of the 250th Anniversary of American independence. This gorgeous contribution to an ever growing list of patriotic locomotives done up by railroads from coast to coast could also be considered a true 'heritage unit' as the scheme very faithfully mirrors that worn by Boston and Maine Railroad 200, a GP38-2 specially painted for the Bicentennial a half century ago.
Rain delayed the start of the Boston Pops' annual concert on the Half Shell and correspondingly pushed back the drone show and fireworks by about an hour. Finally, despite the continued drizzle, the show went on as seen lighting the inky night sky in a spectacular burst of color and light about a mile up the Charles River. At right note the blue and red illuminated spire of the 1951 built Museum of Science and a blur of light from a passing Green Line trolley atop the circa 1912 Lechmere Viaduct.
This view was captured from the platform of the temporary Tower A drawbridge operators shanty which will be replaced with a modern permanent structure as part of the MBTA'S nearly one billion dollar project to replace the aging and failure prone spans and reconfigure Tower A. This will include three new vertical lift spans allowing for six tracks to cross the river and the addition of two more platform tracks in the terminal, but alas will lead to the demolition of the historic Boston and Maine built spans and the still standing but derelict brick Tower A just out of sight to the right.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Saturday July 4, 2026
Koh Lanta becomes deserted in April, some hotels are already closed during the rainy season and it's nice to see these long, deserted beaches.
Thank you all for your faves and comments, which make me want to continue my modest contribution to sharing with all of you😊
My contribution to the 12.12 Project (instant photography collective) for June 2019. Our theme is la joie de vivre, which, for me is present in quiet moments, in intimacy, in the flowering of the plants on my balcony, in a beautifully written story....
My contribution for this week's theme «dreams»; for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.
Mitt bidrag till Fotosöndag och veckans tema «drömmar».
Our contribution for the January Round of THE CHALLENGE. With the chosen theme „Farm“ we crafted these „Little Farm Beds“. Each Bed is 0.7 x 1.9 meters in dimensions. In the package are: Empty Bed (LI 1 / 0.2 meters height), Carrots Bed (LI 1 / 0.4 meters height), Savoy Cobbage Bed (LI 4 / 0.4 meters height), Salad Bed (LI 2 / 0.3 meters height and the Beetroot Bed (LI 2 / 0.6 meters height).
The Little Farm Beds will be availabe 31st January at 22769 ~ [bauwerk].
Macro Mondays contribution for 6 Feb 2017 - "Say Cheese"
I hate cheese. Can't stand it. But this is an idea I have had for quite some time and I thought this was the best opportunity to actually try it out. The idea being to keep your mouse well fed!
Mitt bidrag till veckans fotosöndag/My contribution to this week Photosunday/Fotosöndag on the theme Drömmar /Dreams
contribution to MM challenge for 14/10/19, theme: "wire"
strangely difficult to find a piece of electrical wire without buying a a whole reel from B&Q!
wasn't my first choice and seeing some of today's contributions it shows how narrow minded I was about this challenge, and what I could have done...
Just one note about this image - the background is part of the image and was created in camera, rather than in post prod.
This is Jenny's contribution from the beautiful sky on the morning we left Coonabarabran, New South Wales for the coast. It was a fabulous sunrise, taken on her phone but as per the old saying, it did herald a change in weather as a cold wet front swept in from the west. I didn't take a shot here but stopped down the road a bit for an attempted slightly different view. We were in the middle of nowhere of course and the spot I pulled over in had a bikie (motor bike rider) sleeping beside his bike in the roadside grass (not happy Jan), the colour dropped out of the scene in less than the ninety seconds we took to reposition - of course and lastly, my shot managed to have a set of powerlines through the most colourful part. Portent indeed, the trash bin for that shot.
Thankfully, although this was our longest drive of the trip, some 500 kilometres it was mostly on quiet country highways and some easy freeways leading towards Newcastle and the Central Coast. And one other blessing, we rarely leave quite this early to avoid kangaroos and the like but we saw none that day and little roadkill and in fact, while we have seen two mobs of emus, luckily so far, no incursions nor sightings of live kangaroos. Our wide brown land without a sighting of a kangaroo! Sometimes it happens that way.
By the way, if you look closely at this country scene, it is why we love our driving holidays in Australia, there is nothing quite like the sight, sound and smell of early mornings on country roads in our great country. I haven't really started my shots from the trip yet and will probably wait until we get home. It will give me something to do and keep me out of mischief!
My contribution to BENCH MONDAY. I hope your week started on a high note and I hope that it will remain that way.
Thank you so much for stopping by and for the kind comments and favs. They are very much appreciated!