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I love this lantern. It's in my backyard and it is probably one of my favorite things to shoot back there.

Timothy took two and three quarter days to climb the rock. He didn't mind, because when you are only three quarters of an inch tall the world is a very different place.

There is so much beauty in patterns. Fractals occur in everything.

It really doesn't matter how we feel in a situation if we feel as though we don't measure up that is all we know.

 

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

This little bobble hangs on the willow tree in my backyard. Usually it spins and the glass ball at the bottom reflects all the beautiful sunlight. Right now the cooper wire seems to be keeping the snow enclosed inside it.

Maybe some days we don't need to cry til we can't breathe...

"Hang my head, drown my fear

Till you all just disappear"

"My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!" Edna St. Vincent Millay

#MacroMondays and #Flame

I was playing around in the kitchen last night

We all need more than this to be gentle with ourselves

“Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to...”

#MacroMondays and #MyFavouriteNovel(Fiction)

So simple. So elegant. Hidden gems of light that dance.

Just took it an hour or two ago...

 

Let's float !

 

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Read an inspiring quote every day. Why you may ask? Well I struggles with depression and since I started posting pictures on Flickr I started reading inspiring quotes. I figured if you weren't inspired by my photos maybe the words attached to them would inspire you instead. But guess what happened? I started feeling better. I am unsure if it is the pictures or reading all these really cool quotes but either way I feel better. That is the real win!

I was traveling to Arcata from Palo Alto last Saturday and decided to stop for lunch (we had prepared food from home). Cherry Creek Rest stop was open unlike other closed ones. This is probably the best rest stop I have been to in California! There were many picnic benches among tall redwood trees but the spring bloom was at its best. The area was filled with wild flowers and of course many bugs! I did not carry my macro lens but 100-400 did a decent job catching this lifer!

Taken at Gamble Garden, Palo Alto. Actually there are around ~6000 different species of them! This is just one!

I gather for hours, these moments where I live inside of you. Where I curl softly

in the kindness of your extended hand. Where I have composed such brilliant

language, but cannot yet speak it.

 

*seen in explore

"The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought." Chen-Ning Yang

 

I wanted to stay 'low' to avoid further injuries on a beautiful Sunday. The Gamble Garden is booming! The bugs are not coming out yet but the annuals are!

50mm+16mm extension tube.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

 

Your comments and favs are appreciated more than you know

  

Spare a thought for this bloke. spent the last few days in my shower.

 

Was so traumatizing for him watching me shower he must have bitten 2 legs off!

 

Unless he lost a wrap battle with the Dolophones down the street and the looser had to watch me shower for a few days.. Not sure...

  

I gotta admit AWKWARD!!

  

Jokes aside poor Huntsman he was a bit dehydrated so gave him a drink and put him out where he can have a feed.

  

97 image hand held focus bracket. Images gathered manually and loaded into Adobe PS for aligning and stacking.

 

Location , Wodonga , VIC , Australia 🇦🇺

 

Flash was set to 1/256 power here

 

📷 Olympus EM1 Mkii

🔎 Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm Macro + Raynox DCR 250

⚡ Godox V1

Meike 10mm extension tube

♻ CJ Diffuser.

  

#CJDIFFUSER #TAAM

 

Have a nice day

  

#huntsmanspider #macromadness #amazingmacro

Taken outside of my office building as I headed to lunch on a cold rainy Monday.

50mm + 16mm extension tube

All these years, I have only seen them in photos. Finally I was able to photograph and find more than one in one day! All thanks to Chris Orr (BFF of Lou - Bug Finder Forever:-) and Roberto. @ LA Arboretum. This one was on the butterfly bushes near Rose Garden. 9 image HDR.

This gorgeous lady flew in and sat so close to me, I had to step back to put her within shortest focusing distance at Edgewood Park. Cropped for straightening but almost a full frame.

"In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray." ~ Paul Dano

 

This is straight out of the Camera. I am finally starting to see the progress in my photography. Thank you Monique <3

At first I thought, it was a drone fly nut did some more research and it looks like species of a digger bee. Seen @ Herb Garden - LA Arboretum

This does not happen everyday with a handheld 180 mm L but maybe I was in good company! :-) Lou just pointed me to a Mexican cactus fly and Roberto was photographing it. We saw a a skipper and was debating what kind it was. This Monarch just flew overhead and I clicked. Sheer luck!

Finally I installed the subscription version of Lightroom as my legacy version stopped working one day! So far, I am loving it! These photos were taken last month but never processed. This tiny day flying moth is endemic to pacific northwest but can be also found in the bay area and Pt. Reyes.

These were born in the same nest as the baby bird pictures I posted over the last 2 years.

I was messing around with some tones and colors and came up with this beauty, also used the dodge and burn tool over some of the image

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