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Photographed by Adaptalux Customer, Desmond Lingard. This is a Barbie Doll illuminated with an Adaptalux Studio, showing just how the colours can really make a subject unique.
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After projects I keep the left overs and give them new life by smashing and cutting them till the color bleeds all over my light table.
After projects I keep the left overs and give them new life by smashing and cutting them till the color bleeds all over my light table.
On June 18th 1999 co-founder Peter Newman sold the computer company that he had built up over the previous 8 years, to a successful American Corporation. In 1991 Peter formed a company, which he called Ç-Dilla. This company focused solely on providing software tools to help electronic publishers stop the CDs that they produced from being copied or used in any way other than what they had sold them for. At that time not many CD-ROMs were being published, nor had many people heard of the new publishing format. Also many people weren't concerned about CDs being copied. The company had started doing something way ahead of its time and found the going hard at first.
During the next few years the company perfected the technique of manufacturing CDs, which could not be copied and found a ready market in the PC games arena, in which by 1998 CD piracy had become rife. This technology came to the attention of a company called Macrovision. They had perfected a means of stopping videocassettes from being copied and were being used by most of the Hollywood film industries to stop films being copied when they went to video cassettes. Macrovision were looking for a technology that could cope with a disc format, they had become successful on the cassette format, so they made an offer to Peter for his company that he could not refuse.
Instead of taking cash he took shares in Macrovision. These shares were listed on the New York stock exchange (NASDAQ) so after holding them for a year, they could be sold. However in order to defer paying capital gains tax, Peter took advantage of the Government scheme to persuade successful entrepreneurs to plough their money back into the economy. This scheme, called the Enterprise Investment Scheme or EIS, made it desirable to invest the proceeds of share sales into other businesses, which is how Peter came to buy L'ortolan.
Peter was introduced to Alan Murchison and formed a partnership that together realised many accolades during its initial two year period. Alan re-opened L’ortolan in September 2001 and gradually regained its reputation as a destination dining experience par excellence, culminating in the revered one star award from the Michelin Red Guide early in 2003. During this period Alan also found time to get married and become the father of a baby daughter which prompted his decision to find a new challenge closer to his home and family in Southampton. Alan then had the task of finding someone who could continue to maintain and build on the l'ortolan name and reputation at the same rate as Alan had initiated. After some searching the services of Daniel Galmiche were secured. A little over a year after leaving Alan Murchison has once again taken up the reins. The story continues....
After projects I keep the left overs and give them new life by smashing and cutting them till the color bleeds all over my light table.
They were all over my garden on Saturday when I took this pic 🐝
Got lucky and caught this one mid flight on his way to the pink flower 🌺
Desert #rose #AdeniumObesum with swollen stems, slim leaves & striking #flowers grows where there is sufficient light, warmth & water.
Be wary of its poisonous sap.
Austin, Texas...April 18, 2008
a good macro lens really does open up a whole new world to explore...another macrovision pic with flash to begin this quick tour...
enjoy your Saturday...have fun!
Dozing off in style this #DaddyLongLeg #spider was the just-right subject for #macrophotography sans costly #macro #lens in Tungareshwar #wildlife reserve.
Gifted with long slender legs and a lean body, they violently shake the web when disturbed to blur the vision of predator.
📷 Nikon D7200 🔎 Nikon 50mm 1.8G (reversed with Fotodiox Nikon adapter) with 48mm of Neewer extension tubes
Overflowing senses
Heightened awareness
I hear my blood flow
I feel its caress
Whispering cosmos
Talking right to me
Unlimited, endless
God breathing through me
See the microcosm
In macrovision
Our bodies moving
With pure precision
One universal
Celebration
One evolution
One creation
Thundering rhythm
Pounding within me
Driving me onwards
Forcing me to see
Clear and enlightening
Right there before me
Brilliantly shining
Intricate beauty
See the microcosm
In macrovision
Our bodies moving
With pure precision
One universal
Celebration
One evolution
One creation
[ lyrics | hear (on Grooveshark - song isn't on YouTube) ]
Sometimes we focus on the smallest details and miss the giant things in front of us. "Can't see the forest for the trees," as the saying goes. We miss the group of people who do care about us because we're too fixated on the individual we want to be cared about by. It's rare I'll quote R.E.M. but I am fond of the statement from "Losing My Religion": Oh, life is bigger... It's bigger than you, and you are not me; the lengths that I will go to, the distance in your eyes. I usually express it using Men Without Hats' "Jenny Wore Black": You'll never see clear with tears in your face... hey, you'll never see clearly anyway. It's the microcosms in macrovision that we live for and risk dying of.
I've plotted this photo for weeks; I knew that when I found a good observation point at the Grand Canyon, I'd put on my 2.2x lens attachment (which I refer to affectionately as my "nausea induction device") and point at something a great distance away. Behind the amphetheatre there's a 2/5 of a mile long paved trail that goes to a walkway along the rim, and with a little wandering around this perfect place off the path but still a safe distance from the ledge appeared to me. All scenery, no barricades -- just me and the camera, with people walking by on the trail 15 yards or so behind me so they were within sight but out of mind. It wasn't my personal vision of Nirvana but I'm sure with concentration it could be a step in that direction, being Arahat... losing of the burden. I took this photo for you.
Next #prey trapped into the intricately woven #funnelweb will be devoured at leisure by the #spider after coolly coming out of the #web burrow
The Indian #FunnelWebSpider is harmless compared to its lethally deadlier Australian counterpart
Tough to capture amongst the leaves this hawk #moth #caterpillar was strikingly noticeable against the rocky terrain
Pale green with a conspicuous black tail-spike it was pretending to pose for the #camera
Cutest catch of an adventurous Tungareshwar #nature trail
Hand-held #macrophotography sans costly #macro lenses. @AdilGuzder