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#MacroMonday
#motionblur
Yes. Another fidget spinner. And another whirlgig? Well, not quite. It's a rotating spintop-like thingy that isn't a real spintop which I've placed onto a rotating fidget spinner. So what is this spintop that isn't a spintop? It's a transparent part of my moon globe which I don't use on the moon globe, because I use the moon globe as a decorative lamp hanging from the ceiling. That's where a moon belongs, doesn't it? When I disassembled the moon globe to turn it into a lamp I noticed that the small piece at the bottom (and does an orb have a bottom?) that connects the globe with its stand and makes the globe spin around its axis actually makes a perfect spintop. I've always wanted to use this thingy – how about "moonspin"? – for an MM theme. But how should I make the motion visible with an item that is transparent and runs so smoothly that you can hardly see any motion? I used my makeshift colour filters for some colourful accents and then I put the moonspin onto the non-rotating centre part of the rainbow coloured fidget spinner (and the fidget spinner also added some extra mortion blur). I got the best result when I waited until the moonspin got slower and began to wobble – just before it stopped to rotate.
This was actually only a test shot, but I didn't have much time to do more this weekend (or Monday), so I decided to stick to it, because while it's not exactly an original idea for the theme, I like the outcome. What I also like is how well the IBIS of my camera works, because this, again, is a handheld image. I didn't use an ND filter, because I've taken the capture last evening when it was already dark outside. Since it was only a testshot I also didn't bother to place the fidget spinner and the moonspin on / against a "proper" background, but just grabbed the black velvet adhesive foil I'd bought recently to repair the palm rest of my keyboard, propped it against a vase and put the spinning thingies in front of it. Which is the reason this moonspin rotates in Fuzziverse, because the velvet foil, while nice to the touch (as it should be), is fuzzy. Pleasantly fuzzy and soft for my hands, fuzziverse fuzzy in a macro image. Processed, as usual, in DXO PhotoLab 4, then I went into Luminar AI to enhance the details and saturation, and finally into Analog Efex – and the white vignette actually is an accident, but I think it added more depth to the image than a totally black background would have. I also like how the vignette highlighted some of the velvety fluff which added a nice starry look :)
The "moonspin" is 4,5 cm / 1,77 inches in diameter, so I had to crop the image quite considerably (and I really didn't like to do that this time, because I think the image looks nicer with more negative space, but it's "To be in MMs or not to be in MMs", isn't it?), so the width here is exactly 3 inches.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a nice and safe week ahead!
Bungee-Jumping. Oder einfach nur auf einer Sonnenlichtwelle surfen?
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This little adventurous branch hung off just a bit and fidgeted in the wind until I finally managed to catch it vertically. It comes from an Irish juniper, where it may have become too dark or too narrow. Or both.
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Dieser kleine abenteuerlustige Zweig hing einfach mal so ein bisschen ab und zappelte ganz schön im Wind, bis ich es dann endlich geschafft hatte ihn senkrecht einzufangen. Er stammt von einem Irischen Wacholder, wo es ihm vielleicht zu dunkel oder zu eng geworden war. Oder beides.
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#CrazyTuesday / #minimalism
HMM 😊😊😍
HMAM 😊😊😍
The balls measure 1/2", 1/4" & 1/8" respectively.
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
It's exactly a year today when we had to start working from home due to the impending impact of COVID. It's quite fitting that this week's theme is "Motion Blur" The past year has been a blur. We could however still focus on the good things. HMM!
A precious handmade fidget spinner made by a Finnish artist we met at am exhibition. He creates artistic items with his hands from old watches, metallic parts etc.
Hope you enjoy it.
Happy MM!!
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Backdrop & Pose: Amitie - There Is No Place @ Uber
Jeans: Amias - Vanda Jeans @ Anthem
Breath & Cold Nose: OMY - Frosty Fidget & Typers@ The Fifty
Earmuffs: C'est La Vie
Coat: Gabriel
Top: Pixicat
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Fidget spinner is in principle indicated for relaxing, decreasing stress, and helping children with autism, or with difficulty concentrating like those with ADHD. Ironically, its use has been suspended in many schools for distracting children from their schoolwork.
For Macro Mondays
Theme: Relaxation
Fidget Spinner in Bewegung
Danke für Euren Besuch, über einen Kommentar und Stern freue ich mich.
Fidget Spinner in motion
Thank you for your visit, I am looking forward to a comment and a star.
Tourneur Fidget en mouvement
Merci de votre visite, j'attends avec impatience un commentaire et une étoile.
Fidget Spinner en movimiento
Gracias por su visita, estoy deseando recibir un comentario y una estrella.
Fidget Spinner em movimento
Obrigado pela sua visita, estou ansioso para receber um comentário e uma estrela.
Spinner fidget in movimento
Vi ringrazio per la vostra visita, attendo con ansia un commento e una stella.
Vergeet Spinner in beweging
Dank u voor uw bezoek, ik kijk uit naar een opmerking en een ster.
I was checking out at Walgreens yesterday and saw these little "Fidget Spinners". Spinning them is supposed to be relaxing (or something like that).
Taken for the “Macro Mondays” theme “Relaxation”.
I think most people must know what a Fidget Spinner is by now. They seem to be everywhere these days. Just in case, I found this blurb online: "Fidget spinners are toys initially created to relieve stress. This toy helps to calm nerves and helps you to relax; it also helps to ease anxiety. " It was a very stressful photoshoot. :)
HMM
A handmade fidget spinner by a Finnish artist we met in a fair in Malmö.
My sons little treasure and also perfectly symmetrical
Two small pieces of plastic, and a divide, part of a fidget toy, at 25x magnification, Omax microscope.
"smile on saturday"
"round shapes only"
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
Lasts three months and produces a good-sized basket of dog fleece.
One of the models doesn't know I'm taking a picture.
Happy Halloween!
The same Mabel Orchard Orbweaver, Leucauge argyrobapta, building a pretty chaotic 3D web with some orb-like elements. Tighter than 1:1, no crop, single exposure, f/4.
Happy Arachtober 30!
10-30-2022; 21:00 CDT; Velvia+
A macro view of a fidget spinner in motion. The frame represents a span of 2¼ - inches across.
Techical info:
The scene was illuminated by an LED cube @ 8-o'clock, an overhead LED at 2-o'clock, and a red LED flashlight handheld camera left.
Lens: Helios 44M-4 58mm f/2.0 with 20mm extension tube attached
RVN Store - Resting Bish Face Animations Fidget - Unisex
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LIVIA::Skelly Earrings
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She’s in charge of the dark matter
calls the shots from the back room
light bulb swinging above her desk
I hear her typing late at night
the quiet genius that stays behind.
now and then she pokes her beak
through the trapdoor of my day
while I fidget, sip weak coffee
she listens to stories in the room
collects novel faces, tiny voices
chatters voicemails in my dreams.
when we meet a friendly stranger
and I’m tangled or feeling coy
I toss her the attic key and say
sure, let’s see what you’ve got.
now she wants to stay out and
I’m like, what now jitterbug?
they can’t see too much of you.
but after a pisco sour too many
she slinks back out the small door
of my mouth. she’s not so sly.
as we glide into bed that night
I watch her skinny belly rise
softly stroke her flaky beak
slur, shh that’s right stay close
you can keep that key, for now.
Leah Larwood - The PoetrySociety
We got only four inches of snow for which I'm grateful.
Everyone has food, water and a degree of contentment. Fidget is concerned that I shoveled snow off the highly secret spot where she buried her new bone yesterday.
Fidget hears something moving down in the ravine.
We're not being aggressive, but we're not kidding around, either.
Fidget spinner is in principle indicated for relaxing, decreasing stress, and helping children with autism, or with difficulty concentrating like those with ADHD. Ironically, its use has been suspended in many schools for distracting children from their schoolwork.
This set of three photos of Otis are him fidgeting while he waits for lunch. That's my jacket draped over the back of the tall kitchen chair.
I like the way his head is framed by shadow.
I’d parked myself on the icy jetty for sunset shots of Mount Rundle but I’m a fidget so I wandered off and a group of photographers nabbed the prime spot. I could have elbowed my way in but the jetty wobbled a lot and they daringly had their tripods balanced on the thin ice. And their gear looked pretty expensive 😊 If you’re on Flickr I’d love to see your images, and to know what kind of cameras those are. Anyone?
Grandson's new fidget spinner. Lighting was achieved by pushing an led light through a colour cube (new) to give the purple yellow split light.
As I walked along the trail. we spotted each other, almost simultaneously I think. He began to fidget almost immediately and I knew he was going to fly. With a distance of 120 yards or so, and not the best of backgrounds I thought perhaps it would be for not. I think it came out pretty good all things considered.
For my initial fidget spinner study, I went with natural light and no flash and the result can be seen in the first comment. It was OK, but I wanted to see a bit more of the spinner so I included a flash. I placed the little fidget spinner that measures 2 5/8 inches across on a mirror with a black throw blanket for a backdrop. On-camera Nikon SB900 flash pointed at a white screen off camera right provided nice supplemental bounce lighting in addition to natural light. The exposure, 1/2 second, was set to get a decent amount of blur. The hardest part was spinning the thing and taking my finger off without it moving/sliding so I could keep focus on the insignia. By adding the flash, I was able to get a snapshot of the spinner, a cool reflection in the mirror AND the spinner motion. This worked for me and I was happy with the way it turned out.
Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro
Nikon SB 900 Flash w/Natural Sunlight
Macro Mondays Theme - Motion Blur
A macro view of a Pop It Topper bubble fidget toy. The frame represents a span of 2⅛ - inches across.
Strobist/technical info:
The scene is a 4-image focus stack composite. It was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights and a single steady LED cube. The SB900s were placed CL/CR and fired in Manual mode @ 1/128 power through 24" gridded soft boxes and triggered by PocketWizard Plus Xs. The LED cube was placed at 11-o'clock.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D(AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro) with a 12mm extension tube attached.
Macro Mondays - Relaxation
These little spinning toys are meant to relax the mind. They came up here only a few months ago as a must-have among schoolchildren.
Adrienne sipped her drink, fidgeting with the hem of her borrowed top. Her eyes stayed fixed on Kayla, trying to read beneath her calm exterior.
Kayla didn’t answer right away. She lowered herself onto the sofa beside her, wine glass resting in her hands. Her gaze drifted—unfocused, burdened—before she spoke.
“When I said we were sent to find others like us,” she murmured, “I meant it. We needed help, urgently. That was just one part of the mission. But my team…” Her voice caught, and she drew in a breath. “They didn’t survive. Finding you… that was luck. Nothing else.”
Adrienne stiffened. The calm confidence Kayla usually carried had cracked, if only slightly—
Kayla stared into her glass but didn’t drink. “In my time, the reptilians began to rule openly. They didn’t bother to hide anymore. They fed on humanity—drained us like cattle. We fought back with everything we had. Fusion weapons. Desperation. We won… if you want to call it that.”
She sat silently then finally looked up, eyes dark. Her voice faltered… “The cost was everything. Cities reduced to ash. Most of the human race gone in a blink. The cataclysm we created was so massive that the earth’s crust shifted. The few of us left alive crawled into the earth to escape what we’d done.
Yet some reptilians survived. They too retreated underground to their subterranean cities.
Several million years have wiped everything I knew away. The human race had to start over yet again.
Adrienne felt a chill settle under her skin as Kayla recounted the last days of her civilization. This didn’t sound rehearsed. It sounded like someone trying to speak through a survivor’s guilt.
“It’s happened before,” Kayla said. “Five times. This world is on the cusp of it happening again.
Every few millennia, the reptilians rebuild their numbers. Their life span is 1,517 years—precise, calculated. Before one generation dies, a new one is bred and raised in secret, ready to take their place.”
Adrienne took a long drink of her wine, her eyes never leaving Kayla.
“By our estimates,” Kayla continued, “they’ve just laid their eggs. Billions of them. Each female can produce up to thirty eggs. They do it in one place… one big nest.
Then she turned to face Adrienne. Her voice, for the first time, trembled slightly.
This civilization won’t survive another cycle. That’s why I’m here. To stop the cycle.
before it begins again.”
She paused. “I can’t do it alone. I need your help to find the nest—and destroy it. Before they hatch.”
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"Midnight and the moon is out
Careful you might hurt yourself
Pleasure leads to pain
To me they’re both the same
Sweat dripping down to the floor
Bite marks like an animal
You might be insane
But maybe we’re the same
Tonight
You came here
‘Cause you know what I need
And no-one likes to be alone..."
Miley Cyrus