Enamelled-back Spider (Araneidae Plebs bradleyi) female

For Macro Mondays - Phobia

Many people, my wife and children included suffer from Arachnophobia.

This one has a body length of around around 15 mm (6/10 of an inch)

Happy Macro Monday!

Meravigliosa creatura - Gianna Nannini

Se que no es muy nítida la imagen, pero el esmalte es muy pequeño y la foto sólo es un fragmento. Esta pequeña obra la realicé hace mucho tiempo y le tengo un cariño especial. El dibujo surgió de un fragmento de aguadas de acuarela que sugerían una pequeña forma femenina, el color rojo de la acuarela sugirió el fuego y así nació esta pequeña figura que formará parte de una futura exposición.

Elythranthera brunonis is a perennial herb, 150-300 mm high with hairy leaf and flowering stem. The leaf is basal, an elongate oval shape and 20-80 long x 4-10 mm wide. There are 1-4 flowers 20-35 mm in diameter. The petals and lateral sepals are purple to mauve and glossy on the upper surface and white with purple or maroon spots on the lower surface. The labellum is white and the outer third folds up and back. Grows in lateritic and sandy soils.

- a gift from Clare (but not made by her) who brought it back from a trip downtown to Glasgow with Ray when I stayed behind in her flat for a small siesta (I'm quite expert at such!)

posting for :

Macro Mondays: ring

I have photographed the ring on one of my scarves....

Enamel Teapot

Poland, Kraków -2015

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler%27s_Enamel_Factory

available here: www.nieves.ch/store/store.html

Part of a necklace bought in Paris, in a very small shop, near Sacre Coeur many years ago. The only trinkets I normally buy on holiday is cheapish jewellery.

Macro Mondays theme - trinket. Cropped to fit the size.

2018 one photo each day

Schnormeier Gardens

nail varnished, geometric figures, solid wood and LED lights

Mostly motor based ones...how did that Scotch one top left get on there....

buxted, east sussex, england

A very attractive font on this one...

Flickr Lounge weekly theme - Kitchen accessories.

2017 one photo each day

The weather was horrible the day after Christmas - cold and foggy - so I amused myself by picking up my camera. The buttons are faux guilloché enamel, but I thought they were pretty. They were made in the 1930s. The pocket-watch-shaped trinket box is from the 1950s, the postcards from the 1910s and the piece of linen underneath everything is present day. Nope, as hard as I try I can't make any connection between them. They just ended up together in front of me - briefly - on a dark December day. :)

Taken with Lensbaby Velvet 56.

I'm afraid I'm not feeling hugely inspired at the moment, so here's another button from my collection. It dates from the late 19th Century and it's quite large at 1½" across. The button is leaning against a (barely visible) vintage Sylko cotton reel and I added in a few of my trusty Hydrangea flowers for good measure.

Canon EOS 6D - f/13 - 1/5 sec - 100mm - ISO 200

Just rinsed these off in the creek.

Photo: Sony NEX-5N + Micro-Nikkor-P Auto 55mm, f3.5

A series of pictures showing some of these iconic signs of an earlier age.Many copies are obtainable, mostly "aged" with a slightly damaged and rusted appearance, but originals like the ones in this series are increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.

Some show ads for cigarettes, etc...these would certainly be banned today.

Macro Monday Jewelry

I made this copper enameled pin one summer when my parents let me take an art class at a local high school. I think I was about 12. I loved the class and everything we did in it. After I finished the 4 copper enameled projects, I never made another piece. Still one of my favorite pieces of jewelry!!!

Coming to the end of this series now...a couple more to go. They have been well received by my contacts, but not so by the general Flickr audience...which to be honest, is a pale shadow of what it once was. Still...we persevere.

Another take on the Jewellery MM theme...

Enamel

enamel.

Have had this for years...

121 pictures in 2021/16 Clasp

"Lasts and Satisfies "...a pretty good recommendation.

Ohh Matron!

Macro Mondays, 18 March 2024 - Iron

Detail of the edge of the lid of an enamelled cast iron Le Creuset casserole.

for MACRO MONDAYS Chip(s) theme

Marketplace: tinyurl.com/FDEnamelCook

Main-store: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fancy%20Decor/157/111/23

I do love the sheer vibrancy and depth of colour that you get with vintage enamelware - there's nothing else quite like it. Simple vanilla cupcakes topped with chocolate icing are a delicious complement to a nice pot of coffee.

In the V&A Museum. The jug was made in Stourbridge, England, by W.H.B. & J. Richardson, in 1848.

There were so many of these around the place where we were staying! Plebs bradleyi

A large example advertising a household brand name.

BR Eastern region dark blue enamel Station sign at Gidea Park. Sep'82. Kodachrome film.

"Will not affect your throat...."

This one has certainly spent it's life indoors...not much damage, or weathering...a bullet hole, perhaps...

An enameled daisy placed on a mirror for a symmetry challenge.

Detail of a 60's enamel tray. i thought the design would be fun to work in hand embroidery. feel free to use the pics for your own inspiration.

3023c 2017 10 19 001 file

"A Migratory Experiment"

..Enamel Steel, Stone..

Artist: Christie Hackler

Exhibit "Kindred"

by Fringe, Women Artists

of Oklahoma viewed at

The Leslie Powell Foundation

Gallery, Lawton, OK

I've been away at a metal smithing workshop taught by Kat Cole learning to enamel on steel and copper surfaces. Here are a couple of my uncleaned, unfinished pieces that will soon become brooches/pendants.

They are on top of a photo taken from my rainy windshield driving to the class.