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Part of my Daily Dolls House December challenge. Blogged about here: theshoppingsherpa.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/the-endless-sum...
HMS!
Does this one work as a fake miniature? I'm not entirely convinced but I quite like the scene anyway. This is another shot taken from that rock I uploaded a couple of days back.
Join our group Miniature Sunday - HMS! and learn how to make these fake miniature shots!
The daisy is little more than 1cm (1/2 inch) wide.. so the bee is tiny!! It looked like an ant and it was only because I noticed the tiny yellow pollen sacs that I realised it was a bee. It had a large bubble of liquid (saliva?) which it was continually rubbing its front legs through... could it have been mixing it with the pollen?
Thanks to Katarina (kasia-aus) for providing the likely explanation... bees regurgitate nectar and dry it until it reached the right sugar content. That's what the bubble is.
I am finding miniature photography really challenging. Had a few attempts over the past week & am still waiting for some new inspiration, hopefully it will turn up soon!
At only two centimetres in diameter, this continental silver, reverse glass painting and guilloché enamel brooch is a miniature piece of art. Of Austrian origin, it is marked on the reverse with the number 900, it is made of 90% pure silver and is only just shy of 100% quality sterling silver. Many high-end jewellers in Vienna made 900 grade quality silver jewellery for the wealthy upper-middle and upper classes during a period of great economic and cultural growth between the 1890s until the outbreak of the Second World War. Turn of the Twentieth Century Vienna is also famous for its love and support of the Jugendstil movement (the artistic style that arose in Germany and Austria about the mid 1890s and continued through the first decade of the 20th century, deriving its name from the Munich magazine Die Jugend (“Youth”), which featured Art Nouveau designs), through famous institutions such as the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), established in 1903 by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann, and artists like Gustav Klimt and Emilie Louise Flöge who were supported by wealthy patrons and philanthropists like the Bloch Bauer family.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, which incidentally will be the final weekly “Snap Happy” theme before reverting to monthly on the 5th of December, is “anything at all… as long as it is small” which was chosen by me.
The stylised Art Nouveau woman in this brooch is painted in reverse directly onto the glass, an art form with its derivations found in Middle Age Central Europe, which reached its zenith in the 19th Century when painting on glass was widely popular as folk art in Austria, Bavaria, Moravia, Bohemia and Slovakia, but was also taken up by highly skilled artisans who created fine miniatures using single hair brushes. This brooch is one of the latter. The finer details in the forefront of the image you see were painted first using a single hair brush, followed then by the blocks of colour filling out the image using various brush types and thicknesses, building up the image in reverse. This brooch is unusual and was probably more expensive or may been have been a commissioned bespoke piece because it has a brilliant yellow guilloché enamel background. Guilloché is a decorative technique in which a very precise, intricate and repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via engine turning, which uses a machine of the same name, also called a rose engine lathe. This mechanical technique improved on more time-consuming designs achieved by hand and allowed for greater delicacy, precision, and closeness of line, as well as greater speed. Translucent enamel was applied over guilloché metal by Peter Carl Fabergé on the Faberge eggs and other pieces from the 1880s.
Two phases can be discerned in Jugendstil: an early one, before 1900, that is mainly floral in character, rooted in English Art Nouveau and Japanese applied arts and prints; and a later, more abstract phase, growing out of the Viennese work of the Belgian-born architect and designer Henry van de Velde. This brooch is definitely of the pre-1900 phase both because of the image of the young woman in the brooch, but also the foliate filigree work in the silver mount.
Continuing our miniature Oribana project! :-) Folded this mini-version of our Oribana composition "Enticing" - it's just 3 inches (7.5 cm) high. Starring models are Mini-Rose designed by Yuri, Jasmine and Semicircular Vase designed by me. We used washi, hand-made Japanese paper, called "Moriki Kozo" for every element in the composition - the plants and the vase...
Originally posted this art-work in our Oriland facebook page... and I wanted to share it with you here as well :-)
A note for Origami enthusiasts: The diagrams are published in our ENTICING PAPER ROSES eBook
www.oriland.com/store/ebooks/enticing_paper_roses/main.php Happy folding!
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I have been collecting miniature tools for a number of years. I'm still short of a couple to complete my collection but happy with the way it's growing. The wooden rule at top is 2 feet = 600mm to help understand the size of items.
A miniature version of tea time sandwiches Original (top) and miniature (bottom).
Version miniature d'une assiette de sandwiches pour le thé
original (haut) miniature (bas)
polymer clay
1:12 dollhouse scale
Stéphanie Kilgast
Design: Shuzo Fujimoto & Peter Budai
3x3 Grid, 9 tiles, starting paper size: 20 cm / 7.8 in - finished size: 8.5 cm / 3.3 in, 5 levels, smallest petal size: 0.4 cm x 0.7 cm / 0.15 in x 0.27 in. Folded most time with tweezers and toothpick. ;)
This was the actual design that inspired me to start folding Hydrangeas again. As usual, I did not just want to fold the design, but I also wrote up a small article that should help you along, in case you would like to fold this design as well. I drew the CP as well, which should really help you going. The full article is here: origamitutorials.com/origami-miniature-high-density-hydra...
Product from a miniature plant class. Quite a bit of fun.
Background is my monitor loaded with picture of a dreamy moon =D
Overlooking north on Bathurst St. One of TTC's newest bendy bus operating during PM rush hour on the 7 Bathurst towards Bathurst Station.
This series of photographs shows a miniature mud volcano and it's' accompanying miniature mud flow what my family refers to as the "Mud Fairies' Miniature Mud Volcanoes" which are located on the north end of the Microcasm Basin in the Pocket Basin Mud Pots in the Lower Geyser Basin. The first 5 photos show a gas bubble forming and bursting in a shallow miniature mud volcano (small coned mudpots). The gas bubble sometimes times cause their mud to flow out of the central crater and down the sides form mudflows. In this pictures several flows of different ages can be seen. The last 3 photos show the details of one of these accompanying flows.
The Engine section of this small Train which takes Visitors to and from the Railway Museum at York to the Minster,
A series of photos I took at my friend's home, which she and her family turned into a miniature Christmas wonderland.
The wooden tools pictured here were beautifully made by hand by master woodworker Frank Weisner in Australia. I have waited a few months to get them, but they are certainly worth the wait. To give an idea of scale, the sewing frame in the center is only 7 inches wide. The most coveted tool is the lying press and plow on the left, which is used to trim the edges of the book block before the covers are added. The standing press will come in handy to apply the initial pressure necessary after glueing the covers. The other tools on the right are a corner rounder which is not much used in miniature bookmaking (it was sitting on the shelf so whatthehell), and lastly my Schärff-Fix leather skiver which is a must have tool for leather binding.
picture frame and table by PDR
miniature camera by canon
plant and carpet from dolls house emporium
organic chair from japan
I am having way too much fun with the simple dollhouse. I had the luck to find a little plaque in a box of stuff I bought at a sale, and decided that it might do as a miniature table! Legs? I suddenly thought about pegs! Faved some on Amazon and THEN? I turned around in the art studio- and there was a brand new pack of wooden pegs that I don't think I have ever seen! NO idea where that came from! I had to dremmel off the peg end, but the height worked just right!!
I have to admit I am more lacking in the furnishings ideas . . . Where I lack in this, I am making up for in the little conservatories/greenhouses I am making! Oh my! Stay tuned!! :)
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Canon 5d Mark II
Canon 17-40mm
Lee soft gnd 0.9
ISO 50, 21mm, f/16, 1'
Manuel focus using Live view where I zoom in 100%
One RAW file processed in Photoshop CS5
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Things are happening in Dan’s photo-life these days. A lot actually!
As mentioned, I upgraded to the Canon 5d mark II and the Canon 17-40mm a few days ago
And I love my new gear!
If you haven’t checked out the new, really great web based landscape photography magazine
you really should. Two issues have been launched so far and it seems to be an amazing project fully dedicated to landscape photography. Great reading!
The reason why I mention this magazine is that I’ve written an article which will be published in the fifth issue! I’m writing about a location I’ve been shooting before and the article will include these three photos I’ve taken:
chords from a descending sun traces of fire and three in a row
My last upload will also be on the front cover in the 18’Th issue. That’s pretty cool!
Just have to be patient ;)
The photograph
When you come to “Verdens Ende” (world’s end) the first thing that meats you’re eye is a little charming marina. The light lit up three sailboats laying friendly in a row and it shure was a beautiful sight. Which I got a few pictures from by the way ;)
When you walk further you get to a bridge that takes you to a tine little island. I got a couple of shots from this bridge as well ;)
From there you can climb and jump from isle to isle searching for places to photograph. Some of these small isles are pretty large and can give you a great view.
As I was wandering around in this beautiful location I found a spot I instantly fell in love with.
I’m very pleased with how the photo turned out. I called it “miniature lake” as I kind of think it looks just like that – A lake surrounded by mountains, a beach in the foreground and a forest on the right side. It makes me feel pretty big!
Hope you guys like it. Every comment and fav means the world to me.
The location
This place is called Verdens ende which means Worlds end. It’s a beautiful place and it really feels like the worlds end. It takes about 40 minutes of driving from my home to get there and I’ve been thinking of shooting on this location for a few months. So it was perfect to go here on my first session with my new gear. There are tons of possibilities here and a lot of fun for a photographer. I will definitely go back one day!
Katie is our Miniature Schnauzer that we rescued from the Humane Society nine years ago. She is somewhere between 11 and 13 years old.