Macro Monday: In Between

- Water on a Weed Leaflet, freezing up during A Macro Show, Down to Earth, AZ. -

"Egg" "Macro Monday"

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. – George Iles

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." Rabindranath Tagore

"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend." Emily Dickinson

"Art is not living. It is the use of living." Audre Lorde

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

~ Audrey Hepburn

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." Carl Jung

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” ―Anna Freud

“Hope is a waking dream.”

― Aristotle

I love the name of this plant. There is something about the pattern in this that appeals to me. I cannot quite explain it

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more." C.S. Lewis

We all need a pop of colour!

Alliteration aside this Weasley. He is the our little ham. He also thinks he is a puppy

Here's one of those images that you hope turns out so you take elvententy billion shots in hopes that one turns out not too bad

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." Ayn Rand

"Macro Monday" "Made of Metal"

Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an American pop singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker and spokesman.. One of his most famous hits was "Love Letters in the Sand" that was number one on Billboard in June and July, 1957.

“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

"At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell. But as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found, one Christmas, that she could no longer hear it's sweet sound. Though I have grown old, the bell still rings for me. As it does for all who truly believe." Polar Express

Marbles create all kinds of fascinating pictures. I have not done a monochrome one before.

So in the last two days we have gotten over 20 cm of Snow here in Edmonton Alberta. It has been a long time since we have got that much snow.

I cannot figure out a title for this one. I am usually pretty good at this

I love shooting marbles. I am not sure why. Maybe because it was one of my first macro shots

"Walked out this morning

Don't believe what I saw

A hundred billion bottles

Washed up on the shore

Seems I'm not alone at being alone

A hundred billion casatways

Looking for a home"

~ The Police

"Macro Monday" "Contraption"

American Waltham Watch Company-- December7, 1886

Marbles. When I find one I love I gotta shoot it

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. "Benjamin Franklin

So my sarcasm may have leaked through in this shot ;) Have a fantastic weekend and avoid that prick!

I love when the simplest of things, like a pant on a table in a cafe, turn out be the prettiest images.

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” - Lucille Ball

This is something I did that was completely out of my comfort zone. I almost deleted this image three times.