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- Oh, dear old and wise Soothsayer, at last I found you! Please tell me my future! - asked the little ant.
- Come on, my boy, look into my magic ball! - answered the Soothsayer - I can see your future... your life will be happy and long in the glass jungle!
- I'm so glad! - said the little ant - Anything else?
- Hmm... yes... wait a minute, I can see something more! - answered the Soothsayer - We will be the heroes of a cool macro photo and we will be the stars of the Flickr! :))
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This photo is a very good explanation why I love the macro photography! :)
Macro Mondays. Screw
This monument was constructed to remember all the screws that have come and gone.
The monument is made from a 1-1/2 inch magnet and 13 screws measuring from 3/4 inch and 2-1/2 inches.
I did learn several things about screws at the hardware store. There are many different types of screws, 42 types to be exact.
These are Flat Phillips. Also by trial and error I found out brass screws, my first choice because they're prettier, don't stick on a magnet, duh! And then I bored the guy helping me with Flickr pictures of all your cool Macro Mondays screw pictures. He was impressed!!
Cup and saucer. Can't have one without the other. Someone said that once...or was that about love and marriage?! Oh yeah, Frank Sinatra.
I took this a few days ago now. I started my day by driving to Banff. First on the list was Two Jack Lake. It yielded me images like this plus some other really cool macro shots.
You can buy this photo from Getty Images.
Another shot of rain formed on our wheelie bin lid. Applied a cold tone filter in Lr with a few slides thrown in too.
Ferrite core memory from an IBM 360 main frame computer for the Macro Monday's group, challenge: My Closest. The markings on the wooden rule are 1mm. Two large markings are 1cm. Closest without a crop.
Happy Macro Monday!
Based on all of the cool images I have seen posted for this week's challenge, I'm afraid I took the challenge far too literally and didn't even think about how to meet the challenge artistically like so many of you did. Way to go! Some really cool macros this week!
It's wonderful to walk right out from the patio down to the pond! So many cool macro subjects. Familiar Bluets everywhere!!!
Woke up this morning to it only being 30 degrees which means there was a little bit of frost! I even had to dig out my winter hat to go shooting this morning.
It might be time to buy that macro lens again. I owned one once before but I jumped into macro photography way too early and got discouraged but now that I've learned to see finer details in things I'm getting the macro bug. Haha.
Not the photo I was planning on upload today but I coulden't resist, really wanted to share this one today!
I was rummaging through some stuff recently and came across a little demonstration circuit board that I obtained during my working career as a trade journalist. The board contained this device, which is smaller than my thumbnail, and I thought it might make a cool macro.
I don't remember a lot about it, but I think this device was intended to demonstrate the ability of the sponsoring company to construct tiny circuit connections. This would have been from the early 1990s, and must have been a device made for Sandia Labs and Aptos Corp. It was photographed at 2X magnification. You can zoom in for a closer look.
I was away from the computer all day and had no time to flickr. Managed to get some cool macros, though, as I was outdoors in the morning. Now it's late, but before I went to bed I wanted to share with you a photo of the first damselfly I spotted this year :-)
I think it's a female, but I don't know exactly what species...
Best viewed Large On Black.
I will be out for most of the day tomorrow, too. Hope to get some more photos. I wish you all a wonderful weekend and promise to visit your photostreams soon!
This is my first tryout with extension tubes. I used my trusted 50mm prime at the end of it. The flower petal is back lit with standard LED torch. I sprayed water on the petal to get some cool macro effects. The presence of this ant ... is sheer luck :)
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FlickrFriday: Hand tools. For photography, I like any object at home that can be turned into a cool macro, or bokeh.
Our Daily Challenge: Brush(es)
Compositionally Challenged: Reflections week - the brush is a reflection, everything that is 'real' is blurred and turned into bokeh. :-)
365: Day 225
Jumping spider from Ecuador
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The world needs more jumping spiders. Fair enough, the jumping spider family, Salticidae, is already the largest family of spiders, and there are about 5,000 different species. But I cannot get enough of this wonderful little spider. Jumping spiders are very curious. The trick to photographing them is to snap them before they jump onto your camera lens. Please tell me if you work out how to do that easily.
Savannah Lodge in Kidepo might have been my favorite place to stay in Uganda. Not so much for our individual lodging, which was a large sturdy canvas tent on a platform, containing real beds and its own bathroom in the rear (though out through a zippered flap), and a covered deck with chairs and a view. Not bad, and I enjoyed the lizard that tucked itself in for the evenings between the outer canvas flap and the screen. An excellently safe hiding place! It disappeared during the day, but was always there when we returned in the dark from dinner.
It was the main lodge that I particularly enjoyed, where we spent much time watching the birds that came to the water feature. This building was an expansive space with tables, chairs, and sofas, a roof and a back wall, but otherwise open to a broad view of the scrubby savannah landscape. Oddly, I don't recall being bothered by insects, despite the presence of tsetse flies in the area. Perhaps the traps hanging from trees did a good job. The roof was a tropical-looking conical thatched structure with interior wooden bracing beams like one would expect over a tiki bar, but rather vast. It was tall and dark up there, and if I was lucky I could spot a bat clinging high above before it took off, bothered by the seeking beam of my flashlight.
I had seen a couple of spiderwebs, which prompted me to ask one of the staff members in the lodge whether he was aware of any spiders around, explaining that I like to photograph them. When we later sat down to dinner, he came by, grinning, to inform me he had found me a spider. I asked if it would stay there a while, and was assured that it would. After I collected my macro gear, the man pointed at a ceiling beam above, to which I could see clinging an impressive specimen, plainly visible across the distance. Cool!! Macro flash is not very strong, as macro lenses require the camera to be fairly close to the subject, so I had to stand on a tall chair to reach it, amused by some people giving me the side-eye for getting so close to a spider that big. Despite claiming they didn't like spiders, several members of the staff were very keen to see the details my camera could show them.
This is a species of crescent-eyed spider, named for the eye arrangement that forms an inverted arc. Members of the family Selenopidae, to which they belong, are known as "flatties" due to their flattened bodies. There is so much fascinating information about this group of spiders that I may have to post another view of this one so I can share it!
3 Arachtober 2025
Selenops sp., possibly S. radiatus
Savannah Lodge, Kidepo, Uganda • 5 January 2025
i really wish i knew what that vegetation was actually called. there's lots of it growing on the hillside next to highway 1 near second narrows bridge in vancouver. some kind of wild grass that makes me think of grain..
the police had set up a traffic diversion on the highway, about 300m away, hence the coloured lights.
I've been trying to get some cool macro shots and to get the dof needed I quickly learned I needed to use my flash gun. I had the sync cord already but the flash was never where I needed it and a ring flash is just not in the cards so I'm trying this setup out.
I just received this handy flex arm today. Heavier than I thought it would be but it's perfect to keep the flash where I want it but still able to adjust where the light is coming from. It works much better than the umbrella holder I had on the previous shot especially because I can move it clear to the side easily. The sync cord allows me to shoot in E-TTL.