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The blue hour over lower Manhattan was particularly dramatic earlier this evening. The scene with the clouds and the spot of light right behind the Freedom Tower was just captivating! This was the view from the Paulus Hook Ferry terminal by the Jersey City waterfront. Photo taken with my Nikon D7500 DSLR camera, handheld.
Mexikanische Totenköpfe sind aus Ton und reich verziert, was den Angstfaktor verringern soll. Nach der Überlieferung soll ein mexikanischer Totenkopf die Seele eines Verstorbenen darstellen, und er ist ein fester Bestandteil der Feier zum Tag der Toten. Die Mexikaner gravieren zumeist den Namen der Verstorbenen in den Totenkopf und stellen diesen dann auf den Grabstein, was die Friedhöfe dann auch sehr bunt aussehen lässt.
Mexican skulls are made of clay and are richly decorated, which is supposed to reduce the fear factor. According to tradition, a Mexican skull is supposed to represent the soul of a deceased person, and it is an integral part of the Day of the Dead celebration. Mexicans mostly engrave the name of the deceased on the skull and then place it on the tombstone, which then makes the cemeteries look very colorful.
Post processed in Luminar AI filters and Topaz Labs Star Effects Filters
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The second of my two pictures inspired by Fragonard. This is the one that's a bit surreal!
A monarch butterfly paid a visit to our mini urban garden, where we are growing pink echinacea coneflowers. We were delighted with this visit as this was the first time we ever had butterflies coming to pollinate our garden flowers. The monarch spent quite a bit of time sucking the nectar from each coneflower, what a feast!
When an adult butterfly lands on a flower to suck some delicious nectar through its proboscis, it accidentally gathers pollen on its body as it rubs against the anther. The butterfly rubs some of the pollen on the next flower it moves to and collects some more. Through this process, the butterfly is able to pollinate numerous flowers as it moves along. Pollination allows plants to reproduce by producing seeds.
... or Honeycombs
#MacroMonday
#Oranje/Orange
Get well soon, Hans, we are looking forward to when you will be back as group admin and also with new photo contributions to the MM group :)
Something I've always wanted to photograph with the extension tubes in order to get really close, but never got it quite right. Well, it's still far from perfect, but at least I managed to get a fairly sharp image of these tiny honeycomb cubes (size of each cube: 2x2 mm / 0,07x0,07 inches) this time. They are inside of a small orange spoke (or rear) reflector, a scratched, battered thing that must have fallen off a bicycle. I picked it up in the street one day, because I thought it might be useful for Macro Mondays one day. I've already used this once before for a theme, the "Lit by Candlelight" theme from December 2017 (you can find the photo in the third comment, I was too slow ;) ). And since Hans is Dutch, and the Netherlands are a bycicle country, I thought the reflector might be an appropriate subject for the Oranje / Orange theme :)
I've used both extension tubes (which gave me 26 mm on top of the 60 mm from my macro lens), the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens and a +4 close-up filter. The result reminds me of an optical illusion, because I can see both the cubes and the honeycombs, but not at the same time. I hope it's not too confusing to look at. I had to do some extensive dust and "scratch bokeh" removal (some of the many scratches on the plastic surface appeared as bokeh spots, but not nice ones, when I focused on the inside of the reflector) with the healing brush to make it pleasant to look at, and only when I applied a slightly matte look in Analog Efex it looked right to me.
I have a very busy day today, so I hope I can catch up with you tonight. HMM, Everyone, stay safe!
#MacroMonday
#Rust
#200
Explored 23 March, 2021
Magishroom buddies :) They belong to the rare shroom species "Bolt-headed Rainbow Rustlings", also known as "Sleepless Rustlings". These Rainbow Rustlings are of an unconspicious rusty orange-brown colour during the daytime, and will only reveal their true colourful beauty at night – hence their surname "sleepless". There are different colour varieties, depending on the colour of the cap: There are Midnight Rustlings with a blue cap, Emerald Rustlings, and these two fellows are of the Ruby variety. I've collected them once during a visit to the Naturpark Schöneberg (please see my album), already with a possible MM assignment in mind. The Naturpark Schöneberg is a popular public park, located on a former railway compound, which now is a re-naturated urban paradise and also a paradise for all things rust. Since I visited the park at daytime (as you might have guessed), I was completely unaware of the type of Rustling I'd collected then, but after last night's photo shooting I know that, next to the Ruby variety, I'd also collected some Rustings of the Midnight type. And it was really hard to decide between the two different final Rustling images, but in the end, the Rubies won by an eyelash.
OK, these are rivets or stay bolts. They look like screws or nails, but possess neither a screw's thread nor a nail's tip, and I struggled to find the correct English term (I thought "bolts", which isn't totally wrong, but not quite right, either), because I was also unsure about the correct German term (Bolzen or Niet), but Ferroequinologist Gal and johnsinclair8888 kindly clarified what these "wannabe shrooms" really are - thank you for that :)
The larger rivet's head is 2,9 cm / 1,14 inches in diameter (its smaller buddy's head is 1,4 cm / 0,55 inches in diameter), and both are 3,6 cm / 1,41 inches long (but you can only see that in the Midnight Rustling image). The colour isn't paint, but light shone through my makeshift filters; I'd placed the green bottle on the right, and for the cap I used the transparent red plastic chocolate box lid – I put a small LED torch onto it and held both above the bolts. At first I thought three different colour filters could look nice – red, blue (tealight holder) and green –, and the results did look nice, but with three different colours on the bolts the natural rust colour wasn't visible anymore. So I decided to stick to two different colours. Technically, this is an in-camera focus stacking made of 15 images. The in-camera processed final Jpg images looked pretty good already, so I hadn't to do any pre-processing in DXO this time, but only tweaked the colours (saturation and luminosity) in LR, and enhanced the details (small and medium) in Luminar AI where I'd also slightly boosted the colour contrast.
This image also marks my 200th entry for Macro Mondays. I discovered this randomly when I checked something in my MM album last week and saw that there were 199 images in it. Now there are 200 :)
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and to the next 200 :)
At a recent visit to the New York Botanical Garden, I was very fortunate to spot this colorful dragonfly landing on a sacred lotus bud. These gracious lotuses are just some of the aquatic garden plants found at the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
Adult dragonflies are characterized by large, multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong, transparent wings, sometimes with coloured patches, and an elongated body. Many dragonflies have brilliant iridescent or metallic colours produced by structural colouration, making them conspicuous in flight.
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Laowa C-Dreamer 7.5 F/2
Explored March 7, 2021
It's kaleidoscope time again :) While flipping through my archive in search of something for Sliders Sunday, I came across an image I've taken almost two years ago at the inner courtyard of the Jewish Museum Berlin. The inner courtyard is part of the baroque "Kollegienhaus" which housed the court of appeal, and, later, the Berlin museum, before it became part of the Jewish Museum in 2001 together with a new building designed by Daniel Libeskind. The impressive steel construction and glass roof that cover the Kollegienhaus courtyard were also designed by Libeskind and added in 2007. At 670 m² (7211 square feet), the courtyard is rather huge, and back then I only took images of parts of the roof which didn't look that interesting on their own, so I decided to go for a kaleidoscoped interpretation and quadrupled one image in PS. Processed in HDR Efex and Luminar AI (High Key filter).
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, stay safe and healthy!
Auf-Streben-d
Beim Durchstöbern meines Archivs bin ich kürzlich auf Fotos gestoßen, die ich im Juli 2019 im Innenhof des Jüdischen Museums Berlin aufgenommen hatte. Der Innenhof gehört zum barocken Kollegienhaus (vormals Kammergericht, später beherbergte es das Berlin Museum, bevor es 2001, zusammen mit dem Neubau von Daniel Libeskind, zum Jüdischen Museum wurde). 2007 wurde der 670 m² große Innenhof des Kollegienhauses nach einem weiteren Entwurf von Libeskind um ein beeindruckendes Glasdach mit Stahlkonstruktion erweitert. Ich habe von damals nur Fotos von Teilen des Daches, die für sich allein nicht so spannend sind, weshalb ich mich hier wieder mal an einer kleinen Kaleidoskop-Spielerei versucht habe: Ihr seht ein Foto, dass ich in PS vervierfacht und mit diversen Spiegelungen, sowohl vertikal als auch horizontal, neu zusammengesetzt habe. Entwickelt in HDR Efex und Luminar AI (High-Key-Filter).
Ich wünsche Euch einen angenehmen Wochenstart (und allen Berlinern morgen einen schönen Feiertag), passt gut auf Euch auf und bleibt gesund :)