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Theme: "Numbers and Letters"

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Guitar amp buttons 🎸

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Taken for Macro Mondays

Shot hand-held using the Godox TT350F flash with a cheap flash diffuser.

Macro Mondays theme: Numbers and Letters

Our tiny garden is emerging from a few fabric grow bags in which I planted carrots, lettuce, Swiss chard and green onions. Since there was a lot of extra space in the onion bag I seeded the other half with the rest of the chard seeds. I couldn't figure out why only the Swiss chard in that bag (red - see picture in comments) had a crop of grass growing around it and why none of my onions were coming up. When I pulled up a couple of blades of the grass I discovered they were miniature onions. I could blame it on wind drift, careless watering or creative birds, but the most likely scenario is that I doubled up planting on one side. Oh, well. I have since planted a new bag of onions. :)

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This postage stamp was issued in 1898 when Newfoundland was a separate country before it joined Canada in 1949 as the 10th province.

The picture on the stamp is the Prince of Wales at the time (Edward) who shortly afterwards became King Edward VII in 1901 upon the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

Treasure Island, Las Vegas, Nevada

Trump's Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Macro Mondays : Numbers and Letters

Detail of an old Voigtländer

Macro Monday's and the theme of "Numbers and Letters".

For this theme I decided that I wanted to use a subject that was translucent. First I examined a few empty bottles to search for anything that was molded onto them.

Eventually I decided on a lightbulb as I knew these also have letters and numbers on them.

I set up a lightbulb in front of my laptop screen which was displaying a simple gradient. I also used black card and my black jacket to block as many reflections as possible.

Macro Mondays - Numbers and Letters Theme

Laowa 60/2.8 macro lens

Antique stamps from my great grandfather's aircraft factory hammered into a piece of wood.

90's Sony Clie Personal Digital Assistant. Done for Macro Mondays, theme Numbers and Letters.

K.K.W. table lighter in the shape of a vintage camera (with built in compass). These were first manufactured in 1948 in occupied Japan and made until the 1960s. They sit on a little tripod and are worked by the shutter button. The lighter is 6.7cm wide. I found this example in the window of an antique shop in Lewes

Macro Mondays: Letters and numbers

The inscribed rear of a mourning ring (the front having a small piece of the subjects hair mounted in it) for Ann Hodgson, who died 12th May 1826, aged 54. The ring is for a small finger, being about 19mm (3/4") internal diameter. The ring has come to us from my wife's side of the family, but as yet I have been unable to trace the link.

"Divine exquisitely rich dark chocolate."

Numbers and Letters for Macro Mondays. I bought an old camera at the annual camera club auction several years ago. I have since heard that the Zenit-E with it's Helios lens is quite sought after. One day I'll get an adaptor to use the lens on my Canon DSLR. Meanwhile, it provides a suitable subject for the challenge this week...

Lens filter size is 49mm. so this is definitely within the 3" rule.

Macro Mondays Numbers and Letters theme

Numbers & Letters

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I stream video, but I don't stream music. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I'll watch a certain movie only so and so often, with long breaks before I'll watch it again, but if it's a favourite song or record / CD, or a favourite band, I will listen to that again and again before it's another song's / band's or musician's turn. And I guess I want this to be "my" music, something that, via the recording medium, is within my space, physically. Not just bits and bytes out there in that infinite, impersonal, kind of lost world of data. Not to mention nicely made "Deluxe Editions" with interesting covers, booklets, and info which all add another aspect to the music I'm listening to.

So this is a CD. My first idea was to capture the tiny info that is lasered onto the backside of a CD (the part around the hole), but all the results looked kind of boring. But then I found a CD where some of the song titles were so long that some of them were actually printed onto the part next to the CD's hole. And since that part of the CD is also translucent, I had both "letters" (from the song title), and, mirror-inverted, "numbers" and more letters from the backside of the CD in my image. I've again used the extension tubes to get nicely close to all these numbers and letters. The image is an in-camera focus stack, processed in DXO PhotoLab and Analog Efex, with a slight sharpening in Sharpen AI.

HMM, Everyone, and Sing A Simple Song this week ;)

I chose Maori letters and numbers for the Numbers and Letters challenge because, starting from Friday July 2nd, it is the time of Matariki. Matariki is both the name of the Pleiades star cluster and also of the season of its first rising in late June or early July. This is a marker of the beginning of the new year. the Maori New Year in New Zealand.

1=Kotahi, 2=Rua, 3=Toru

I've used cash three times in the last 16 months.

Macro Mondays: Number and Letters

Good to know. When shooting a true macro. My frame is 1 inch and 8 or 9 little black lines :)

184/365

Vintage Pentax ME Super. Around 50 years old I think.

When I was actively involved with archery I was privileged to be a member of the Royal Toxophilite Society based in Buckinghamshire, UK.

The image is part of a small car badge.

A Toxophilite is a person who loves shooting with a bow and arrow.

Macro Mondays theme: Numbers and Letters

Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊

DIMM memory card from a laptop

A tilted lens

1:1 macro shot of a detail of my workhorse lens for architecture, the 19mm f/4 tilt-shift. I never realized the relief was so high... nor so dirty! It’s a shame, as I clean the lens thoroughly (or so did I think) after every shooting...

Composite photograph made up of 70 focus-stacked exposures, set using the built-in function on the Nikon Z7. Stack processed with Helicon Focus, Method C.

Shot for my Macro Mondays group, “Numbers and Letters” theme.

Strobist and technical: one Phottix Pro Indra500 monolight on a Profoto light stand in Rembrandt position to camera left, 1 meter from subject and 0.5 meter above it, firing at full power through a Phottix Pro 110–cm Luna octabox with double diffuser; white card reflector to camera right.

Strobe set and triggered via Phottix Pro Odin II radio controller on the Nikon Z7 hot shoe, manual mode. Sekonic L–858D light meter used to balance light sources. Gitzo GT3543XLS tripod with Arca–Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Nikon Z7 camera body, Micro–Nikkor Z MC 105mm f/2.8 S macro lens.

Thank you in advance for your views, favs and comments. HMM.

Thank you for the faves, comments and visits!! HMM :-)

A Five Cent Coin From The USA.

Leah Goldberg, poet. There was not a lot of writing on the bill.

Macro Mondays

Numbers and Letters

An old shell I don't think I would even try to fire it. That thing is ancient. 50 mm lens with aperture control used as an extender.

For "Macro Mondays" - theme : "Numbers and Letters".