I've been there!

I am so sick of the lingering winter so I thought I'd make a statement (sorry green teams, I don't really want global warming... just Indiana warming).

So I tried to shoot a globe being warmed. There are many ways to shoot it. Oven, candle, lighter, fireplace, etc.

None look very nice without lots of natural light, I suspect. Here is the one image that I like from my photoshoot.

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Arroyo Dulce Argentina

This is a single droplet of water on a needle eye. I used an upside down map of the world as a backdrop and inverted the map by refracting it through the droplet to create a Globe.

I stuck a marketing poster underneath and fired a strobe up. This one I like.

Strobist Info:

Nikon D7000 CLS Commander

Nikon SB600 Speedlight Group A (TTL -3.0) Stage Left From slightly above on Tripod with LumiQuest Snoot XTR Tube at 4"

Nikon SB700 Speedlight Group B (TTL -1.7) Beneath glass table pointed up, with LumiQuest Softbox II

Glass Table surface

More sea monsters, why does it have to be sea monsters?

Global perspective

For Macro Mondays, theme: Oscar Wilde quotes.

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

-- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.

Arroyo Dulce Argentina

Tis the season of spent dandelion globes

For some reason, I keep calling dandelions daffodils...

Using 10x jeweler's loupe against the lens.

quello che si può fare con un accendino che non usate mai:

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Electricity at work. The background it is resting on is a DVD disk. Nikkor 105mm Micro lens.

Texas on an old globe of mine. Old enough to have the Soviet Union on it.

Aperture

f/2.8

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A beautiful and symbolic gift from the lovely Mehrnush found a perfect home in the big wall of windows in my bedroom. I love its perfect self-contained universe.

The globe thistles in front of Carton House reception didn’t just catch my eye, it seems the bumble bees noticed them too

I've been wanting to take this shot for a very long time, but sometimes either it was the light causing the problems, or just couldn't find the right angle. But alas, I achieved success! =D

Heal the world. Make it a better place. For you and for me, and the entire human race.

section of a chocolate globe with stamped hearts

I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.

- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Allium flowers - the Chive plant in my garden.

The original un-pharted pic

I have two suns and two moons. The globes light up in alternating colors at night after storing energy from the sun all day. They can be hypnotizing if you let them!

Shooting the first snowfall through my little glass orb ...

"Zee world! She eez a round, like my head!"

"No no! She eez a flat, like your head!"

michaelkwan.com - Feeling a little festive?

Globe thistle