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We have lots of this colourful and interestingly shaped plant in one of our flower beds. It's flowering much more this year.

38th Imagoism Thursday

 

Our tribute to a very talented artist and wonderful friend, imago2007

 

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one of my early macro shots with a Nikon Coolpix. this appears to be a milkweed bug under a decaying yellow lily flower

Cropped

 

Flickr #168 Nov 24.2008

This is a similar shot to a one I uploaded recently but this one I took with a lower shutter speed. I much prefer this one because of the light and shadows and general feeling of drama

Refractions of a sunflower... E x p l o r e d !   Its highest position is #11.

 

I'm back to shooting macros. Just practicing my eye while waiting for the Kenko extension tube set to arrive. Two more nights -- I just can't wait!

   

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These were the last of the irises from the garden which I cut and put into a vase to enjoy indoors although I wasn't aware that after a couple of days they start to drip a purple liquid so this evening they've gone to their compost heap in the sky :-)

The flowerbed in the garden with the "cherry lips" salvia in full bloom

Tabanus bromius

Single frame

Last night we had incredible storms, one after the other with lots of very welcome rain. When I was putting our food waste in the compost bin in the garden this morning after the storm clouds had passed and the sun was coming out I noticed this bush of hibiscus flowers. They had survived the rain and were still covered in raindrops which I thought was quite remarkable considering the severity of the storms. It's been full sun all afternoon and the temperature has dropped to a very pleasant 24c. Not to be sniffed at 😊

now I'm back on my normal work days... and back logs are piling up.. argghhh!!

 

but I'm looking forward on visiting your streams again... just give me time...I'll definitely pop up soon!

 

HappyBeeWednesday!!!, my friends!!!

 

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a milk frother (2 cm in diameter), taken with the manual LAOWA 60mm ultra macro lens, illuminated with a small red LED-light

 

Macro Mondays, theme of November 13, 2023: tool

and 52 in 2023 challenge: #42 = blunt

 

Happy (Macro) Mondays, everyone

 

I am busy today; I will try to catch up tonight or on Tuesday.

Taken for Macro Mondays - theme "Father"

(here: something that was given to me by my father)

 

This faceted crystal sun-catcher was a gift from my father. If I remember correctly, he brought it with him from an inpatient rehab stay.

 

It's already a bit worse for wear after all those years, with a chipped edge (or two) and a lot of micro scratches. But it still refracts the light beautifully ... it hangs on the balcony door of my study. A lovely memento ♡

 

... shine on !

 

( the whole suncatcher is just under 4 cm in diameter )

 

Happy Macro Mondays, everyone !

  

Guess who'se hiding behind the palm tree...lol.

  

on Explore, Front Page!.. #1 on May 12...my first!!!..thanks a lot, dear friends!!

 

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We've just endured 2/3 days of storms, the third week in a row we've had such storms. I've never known so much rain since we arrived. The river at the bottom of our garden is a raging tempest - fortunately, not dangerous to us. Yesterday evening we had alerts pop up on our phone from the authorities warning us that there was 'danger to life and limb' from the rain. These are storms which are particular to the area and are called a 'Cévenol episode' which, according to Madame Google is defined as:

 

"A meteorological phenomenon that mainly occurs in the Cévennes (France) and its surrounding area.

 

It consists of very violent and highly localised storms, accompanied torrential rain, in most cases causing, flooding.

 

How do Cévenol episodes form - the phenomenon is well known to meteorologists and it is relatively well understood. Cévenol episodes form when the warm and humid air from the Mediterranean heads north. When it comes up against the mountains barrier of the Cévennes, it meets the cold air present at high altitude. These conditions are often present in autumn. They classically form rain clouds. But in this case, the clouds are blocked by the mountain and perpetually form and re-form. Thus, storms can last for several hours, causing major damage.

 

Few have forgotten the Vaison-la-Romaine deluge in 1992 during which 150 mm of water fell in two hours, or almost one quarter of the annual rainfall for Paris."

 

I appreciate that living in the south of France has many advantages especially concerning the weather but we do have life threatening storms - three in the last three weeks.

 

Bon Dimanche! (Happy Sunday!) 😊

carpenter bee or bumble bee on a cosmos flower

Poppies in the garden being blown hither and thither by strong warm breezes. We're currently having a bit of a heatwave with temperatures of 30c so an early blast of summer

I found small creature inside the flower, really interesting, i cant imagine how my lens can get in to the petals and capture this small spider... hahaha, is this jumping spider???

I took this in Spring when there was a beautiful spread of poppies in the garden

Explore: Nov 11, 2008 # 298

from my archives

I took this photo of one of many dandelion seedheads in our garden in Springtime. I thought it looked more interesting flipped over.

A macro of the heart of a peony

The Goal was to combine the Flickr Fridays Theme and Macro Mondays in one shot.

 

In this photo, there is somehow space between the caliper and the shadows. Caliper is set to 60 mm, with 8 tines within the caliper, 2 2/3 of 3 forks and another tine of a forth fork to the right. On top some reflection and light pattern, where the sun is reflecting at the tips of the tines into the macro objective producing some lense flare.

 

Flicker Mondays theme is shadows. Where there is no need, to include the object itself. Macro Fridays, war redo, like repeat or do it again. And for Macro Mondays there are size restrictions, too. Maximum size of 75 mm or 3 “.

 

Anyway, all these pictures include shadows and repeated pattern. Therefore, photos were made with two different sizes of forks, smaller one and larger one. Started with 5 of larger onces and then reduced to 4, 3, 2 and one, and repeat with the smaller once. And partly, just for fun a caliper was include to measure the size of the shadows. In Total approx. 30 pictures,

 

As for the making of, these photos, sometimes in the afternoon, on a black plate of slate, normally used as coaster at my dining table or the balcony table

 

Feel free to leave comments and constructive feedback. No P1/C1 or seen in group and similar. I will delete these mostly, especially with a big logo.

Taken in the garden an hour ago when the sun come out after hours of very welcome torrential rain

Happy Sunday and happy new month! 😊

Macro Mondays - theme: abstract

 

a square of decorative plastic 'thingies' you can use for crafting (for example, greeting cards); it looks like tiny rhinestones, but it's just concave plastic indentation

(width of the image: 2,5 cm)

 

taken with the 60mm Laowa 2:1 ultra macro lens @ about f8; underexposed and I used a pink transparent plastic sphere as some kind of colour filter, placed in front of a LED torch

 

HMM, everyone !

I am bit under the weather; I will try to catch up later on

Taken in the garden from the mimosa tree which this year bloomed beautifully! I see I took this on 20 February. Looking at it now it's a sorry state after all the recent rains we had.

hoverfly on nantucket lacecap hydrangea (macro)

Another result of my recent playing around with colour (& water) - a red feather caught in my euphorbia trigona (African Milk Tree) and then sprayed with water. Red represents vitality, the life force, physical energy and strength, passion, power and courage. If you encounter a red feather, it may be a sign that you are becoming stronger, or getting your strength back after a health issue. Here's hoping.....

Another excellent image of our hybrid yellow Hibiscus plant, with another maginificent display of beauty. The details are awesome when viewed in large, such a lovely color and variety of Hibiscus.

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Thanks for all your support on my work.Hope Y'all like it. Lol: Gaston (aka Gasssman).

view in large or original size for awesome details of this yellow beauty.

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