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This is for Ilse's coffee challenge - ashamed to say there were no beans in the house and we pulled out our coffee trees some years ago, so here is some instant coffee on a blue plate with a magic flying saucers, er I mean cup. Planet coffee for those of you who have never been there, it is very high. Look at Ilse's post and the other links. Want to join? Fabulous
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For those of you who want to know how to do this, really simple. First I got the jar of instant coffee, then the blue enamel plate, then made a funnel out of baking paper and dropped the coffee onto the plate. Put my macro on and shot away. Of the 20 shots decided which one I liked best. Found another picture with a cup on it. Layered it onto the coffee granule shot and positioned it to suit me. Then took the erasor and worked on the difference between the two layers (where there is a line between the layers) - soft-edged brush with a diameter of around 200 px, opacity at 100%. Works a treat. Then adjust the contrast of the image now. FLatten image. Et voila coffee spaceship in the blue sky with flying coffee grounds
Glass mugs are great for this sort of thing!! I tried various different photos with teabags and coffee granules. I was hoping to get a nice one of the teapot's spout with a drip, but my efforts on that front weren't very successful. So this is a photo taken from a slightly low perspective, looking up through the side of a glass mug at coffee granules on the surface, slowly dissolving and sinking into the boiling water.
A teaspoon of garlic granules for coughs, colds and vampires!
Garlic granules and Whitby (Dracula) fridge magnet. Taken for Macro Mondays theme: Onion Family.
A pretty little fungus on well rotted dung. I have checked out all the usual suspects but it's not quite right, mainly due to spore size and shape. It may be a Coprinopsis or Coprinellus or whatever but either way I can't find the perfect match in any of my books or on the 'net.
Best candidate so far is Parasola misera but it seems to lack the granules on the cap. I am at least now fairly sure it is a Parasola.
Latest thought from UK Fungi is Coprinus cordisporus - could be.....
When you are looking at art, your appreciation of the image you see is governed by the way your brain is wired. I think I want a brain like Gary's. He saw lithe naked female buttocks. Amongst the grains of light and dark sand granules I saw something more like the Spirit of Ecstasy (with its wings amputated). But that's the great thing about looking at sand patterns on the beach. What you see is unique to you, unless it is obviously like a frog or a Sputnik, don't you think? Fascadale beach yields such fun!
I dropped coffee granules into a cup of boiling water. i thought that I might get a photo showing steam rising as well as coffee granules falling, but the water didn't stay hot for quite long enough, so its back to the drawing board.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Rijnhaven, Terraforming, Ground layering, Clay granules (uncut)
In the previous Rijnhaven redevelopment picture, I showed ground consolidation, the last phase of creating new land. What is shown here is the preparation of the new land to successfully grow plants (a park, in this case) by adding a layer of clay granules.
In the BG right, with its waterslide-like superstructure, is the Fenix 2 veem, which is being developed into the Landverhuizers (Emigration) museum.
This is number 21 of the Rijnhaven - the redevelopment album and 301 of Zwart/Wit.
The biggest customer the C&NW had in Wausau was the 3M roofing granule plant, located on the near west side perpendicular to Thomas St.
The plant was reached via a spur that split from the "main" (once part of the Green Bay-Merrillan secondary main) near Stewart Avenue.
Once the crew dropped inbound cars (mostly empty two-bay covered hoppers), they'd gather the outbound loads and shove west back to Stewart Avenue.
For years, one of the C&NW's FM switchers was assigned to Wausau's local jobs. While they were rated at 1,200 horsepower, they were excellent pullers. They were replaced with Geeps (including the "Katy Baldwins") after 1976. In the late 1980s, C&NW's ex-Conrail GP40s started showing up in Wausau with some regularity, providing plenty of horse power to handle the heavy 3M loadings.
Freshly ground coffee in a filter, waiting to be brewed.
The beans I used are a lighter roast and much less oily than what I normally buy, but still quite aromatic. Still, the end result was enjoyable, if not as bold as what I'm used to.
Négombo (Sri Lanka) - La plage située proximité de l’entrée du chenal qui mène au port de pêche de Négombo, était une véritable poissonnerie à ciel ouvert. De nombreuses petites embarcations venaient déposer le produit de leur pêche. Mais le 20 mai 2021, c’est la catastrophe écologique. Le navire, le MV X-Press Pearl, prend feu en face de la plage. Il transportait 1 486 conteneurs. Quatre-vingt-un d’entre eux étaient chargés de marchandises dangereuses, dont 25 tonnes d’acide nitrique. Parmi les marchandises figuraient également 78 tonnes de granulés de polyéthylène destiné à l’industrie de l’emballage. Cette catastrophe environnementale dont la partie la plus visible était la présence de billes de plastique, a souillé 80 kilomètres de littoral.
Cette photo ci-dessus a été prise en 2014, bien avant la catastrophe écologique. Aujourd’hui encore, il est difficile de savoir sir cette pollution a toujours des conséquence sur la santé publique ?
Before the pollution
Negombo (Sri Lanka) - The beach located near the entrance to the channel leading to the fishing port of Negombo was a real open-air fish market. Many small boats came to deposit the product of their fishing. But on May 20, 2021, there was an ecological disaster. The ship, the MV X-Press Pearl, caught fire in front of the beach. It was carrying 1,486 containers. Eighty-one of them were loaded with dangerous goods, including 25 tons of nitric acid. Among the goods were also 78 tons of polyethylene granules intended for the packaging industry. This environmental disaster polluted 80 kilometers of coastline, the most visible part of which was the presence of plastic beads.
This photo above was taken in 2014, well before the ecological disaster. Even today, it is difficult to know if this pollution still has consequences on public health?
#srilanka #negombo #fishermen #nikon #people #ecology #environnement
22 settembre 2021, si entra nel periodo autunnale, le piante con l'accorciarsi delle ore di sole e le temperature che si abbassano richiamano verso le radice tutti i granuli di clorofilla per la sopravvivenza invernale. Questo effetto chiamato "Foliage" causa la perdita dei pigmenti delle foglie che mutano in molti colori dai toni caldi e si staccano dalla pianta.
September 22, 2021, we enter the autumn period, the plants with the shortening of the hours of sunshine and the lower temperatures recall all the granules of chlorophyll towards the roots for winter survival. This effect called "Foliage" causes the loss of the pigments of the leaves which change into many warm-toned colors and detach from the plant.
In antichità era la rocca di Savignano Lungoreno, antico maniero appartenuto alla Gran Contessa Matilde di Canossa e distrutto nel 1293. Molti secoli dopo, su quello spuntone di roccia che domina il comune di Grizzana Morandi, nel bolognese, il Conte Cesare Mattei decise di costruire quella che sarebbe diventata la futura Rocchetta Mattei, un luogo straordinario destinato a restare unico e inimitato.
La prima pietra fu posata il 5 novembre del 1850; solo nove anni più tardi il Conte, tra i fondatori della Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna nonché deputato al Parlamento di Roma, poté finalmente trovare dimora in quello che si mostrò subito in tutta la sua eccezionalità: un castello dalle forme fiabesche, costruito e arredato con una miscela eclettica e surreale di arte islamica, medievale e moderna, in cui facevano capolino cupole moresche, labirinti di scale escheriane, soffitti decorati a muqarnaṣ e un fiero ippogrifo di pietra a guardia della fortezza.
Da quel luogo delle meraviglie il Conte non si stacco più, trascorrendo l’intera vita a inventare e arredare nuove stanze. Ai suoi tempi d’oro nella Rocchetta trovarono ospitalità principi e sovrani, tra cui (si narra) Ludovico III di Baviera e lo Zar Alessandro II di Russia. Gli ambienti esoterici della Rocchetta furono anche lo scenario degli esperimenti del Conte, profondo studioso di quella che lui stesso battezzò elettromeopatia: una terapia medica di sua invenzione basata sull’abbinamento di “granuli medicati” e liquidi, detti anche “fluidi elettrici”. Queste tecniche segrete – su cui il Conte iniziò a esercitarsi dopo la morte della madre per tumore, adirato con la classe medica che non era riuscita a salvarla né ad alleviarne il dolore – ebbero enorme fortuna grazie anche a importanti citazioni (ne parla Dostoevskji ne I fratelli Karamàzov) e a testimoniati casi di guarigione.
Dopo la morte di Mattei nel 1896 per la Rocchetta iniziarono i tempi bui dell’abbandono. Durante la seconda guerra mondiale il castello venne saccheggiato dai tedeschi e gli eredi, non si sa bene il perché, tentarono di donarlo al Comune di Bologna, che rifiutò. Dopo un nuovo, lungo periodo di declino, nel 2006 il complesso venne acquistato e successivamente restaurato dalla Fondazione della Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna.
Dal 2015, data di riapertura al pubblico, la Rocchetta è diventata un’importante attrazione turistica del bolognese.
(testo liberamente tratto da un articolo de "Il Fatto quotidiano"
In ancient times it was the fortress of Savignano Lungoreno, an ancient manor that belonged to the Grand Countess Matilda of Canossa and destroyed in 1293. Many centuries later, on that spike of rock that dominates the municipality of Grizzana Morandi, in the Bolognese, Count Cesare Mattei decided to build what would become the future Rocchetta Mattei, an extraordinary place destined to remain unique and imitated.
The foundation stone was laid on November 5, 1850; only nine years later the Count, one of the founders of the Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna and member of the Parliament of Rome, was finally able to find a home in what was immediately shown in all its exceptionality: a castle with fairytale shapes, built and furnished with an eclectic and surreal blend of Islamic, medieval and modern art, in which Moorish domes peeped , mazes of Escherian stairs, ceilings decorated with muqarnaṣ and a proud stone hippogriff guarding the fortress.
From that place of wonders the Count no longer detaches, spending his whole life inventing and furnishing new rooms. In his golden days princes and kings found hospitality in the Rocchetta, including (it is said) Louis III of Bavaria and Tsar Alexander II of Russia. Rocchetta's esoteric environments were also the scene of the Conte's experiments, a deep scholar of what he himself called electromeopathy: a medical therapy of his invention based on the combination of "medicated granules" and liquids, also called "electric fluids". These secret techniques – on which the Count began to practice after the death of his mother from cancer, angry with the medical class that had failed to save her or relieve her pain – were enormously fortunate thanks also to important quotations (Dostoevskji talks about it in The Brothers Karamazov) and to witness cases of healing.
After Mattei's death in 1896, the dark days of abandonment began for the Rocchetta. During World War II the castle was sacked by the Germans and the heirs, it is not known why, tried to donate it to the Municipality of Bologna, which it refused. After a new, long period of decline, in 2006 the complex was purchased and later restored by the Foundation of the Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna.
Since 2015, the date of reopening to the public, the Rocchetta has become an important tourist attraction of the Bolognese.
granulated table salt - sodium chloride
Salt is essential for human life
And we can enjoy a pinch to season soup
Or use a bit more to preserve so many foods
But too much is bad and studies show that nearly everyone takes too much salt
...I try to go lightly but I do really like cheese and Kimchi!
MacroMondays theme this week is "granules".
The Rolling Stones - Salt Of The Earth
Macro Mondays theme: Granules
I haven't had much time to think about this theme this week, so perhaps this is an obvious choice. I ground some of the beans completely to get the granules, I partly ground others to get bigger parts, and included whole beans. Had to take it quickly before the light faded after the in-laws had gone home.
Many thanks for all your comments and favourites and HMM to everyone!
These coffee granules are being fed into the coffee grinder for Gulliver by a Lilliputian Barista.
The scene is 38 mm from the Barista's elbow to the handle of the wheelbarrow.
Macro Mondays, theme # Granules
for the scrappy pincushion swap
Filled with walnut shell granules
4 inch diameter.
I hope you like it partner!
Train 911 with 4412-753 makes its daily evening appearance at Kremlin and is picking up the usual 8-12 loads of roofing granules from the GAF plant. These will end up being interchanged to the EJ&E at Leithton, IL for delivery to a shingle manufacturing facility in the Chicago area.
For Macro Mondays, granules.
The background is what might be called diffraction grating foil on cardboard. The color is close to accurate. Window light.
Sanding sugar stuck to the side of the jar.
CC Most Versatile - Abstract "Macro techniques"
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This was a macro of coffee granules dissolving in stirred boiling water. When I was processing it I thought that it looked like a Norwegian Nisse, hence the title.
Interesting phraseology: ground coffee (the fresh off-the-shelf product) vs coffee grounds (the wastage following brewing).
Taken for the "Macro Mondays" theme of 4/21/2025: GRANULES.
Happy Macro Mondays!
This weeks theme: Granules
Wish I put more thought into the photo, but honestly was just out of time and needed to go on a minor emergency, so snapped this shot for the Monday Group
Shot with the 105mm lens with the addition of a Macro double lens attachment at the end. Small aperture for more detail.
#Granules
#Macro Mondays
Without the benefit of macro photography, this looks to the naked eye like shiny white salt powder at first glance.
Green Go green from The morning . Morning shows the day, I this photo there is a tooth brush , paste and mouth wash
The mica cap (Coprinellus micaceus) often grows in dense clusters in parks and gardens, on old stumps, roots, or buried wood. Young caps are bell-shaped and dusted with fine, gold- to silvery-shimmering granules that a rain shower quickly rinses away. The gills darken over time and ultimately dissolve into an inky liquid. As a wood decomposer, it returns nutrients to the soil and thrives in urban settings, especially on bark mulch.
All photos are of the same bird, only difference is the angle at which the photos were taken. The last two photos on the right are two from a sequence of shots I took. As the bird approached the flower of Beebalm plant its angle with respect to the sun changed slightly and that was enough to change the color of its throat (gorget) from dark to slightly red. The last to the left was when the bird briefly faced me, showing its ruby red throat.
The physics behind this change of color is very comprehensive. In simplest terms, Hummingbird feathers have stacks of hollow melanin granules (air bubbles) that reflect and refract light differently depending on the angle they enter and it changes between ruby red to almost black as seen in these photos. The color reflected is determined by the size and shape of the granules, for this hummingbird it just happens to be red. Riverwood Conservancy, Mississauga, Ontario.
These days I often disable the comment when there's not much of a story about a photo. People's time is precious as is, so coming to see the photo is more than enough.