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After many days the sun finally broke through the grey clouds. Much like the weather, it is important to reach for the sweet things in life when the road has been rather rough. Here's to finding moments of joy and love.
Playing with a sheet of glass and corn syrup, I found myself lost in colors and forms. “You can’t look at abstract art without thinking.” – Patricia Cole-Ferullo
Playing with corn syrup on a flat piece of glass was entertaining. "If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists."
Ralph Nader
"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
Henry David Thoreau
One sunny day I decided to try something new. Gathering glass from a small picture frame, some toothpicks and a bottle of corn syrup, I was ready. My mind wandered as I painted away with the sticky substance.
To highlight this creation, I elevated it above a brightly colored image. What a sweet way to spend some time.
“Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.” Marc Chagall
“To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.” – Ben Shahn
There are times that living in another world is beneficial to your mental health. "This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
Henry David Thoreau
“Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.”
Marc Chagall
When wandering back through old images, I came across this swirl of colors. I remember filling a small glass bowl with water, then drizzling liquid corn syrup into the mix. I love happy accidents. :)
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."...Albert Einstein
There is something quite wonderful about tuning out all external noise. Pouring liquids into glass bowls and playing with the light streaming through my windows was the perfect way to spend the morning. It is good to invite peace and quiet into one's space.
A rainy day, music filling the air and experimenting with a new paint medium....corn syrup! This might be the beginning of a new and beautiful friendship. Here's to trying new things!
One afternoon I filled a bowl with water, a few drops of oil, and then a dash or two of corn syrup. The flowing shapes were mesmerizing. I found myself lost in thought as I watched blobs morph in their liquid bath. "Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it."
Laozi
A few days ago I'd been doing a bit of online research, looking for new ways to inspire my creativity. When I read that some people use corn syrup as an ingredient for macrophotography, I was more than delighted. I just knew I had both dark and light corn syrup in my kitchen cupboard. After playing with dots and swirls, I decided to try my hand at creating a liquid flower. The rain outside does nothing to dampen my photographic spirits.
Years ago I started playing with a simple piece of glass and a bit of corn syrup. This might be the best use of that ingredient, as opposed to putting it in so many commercially made products. :)
“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”
- Oscar Wilde
This image was captured some time ago. I do remember using a toothpick to drag through some corn syrup that had been placed on a piece of glass. The reflected colors came from a children's picture book placed under the glass.
One sunny day I decided to try something new. Using a piece of glass as my canvas, I grabbed some corn syrup and a toothpick.
Cleaning up the sticky mess took some time, but I felt it was worth the experience.
Wikipedia states..."Corn syrup is a food syrup that is made from the starch of corn/maize and contains varying amounts of sugars. Corn syrup is used in foods to soften texture, add volume, prevent crystallization of sugar, and enhance flavor."
However, I have found that one can create interesting images by slowly pouring corn syrup into water when experimenting with items in the kitchen.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw
One afternoon I decided to experiment with corn syrup. Placing tiny dots of the gooey stuff on a clear piece of glass, I discovered new colorful worlds.
Four years ago during a very cold spell I set up the tripod just outside my front door and photographed some frozen bubbles on the porch railing. It's kind of amazing to see the crystal shapes forming, gliding across the surface of the bubble and then freezing. For the most part I photographed entire bubbles, but I did get closer with the macro lens to go fully into pattern and abstraction. Beauty for its own sake. It's a worthwhile pursuit: it feeds the heart as well as the mind.
I wouldn't recommend using f/36 under most circumstances, but focusing very closely with a 105mm macro + 1.7x teleconverter meant extremely shallow DOF - a few mm at most. And of course I was working with a curved, not flat, surface. So... I was willing to put up with a slight loss of sharpness for the extra depth of field.
This shot begins a new image set: four photos of ice in winter. To be followed by revisiting my years on the coast of Vancouver Island, where water flows year round.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Ice crystals make a frozen soap bubble on the coldest morning of the year.
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Macro Mondays: Crystal
[Explored 02/23/2016]
It's the most important weekend of the year for these marshmallow bunnies. Sugar, corn syrup, and yellow dye number 5. Buddy the Elf would love these.
Happy Easter, everyone!!
Macro Mondays
I am now able to enjoy Soda again thanks to Longevity Soda Tinctures. These concentrates are actually really good for you. The Super Berry (and others) are loaded with superfoods and flavor. The best thing is there's no sugar, high fructose cornsyrup and horrible chemicals like in canned pop!
Here is the ingredients in the Super Berry:
Schizandra Berry*, Amla Berry*, Hawthorn Berry*, Elderberry*, Hibiscus Flower*, Dual Extracted Schizandra/Hawthorn Extract*, Stevia*, Blackberry Concentrate* (Proprietary Blend of Fruits and Vegetable Extracts*, Gum Acacia*, and Citric Acid*), Vegetable Glycerin*, Alcohol*
*Indicates Organic
There will be no Christmas if we don't have Baklava on our dessert display,
I think every Greek home has to have a tray of these,
I eat mine by lifting layer at a time and since I put Nuts ever 4 sheets of Phyllo I get Pistachios each time,
Please read the tags for the ingredients.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Macro Monday's seeing double theme.
M42 macro lens. Extension tube. f16. This image is all about the backdrop.
I've played with oil, water and detergent before and loved the results. One day I was looking for just one more special ingredient to make things more interesting for myself...so while wandering through my kitchen cupboards, I came across a small bottle of light corn syrup. I just love trying new things, so with a few drops of the sticky substance, new worlds appeared. I do love the slightly etched terrain of the red and grey bubbles.
A bottle of corn syrup has been sitting on my kitchen counter for two months, but I repeatedly forgot to try the frozen bubble trick until this week. The stills and videos are online. The weather has to be cold for this to work - in the -10°C to -25°C range - and the air has to be calm or the bubbles will pop. You mix up a concoction and use a straw to blow bubbles onto a convenient surface; the ones that don't pop will slowly freeze, and the ice crystal formations are unique and infinitely variable.
Here's the formula I used: mix 35 ml of corn syrup with 200 ml warm water, add 35 ml dish soap and 2 T sugar. Stir. Cool in the freezer for a few minutes. The hardest part is learning to blow a bubble using a plastic straw. I made four 1-inch lengthwise cuts in one end, then splayed them back. This will usually allow the straw to pick up some of the viscous liquid, although it takes practice. Small bubbles are easier to blow, but larger bubbles are more fun.
After you do get a bubble to form, and while the freezing process is underway, you have a minute or two to play, so a little advance planning is required. Direct sun shining on the bubble is best. Backlighting is generally the most colourful and interesting. But then what? Most versions of this that I've seen include the entire bubble, and although beautiful, they all tend to look similar. But what if I used a tripod and macro lens stopped down a ridiculous amount and focused very closely? An attempt to abstract the frost crystals on the bubble's thin surface... light refracting from thousands of miniscule icy planes... the bubble's curvature eventually pushing the edges of my frame out of focus... why not?
The idea for a pano crop came later, based on where the interesting (and in focus) detail lay within my original framing. This is the bottom portion of the bubble; I've cropped out the base, where it sat on the flat railing of my front porch. The pinpoint coloured dots are not digital noise, but rather, tiny flashes of prismatic light from the ice crystals. Under normal circumstances I would seldom shoot at f/36, because loss of sharpness can be extreme at these tiny apertures. However, standing on my front porch in my winter parka and slippers at dawn in -20 temperatures while blowing bubbles can hardly be considered normal.
This bubble was about three and a half inches in diameter.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
CSXT 6502 and 6062 are working the D703 on this day. Having just finished up switching out the Pepsi Yard in town, they are seen here passing through town on their way back to Rockwood, PA.
The practice image is in the comments. I like the brightness and the reflections here, but I like the strong side-light, the warmth, and the sun-stars in my first effort.
Big props to milwe70 for the heads up on this rare bird heading west out of Emporia, KS this afternoon. I could be wrong, but I believe this leader is something they refer to as an "EMD." This is at Ellinor, where the La Junta Sub branches off from the Emporia Sub. For the 13 miles from Emporia to Ellinor, the Transcon is a triple track mainline, that can be awfully busy at times.
Karo Corn Syrup was invented in 1902 and was once favored down South for many other things besides candy-making, like drizzling over a hot split biscuit or stack of buttermilk pancakes in lieu of the maple syrup we mostly see today.
With a trainload of the stuff that makes Mexican soda so good, FXE 4600 peeks through a gap in the tree tunnel as it mounts the rolling hills of central Texas.
G RCIEAP6 05A (Corn Syrup- Rock Island, IL to Eagle Pass, TX)
FXE ES44AC #4600
BNSF ES44C4 #6932
(DPU) BNSF SD70ACe #9303
Deanville, TX
August 10th, 2019
we were bored so we made some pancakes and staked them ontop of another and we got this great thing
tell me what you think
help me get this on explore!
*this will soon be in santa barbara news press*
I found the idea to make rainbows in a jar on Pinterest. It was very easy to do with my daughter. I made 1 cup of each layer and divided it amongst the jars. The layers are as follows from the bottom to the top - cornsyrup, blue hand soap, water, oil, rubbing alcohol.
I applied a Lightroom template to this called Holga my Dear and tweaked the colors just a bit.
Apparently when I am taking pictures the way that I contort myself sometimes makes it appear that I am having a heart attack. Or so it seems because someone saw me outside leaning over and was concerned he wanted to double check that I didn't need help. He told me he was about to call an ambulance. hahaha. Thank you concerned citizen.
Happy Fence Friday to you!
The distributed power on this heavy corn syrup train shove across central New Mexico on their way to Mexico.
G RCIELP6 03A (Corn Syrup Loads- Rock Island, IL [IAIS] to El Paso, TX [FXE])
BNSF ES44AC #6005
BNSF ES44AC #6412
(DPU) BNSF ES44C4 #8210
(DPU) BNSF ET44C4 #3828
Fort Sumner, NM
June 7th, 2020
There are some things on this planet that should not exist
Photographed at Hy-Vee grocery store
Lakeville Minnesota
Friday April 22nd 2022
FXE 4600 roars southward through the small Texas town of Dime Box as it makes its way south.
G RCIEAP6 05A (Corn Syrup- Rock Island, IL to Eagle Pass, TX)
FXE ES44AC #4600
BNSF ES44C4 #6932
(DPU) BNSF SD70ACe #9303
Dime Box, TX
August 10th, 2019
FXE 4600 brings its Mexico-bound sweetener into the town of Giddings on UP's subdivision of the same name.
G RCIEAP6 05A (Corn Syrup- Rock Island, IL to Eagle Pass, TX)
FXE ES44AC #4600
BNSF ES44C4 #6932
(DPU) BNSF SD70ACe #9303
Giddings, TX
August 10th, 2019
ODC-Chemistry/Chemical
Pure Maple Syrup is a wonderful product. Make sure if you buy this product, it either says Pure or 100% organic on the label, otherwise you could be buying something with high fructose cornsyrup in it!
www.caryinstitute.org/news-insights/feature/learn-about-s...
Taken in the afternoon of April 29th, 2006, this vintage McDonald's Hotcake Syrup container was found lying next to the curb near the corner of McMechen and Park Ave. in Bolton Hill, directly outside the "Four Star Video."
At the time I was a second semester junior at MICA, and was taking photos for my final project in a class entitled "Urban Theory." For my final I had decided to closely investigate bodegas in Baltimore using a Flanuer method of observation involving "listening."
To conduct my urban listenings I choose to find select bodegas and spend about an hour wandering a roughly one block radius around the specific site with a camera and plastic bag. As I meandered about, I would photo-document not only what I witnessed in terms of passerbys, but more explicitly the trash and refuse I found surrounding the particular Bodega. When I came across found items, I would photograph them and then if appropriate, collect them to keep as physical evidence.
My main goal was to find litter that related specifically to the chosen Bodega in such a way that I could trace what I found outside directly back to the store by way of finding the actual product for sale inside.
On the particular day this photo was taken I was focusing on the Park Avenue Pharmacy in Bolton Hill. I remember this Hotcake Syrup container being the coolest thing I found that day. A perfect early 90's design artifact, I recall being completely surprised to find something that was clearly dated from 1992. Obviously the syrup had not been sitting out on the street for the past 14 years, but I was amazed that given how frequently McDonald's updates it's brand that this particular item had escaped a redesign of its label.
I was particularly excited because the era of McDonald's branding this design comes from harkens back to my early childhood, when going to McDonald's and collecting Happy Meals toys was an extreme priority. Even as a 6-year-old, I specifically remember the tans, browns, golds and oranges of the late 80's inspired color palette that survived in McDonald's design into the early 90's. Discovering this syrup container on the street definitely took me back to my childhood, and now I have a burning desire to run to the nearest McDonald's during breakfast hours with the silly hope that they are somehow still giving out these dated syrup containers with McDonald's Hotcakes in 2009...
BNSF 9303 shoves corn syrup loads towards Mexico under the eye of the water tower in the namesake of UP's Giddings Subdivision.
G RCIEAP6 05A (Corn Syrup- Rock Island, IL to Eagle Pass, TX)
FXE ES44AC #4600
BNSF ES44C4 #6932
(DPU) BNSF SD70ACe #9303
Giddings, TX
August 10th, 2019
I recently bought a book on macro photography called Creative Close-Ups: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques by Harold Davis, and it's got me trying to do some different things with a macro lens. I've seen some beautiful work on Flickr featuring drops that are reflecting gorgeous color, and I hope to at least try and get similar results. I've got a long way to go, but this is fun stuff to play with. For this image I wanted thick water, which is to say water with higher viscosity, so I could get a bigger drop, and my wife mixed up some water and corn syrup which she dripped with an eye dropper tool down onto the branch. I want to try some Knox gelatin, in the future, which is supposed to be good for that effect. I used my 60mm macro lens with one 36mm extension tube, and for my next attempt, I'm going to add more extension tubes.
I lit this with a YN560-II in a 24 inch soft box camera right, but it was so far away from the subject it didn't have much effect, so I also hand held a YN560 in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box camera left and very close to the subject. The color in the drop came from a piece of red fabric that my wife held. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I have an album of drops and bubbles images (called creatively enough) Drops/Bubbles that has different kind of drops and bubble pictures in it, if you like that kind of thing. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157625432239555/