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Lavender Cotton blooms taken at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens. This species is Santolina Virens. They are quite small, the one in focus measures about 1.5 cm in diameter.
The knees get a good work out because they are less than a foot above the ground.
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My husband has enjoyed MacroMondays for as many years as I have. He asks the theme and then heads for his computer man cave or garage work space and brings me little tools.
This is a grouping of something called round stock in metric sizes with a twine wrap to keep them together. When in a tight circle they measure about 1 inch/ 2.54cm, but I couldn't quite figure out how to stand them to capture that tight circle. Someday...
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Note: the tree planters have arrived! More trees; back in a moment.
"... Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them...." - by Lawrence M. Krauss
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It's a late one this week, but once I realised this coat button might double up as a mini bowl I couldn't resist and managed a quick session after work today!
The button measures just 2cm. across.
We have a Christmas tradition we call ‘stocking fillers’. Small not very expensive gifts are bought for each other. This is one such from Mrs S. Is she suggesting something?
"Calibrando la Noche".
Created for "Lines and Angles" Challenge in Creative Digital Art Community.
Querétaro-México.
Textures : my own.
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Teil der Widerstandsbank zur Messbereichseinstellung eines alten Vielfachmessgerätes (Siemens & Halske, Herstellungsjahr unbekannt, vermutlich um 1950-1960)
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Part of the resistor bank for setting the measurement range of an old multiple measuring device (Siemens & Halske, year of manufacture unknown, probably around 1950-1960)
Poike, the oldest volcano:
The Poike volcano was the first piece of land that emerged from the sea and, together with subsequent volcanic eruptions, formed the present territory of Easter Island. Its somewhat remote and isolated location and its difficult access make Poike a little-visited place. However, this mysterious territory contains secret corners and ancient legends that invite to discover it calmly and to know better the past of the island.
Poike, the first volcano on the island:
The name of Poike, usually translated by “hill”, seems to come from the Rapanui expression “Po” (night); “ike” (break) which means “place where the night breaks” because it is the first place on the island that receives the first rays of the rising sun.
Indeed, the Poike is located at the eastern end of Easter Island, and is the oldest of the three main volcanoes on the island, next to the Rano Kau and the Ma’unga Terevaka, which originated their formation. It is estimated that this first eruptive center emerged from the sea about 3 million years ago creating the so-called Poike Peninsula, although its activity was maintained until about 300 thousand years ago. Originally this peninsula was an island but later it was joined to the main body of the island, by lava flows coming from the Terevaka and other nearby volcanic centers.
The Poike is now an inactive volcano with a fairly symmetrical cone shape. The main crater has a circular shape and by its resemblance to a halo of sun or moon was called Pua Katiki, although in another version its name would mean “hill that serves to monitor the cattle.” Unlike other craters, this is totally dry and measures around 150 meters in diameter and about 10 meters deep. Inside a small eucalyptus forest grows that crowns the summit like a leafy green plume visible from afar.
From Pua Katiki, where the Poike reaches a maximum height of 460 meters, a wide plain of gentle slope is observed. which covers an area of about 4.5 km from east to west and 3.5 km from north to south. This large area, almost exclusively covered by a type of grass called here hoi (Sporobolus indicus), ends abruptly on 100-meter-high coastal cliffs formed by the continuous erosion of the sea on the Poike peninsula.
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For some unknown reason, during the period of construction of the large statues, considered the golden age of the island, it is believed that the inhabitants of the Poike peninsula remained separate from the others and hardly participated in the work of carving in the quarries of Rano Raraku.
One proof of its isolation is that only two of the statues found in the Poike are made of the lapilli tuff of the Rano Raraku, while the rest of the statues were made of the white trachyte coming from the Poike deposits.
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21km northeast of Hanga Roa.
Nested measuring spoons cropped to under 3 inches. Tabletop with black felt background in available light. Alternate image: flic.kr/p/2iVxh4g
Macro Mondays' weekly theme is: tape.
This is a measuring tape I've used for 20-30 years of sewing. Its wear and tear are showing in the photo.
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." - William Blake
Macro Mondays, Theme: Measurement
For an image where its easier to see the scale, see:
my thoughts on the laowa 65mm:
www.aarondesigns.org/Laowa-65mm-f28-2x-2to1-SuperMacroLens/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a venus optics laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x macro lens
I am using here an adapter and a lens (Helios 44M-7, a 58mm lens) that is not coupled with the camera (Leica M8). So, the camera does not help at all with focussing. Instead, I used a measuring tape, adjusted the lens accordingly and chose a narrow aperture (F11) to increase the chance of achieving good focus. It does work, though this is my first successful shot applying this method. In "real life", I think, I should use a portrait lens that is coupled to the camera.
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 metal micrometer measuring gauge was one of my father's many tools; before his death he gave many of them to my husband. This tool was used for precise measurement and to measure gap widths.
After he and my mother survived active war duty in the army, they went to university. There they became concerned about government and politics the more they learned. Glad they can't see our situation now.
Inspired by #MacroMondays and #father. As shot, except to remove a bit of cyan along an edge. Approximate width 5cm/ 1.97 inches.
NB. I tried for a no-frills or bokeh approach, a more engineering streamlined look. The histogram looks okay...does it look too dark on your monitor?
i think I may branch off a wee bit from the theme days. Here and there mind you. It is only because I am getting a back log in some other areas.
Happy Window Wednesday anyway.....lol
My Closest. Funny things is this little black cat is a mini tape measure, you can just see the tab end at the feet. Happy Monday. HMM
Also a title for a Shakespeare play which was the titles inspiration. A set of 1/4, 1/2, and 1 teaspoon and 1 Tablespoon measuring spoons.
Cheers and HMM !
Baphuon is a Hindu temple located immediate northwest of Bayon in Angkor Thom. It is a massive architecture that measures 120 m by 100 m and 34 m tall plus a 210 m long approach road. It is a typical temple mountain. It would be 50 m tall if the central tower is restored.
Two photos were merged to get this image.
It was constructed in the mid 11th century by Suryavarman I who reigned Angkor Empire from 1006 to 1050. The temple was constructed immediate south of his palace. He was also responsible for the constructions of Preah Vihear on the Thai border, Phimeanakas, Ta Keo and West Baray in Yasodharapura (Angkor Thom).
The temple was largely collapsed by the 20th century. It was restored by disassembling to all the pieces and reassembling them like a 4D jigsaw puzzle, which started in 1996 and completed in 2011.
These squirrels are certainly on the large side measuring up to 16 inches in length. This one photographed near the summit of Logan Pass in Montana was found in their typical mountain habitat.
At the time I took this photograph I didn't posses a zoom lens. As such even with a small crop it can be seen how tame the squirrel was.