You'll never guess this one. It's the top of a spool for winding film negative onto when developing the film. I shone a red light into the side of it and then put my husband's black beanie hat in there as well, to create the black contrast. 😀 HMM

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🔭: Lomo 3.7x

💡 : KUANG REN Macro Twin Lite

IOS:200

Exposure time :1/80s

# of stacked Pics : 370

Step size : 20um

stacked with : #Wemacro using #affinityphoto

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The New Zealand 10 cent coin features a Māori carved mask or Koruru, along with Māori rafter patterns. The 20 cent coin has a Māori 'pukaki' carving and was released in 1990. The 50 cent coin shows the barque ship Endeavour by Captain Cook, sailing south with Mt Taranki behind. It would have passed by Mt Taranaki, early in 1770, as it sailed down to Ship Cove in the South Island after first anchoring in Turanganui (Poverty Bay) in the North Island.

I had a bit of a search to find coins to photograph. With electronic payments becoming the everyday method for financial transactions, physical currency is used less and less in our country. New Zealand adopted digital banking and payments very early in the 1980's, although actual money was still being used widely, until 1999 when online banking was more strongly adopted. Then with Covid and not wanting to touch things that have passed through many hands, electronic payments became way more prevalent. All banks in the area I live in, have long closed their branches and everything is managed online. I certainly don't carry currency in my wallet. 💲

Bee: Just one more petal for the gram.

Me: Hold still or I swear I’ll buzz too.

My old 'Paid' stamp. I've had this one for more than 20 years and I'm surprised that it still works well. It's a self-inking press stamp where the ink pad section is fixed within the stamp housing behind the die. When you press the stamp down, the 'pad' compresses down and ink seeps through the rubbery die to stamp out the word. It's tricky to add more ink to the felt pad and I'm sure you can imagine the mess that it makes of my fingers. It's a great stamp that sits in my desk drawer waiting to be used and it never fails me. I've not taken its photo before, so this is a first

Yes it's the corner of a box. One that you buy as a flat shape of cardboard and fold together. I've made jigsaw puzzles from several of my children's photos and I put them in these little boxes. I buy the boxes flat and fold them into shape as I need them. You never know what else you might use your items for, do you?

Macro Monday's Theme 30 May 2022. This is vegetable protein powder that we have in our thick breakfast shakes, made with Soy Milk and sliced bananas, every morning since 1990. The only time we wouldn't have this drink is when we're away for a short break. It's coupled with a fresh vegetable juice drink made from carrots, beetroot and celery with a touch of root ginger. Yum

This is my entry into the MACRO MONDAYS competition theme "Sound" for the week beginning 31 August 2020.

I took this macro photo using an electronic keyboard and a sheet of written music "Clair de Lune" (moonlight) by Claude Debussy.

It was an interesting undertaking, trying to get the camera positioned in a way to show the keys and the music, along with reflections of the music onto the keys. In the end I had my tripod bent in half, with the camera upside down and set about 2mm above the keys, while I moved lights around until I achieved a good reflection. Really fun to do.

Flower

The matchstick burned,

in blue and gold,

it glowed in red,

then died to grey,

turned black,

and was gone...........

I always keep a selection of plastic-covered hooks. If it hangs, they can hang it. Look all around our house and you'll see the result of my handiwork with white hooks. And then, just to confuse the issue as you're looking around, the odd coloured tack will stand out.

The autumn is fantastic. You can see so much different things at that time of the year.

📷 Olympus OM-1

⚪️ Laowa 25mm - set at 4x magnification (MFT scale 8:1)

🔎 Polarisation Filter

⚡️ Godox V350O

AK Diffuser

Stacked images 26 hand held pictures

🐞 Oczobarwnica mniejsza (Erythromma viridulum)

🐞🐝🐛 live insects in the field 🌸🍂🌿

Der Schwarzbraunbinden-Blattspanner, auch als Bergwald-Blattspanner bezeichnet, ist ein Schmetterling aus der Familie der Spanner.

Dieser kleine Kerl war ziemlich hektisch gewesen. Habe mich Ihm langsam genähert und war kurz davor meine Kamera drauf zu halten, da flog Er auch wieder weg.

Zudem setze Er sich dann auch immer an solchen Positionen (zb. tief im Gras auf Bodennähe) die einen sehr unruhigen Hintergrund verursachen würden und das wollte ich halt nicht.

Nach ca. 40 Anläufen oder so hat Er sich dann schön an einem Grashalm gesetzt :)

"In Ice". What a great challenge. This one's a dressmaker's thimble with tiny seed beads spilling out, set in a block of ice that's slightly melted away. HMM 😀

HMM

What a very cool film camera, from its rose-gold plastic body to it's very long zoom lens, that fits perfectly into my pocket. Olympus MJU VF 140 is a fully-automatic 35 mm autofocus lens-shutter camera with built-in 38-140mm zoom lens that takes wonderful pictures. There's nothing more to say other than"click".