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Tiny LED flashlight. Handy little thing with bendable (legs) to attach to most anything. And a hook to attach to a key chain or the like. Looks like a bug.
The business end of a mini-flashlight. Turned on but the batteries are weak. It's standing upright.
For Macro Mondays
This week's theme: Radiant
Today I had great fun in the forest, as you can see. This is a single shot. I used flashlight and - of course - I was zooming my lens by hand whilst taking the picture.
This abandoned building on an abandoned farm was a photographic studio for the farm woman. On a pitch black night, I took my camera and a flash light to make an attempt of created a flashlight photograph. Not completely successful, but a lot of fun and somewhat interesting.
Took out the batteries and backlit the led end, I liked the reflections up the sides of the barrel.
Happy Macro Monday !
The flashlight, we explained to the campers
Is so captivating because it brings light
To dark places
Combining the positive
And negative within, you can
Bring enlightenment to the world
One circle of clarity
At a time, illuminate your
Path, or that of another
Step by
Step
Trying the "paint-with-flashlight" technique for the long exposure challenge this week. Not original, but fun anyway. 30 second exposure.
0/10 for safety but this guy has to be given 10/10 for innovation. He's got his sunhat on for shade, his cycling helmet for protection and topped off with the flashlight for night riding.
If you backed up a few feet and looked the other way from yesterday's post of the shed, you'd see this: the main house at the abandoned ranch. Too bad it wasn't windy enough to get that plastic a'flutterin'. 300-seconds of full moon with some warm white outside in the shadows and red from inside with the Protomachines flashlight. Yes, gross in there, another Casa de Hanta in a long line of Casa's de Hanta.
This flashlight + Milky Way shot from Sunday is kind of a gimmick, but I'm unapologetic about it here because that leaning tree is interesting.
Bonus photobomb by a wandering firefly.
Details: 10-sec exposure @ ISO3200, f1.8 w/ a Canon R5; July 11, 2021, Bull Creek WMA, Osceola Cty, Florida
So when I was doing this stacking session there was, somehow in the back of my mind, the idea of (hopefully) producing a really fancy monochrome version of this 'flowerful happening'.
I will follow up with color photos of this and/or other stacks, I first need to develop, because it's just too beautiful not to.
It turned out to be a bit of a challenge, because the blossom and cactus body / stem almost demaned a different development; when I got the flower right, the cactus was bland and fading, when I developed for the cactus, the details and shadows or highlights of the intricate flower would get lost.
Also, this is a beam of natural light from the side (I managed to engineer with curtains) that illuminates the flower and half of the cactus, but not much else. So it's fair to say that there was quite a bit of tweaking involved!
For macro standards, this is a rather large scene (the flower is almost 10cm in diameter), so I used the focus of the lens instead of my rail, which is as precise as anything else cause the 55mm Micro-NIKKOR is geared wonderfully.
I'd bet, at least in principle, this composition would look interesting in IR as well, cause I noticed that most cacti and sukkulents reflect infrared light strongly, so they get very bright and radiant.
This is also kind of a now-or-never situation, because the flower lasts for only a day or so, then the show is over. Once open, it stays open until it's withered away. Very ephemeral and precious. When it's about time, I regularly check my plants in order to not miss it. Should a flower open at night, it's always a very special atmosphere to see this almost wasteful beauty in the beam of a flashlight, surrounded by darkness, like a secret. It has a lovely fragrance too. During the day, insects are usually all over them, but that's what they are for, right?
(Also, please forgive me, I don't live in the desert or naturally hot and dry climate, so flowering cacti are still pretty sweet for me..)
Anyway, I hope you like it and that the fleeting beauty of this delicate flower comes across a little bit. Have a nice weekend..
Nikon D7200 (APS-C crop sensor)
Micro-NIKKOR 55mm f/2.8 AI-S
(thus ~82mm full frame equivalent)
ISO100, 55mm, f/8, 0,8sec
tripod, focus stacked (10 photos)
I fell off the pear into the water, held my cam under water and sprained my feet, and then, with blood on my leg and a all wet Nikon, i took this picture. It was worth all that if you ask me. What do you think? Have you ever bled for a good shot?
Dames Cave is a 1.2 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near Brooksville, Florida that features a cave and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, nature trips, and birding and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
The Dames Cave area is located in the Citrus Tract portion of the Withlacoochee State Forest in Citrus County, Florida and are found on a western portion of the Brooksville Ridge physiographic region. This landscape is dominated by karst landforms including uvalas, dolines, solution valleys, and caves. Geologically, the caves are among the oldest in Florida.
The entrance trail to the Dames Caves is located off S Lecanto Hwy. Quite possibly there will be several cars already parked there, as these will be the only indicators that one of Florida's most unique and oldest cave systems is just a short jaunt off of this straight and narrow farm road. Parking is free, but is at your own risk, mainly because there are no designated parking spots. A short half-mile trail leads off into the Withlacoochee State Forest.
Once again, no trails are marked, but heading directly east will bring you to the opening of one of the most popular caves. Surrounded by several concrete posts and heavy gauge wire, the opening to Vandal Cave appears before your eyes. One of the best spot for pictures, this cave opening is actually an ancient roof collapse. Part of the roof is still connected and creates a land bridge that can be easily walked across by daring individuals. A small side cave allows access into the inner cave system. Once inside you can see why it is called Vandal Cave. Graffiti and other damage can be seen throughout, explaining why this cave system is so hard to find. Other smaller caves branch off from this Vandal Cave and range in a variety of difficulties of exploration from simple head ducking and flashlight exploring to belly-slinking and crawling through tight spots in the mud.
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abandoned farmhouse far out along the east avenues of the antelope valley in california's mojave desert.
2min exposure under full moon, 10x 2min exposures stacked for star trails. light painting with protomachines LED flashlight. nikon D7000 + nikkor 10-24mm.
Early sixties Chrysler Newport convertible, one more space-wreck, crash landed at Big M Auto Salvage in February 2020. A minute-thirty-four in total darkness, with purple and red from outside and warm white diffused inside for ambiance. Protomachine flashlight, hand-held, single frame.