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I’m not actually a big chess player now, but it was the first board game I learned to play. Board games are something of a passion for me and I play them whenever I can. I love the focus and strategy they require, but most of all, I enjoy the social aspect. My husband and I regularly have friends over under the guise of a dinner party when the real reason is just to play games.
This chess set and board come from the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, where we drank sweet apple tea and good-naturedly haggled for such a prize for a couple of hours, while intermittently discussing the merits of Pearl Jam and other bands from the Grunge Era that the shop keeper was enamoured with. I started out photographing the white pieces, but found that the darker tones made for a much more dramatic image, particularly when juxtaposed by the turquoise background.
Semi-frozen dandelion seedhead macro.
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A bit of macro magic.. ;D
Now that's a look! Did you know that flies can perceive movement six times faster than humans? This allows them to instantly react to danger and avoid predators. Thanks to these unique abilities, flies are some of the quickest insects around
They say that baby unicorns often play in the garden during Midsummer week...so I went out early to look, and, sure enough, I found one!
She whispered to me in her shy little voice that her name was Princess Lyra!
I hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday and perhaps you'll see a baby unicorn too if you look just right.....
My uncle collected remains that came out of a fireresistent brickstone factory, carved little wooden pedestals for them and glued them on top.
This is from "the valley of horses" a place nearby where I live. We used to make hikes there when we were kids and it's a place that have its magic and bound with history. Despite it is surrounded by an inhabited site and a motorway you can feel the magic.
There are tufa hills intersected by green valleys and streams with clear waters. Both cows and horses belong to this place which is why the name that me and my brothers did choose.
This place was a working place during the Roman era because of the tufa which was a material used for lot of buildings and in fact one can see lot of remnants from that period. Here is an album I made of this place where you can see other shots taken in the past year:
During springtime one can admire beds of anemone located upon the hills and in the woodland.
Used the 28mm odd kepkor lens and as you see I can come really close to subject. This lens is like developing film rolls you never know what the result can be till you see it on the pc screen and sometimes you can have unexpected surprises. I'll post one of those.
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Pentax K-5
Kepcor Auto Wide Angle MC 28mm 1:2.8
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A purely experimental image containing home-grown frost, a flashlight, a chuck of shiny blue chalcopyrite, and a Trioplan lens. Read on for how these ingredients interact!
(NOTE: Come see me at the CanAm Photo Expo this year in Buffalo NY March 31 – April 2. Well worth the time with 17 outstanding instructors and I’ll be showcasing all my macro magic in person. Prepare to be educated and inspired: canamphotoexpo.com/ )
We’ve got cold weather. Technically it’s spring when we should be seeing early flowers starting to bloom, but temps have dropped to -18C / 0.4F for a few nights in a row now with more on the way. Trying to continue my winter experiments as the opportunities allow, I placed an ultrasonic humidifier in an outdoor shed and turned it up to full blast. The result in the morning was magnificent – hoarfrost on the shelves and ceiling of the shed, allowing for plenty of photographic ideas to unfold in my mind.
I did some “ordinary” shots of the frost, and I liked them, but they seemed too static and “documentary”. I then experimented with printing gradients of orange-to-blue to place in the background, but it felt too staged and ultimately uninteresting. That’s when I grabbed one of my recent mineral acquisitions, a beautiful blue hue of Chalcopyrite, and placed it behind the frost, far enough to be out of focus.
Knowing that the crystal facets of the mineral will create coloured specular highlights, I knew it was an opportunity for some intense bokeh. I grabbed my trusty Trioplan 100 lens and set out to work with its “soap bubble” bokeh with a composition around one of the larger arms of frost on the top shelf of the shed. I aimed a (very bright) flashlight at the mineral with light spilling off onto the frost with an appropriate balance, and set to work to try and get something in focus.
Interesting, there is no part of the image that I could classify as truly sharp, even though I’ve seen sharpness from this lens at the widest aperture required for the best bokeh, F/2.8 I think this is due to the nature of the frost surface having so many facets that instantly start creating bokeh-like features as soon as focus falls off, and these overlap the areas that would otherwise be in focus as well. I’ve found a number of simple lenses that also generate sizeable chromatic aberration when shooting snowflakes and frost, and this was one of them. Cleaned it up in the frost, but left it in the bokeh for extra subtle ripples of colour.
Even the tip of the frost is fading out of focus and generating interesting bokeh. I shot this with an initial intent to focus stack a few frames together to increase the depth of field, but I fell in love with the abstract nature of the frost falling into the background. It’s a colourful, happy, abstract image. Maybe too colourful and artsy, but that’s where today’s experimentation brought me. I’d love to know your thoughts!
If you’d be interested in hearing musings like this live, with presentations and inventive demos that illustrate exactly how images like this come to life, you should absolutely attend the CanAm Photo Expo in Buffalo NY this year, held at the end of March / Beginning of April. I’m one of many instructors and am honoured to find myself in such a fantastic group of people who educate and inspire: canamphotoexpo.com/ - I’d love to shake your hand in person and show you how my “mad scientist” ideas come about, and how I follow through with them!
Saw these gorgeous orchids, on our way back to Curitiba yesterday, in an open air market in Morretes, PR, Brazil.
Have a Happy Easter and thanks for dropping by.
These hooked seeds are made for travelers ...
Zoochorie : ... En attente de velues créatures ou de vêtues âmes sur le chemin pour s'accrocher et ainsi se disperser, nous, les précieux akènes, sommes la promesse d'une itération de plus de la vie ...
Adelante vida ! ;-)
Taste it with a nocturne of Chopin : www.youtube.com/watch?v=5btAymZyeGc
This image was fun to create, and as usual involves some interesting science. It reminds me of a tiny universe, just born, in the center of a flower. View large!
The droplet in the center, and the tiny specs of light around the image are not the work of elaborate Photoshop techniques or composites. These are created by invisible ink, and illuminated with a special flash that only emits ultraviolet light. When the light hits the ink it fluoresces and glows, but the UV light itself cannot be seen until it interacts with the droplets. The invisible ink then effectively becomes the light source in the image, making magic.
The light from the flash was positioned on top of the flower, very close and slightly behind the main droplet in the center. This allowed it to glow brightly, but also made the front of the droplet to fluoresce less (since the effect is created through reflectance, and the light source is positioned slightly back). This adds extra magic, because this part of the droplet is not completely over-exposed, and turns into an orb of stars when the surrounding tiny droplets reflect off the surface, creating a universe.
The center droplet was put in place with a hypodermic needle, and the surrounding droplets were sprayed from a mist bottle. Based on this experience, I don’t recommend you fill a spray bottle with invisible ink and use it indoors!
Also: for those interested, I have two workshops coming up this month! A full-day macro workshop with I promise will be awesome on May 29th in Barrie, ON (www.donkom.ca/product/full-day-macro-workshop/ ) and a post-processing / Lightroom / Photoshop workshop on May 26th in Toronto, ON (www.donkom.ca/product/post-processing/ ). Most workshops still have room, but space is limited!