'Nuts ' wasn't quite my choice of vocabulary first thing this morning after I'd noticed the full moon setting behind the trees in a neighbouring street. Why? you might ask..... it was because after taking a 6 shots of varying focal length and 'protecting ' them on my camera with the intent of deleting the other 300 shots , in my haste, I went and formatted the card instead - thus losing every single shot. The result is this - a grab shot of a dish of Brazil Nuts on my sideboard :-)

Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), Florida, USA

Chicago

Macro Mondays. Nuts

Your power

In this shot, I have selected nuts, walnuts and almonds,

for the weekly challenge. I hope you like it. Overall shot is 6.2 cm wide by 4.3 cm high.

I wanted to represent with the theme of Billie Eilish, "Your power", the power of the nuts during their lifetime of use, as a metaphor.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzeWc3zh01g

Billie Eilish - Your Power (Official Music Video)

Sé que no elegimos cambiar

puede que no quieras perder tu poder

pero poseerlo es tan extraño,

..... Ella dijo que eras un héroe,

que hiciste el papel pero lo rompiste en un año.....

I know we don't choose to change

you may not want to lose your power

But owning it is so strange

..... She said you were a hero,

that you played the role but you tore it in a year .....

Je sais que nous ne choisissons pas de changer

vous ne voudrez peut-être pas perdre votre pouvoir

Mais le posséder est si étrange

..... Elle a dit que tu étais un héros,

que vous avez joué le rôle mais que vous l'avez déchiré en un an .....

So che non scegliamo di cambiare

potresti non voler perdere il tuo potere

Ma possederlo è così strano

..... Ha detto che eri un eroe,

che hai interpretato il ruolo ma l'hai strappato in un anno .....

María

Macro Mondays " Nuts "

Thank you so much for your kind words, faves and invitations to groups! I really appreciate each of them !!!

Explored on 3rd May 2021

sold my Canon EOS 7d m2 and Canon EOS R last year as I decided that my Canon R6 would do both jobs I ask of my Canon kit, local landscape and big wave chasing. I used the 7d in combination with my EF100-400mm 4.5/5.6 L for the waves but in low light which usually coincided with stormy weather I couldn’t really push the photos passed 400iso, so I thought the R6 would fix that. Unfortunately I lost the focal length expecting a full frame to do the same job, even with the 1.4x extender attached it was unsatisfactory. So I ordered a R7 on the announcement of the release, three month later I cancelled that order as they was no sign of getting my hands on one. However in December they became available and I managed to get one. What with one thing or another this year I’ve not really been able to use the camera so to fix that I took it around my local park last week armed with the ultralight RF100-400 and some monkey nuts.

Almonds in a green dish. For Macro Mondays: Nuts and my POTD.

Can,t wait for the Nuts to Fall.

An eastern grey squirrel eating an acorn in the backyard Garry oak tree. Saanich, Vancouver Island, BC.

During the autumn and winter months, the eastern grey squirrel’s diet consists mainly of nuts and seeds. Throughout the year, tree squirrels store large quantities of seeds and nuts, especially acorns to see them through the winter months.

Tree squirrels are one of the most important animals for helping oaks spread, because they store acorns in the ground, helping to maintain and regenerate second-growth oak forests.

Created for the LCoF "Nuts" theme I searched my stash of single nuts that I have saved "just in case" they were ever needed. I was struck with the idea that "Hex Nuts" were a sort of family so I sorted out several with the same "family characteristics" which I determined to be Hex shaped and chromed. I could have selected a "rusty" family or "brassy's" or "squares" or ... well I was just about out of time so selected what appeared the easiest path to Look Close Today.

Total width of this family portrait is 2". They are set up on a piece of orange construction paper hoping to get a color contrast and reflections. It was necessary to use a stack of 30 images to capture the textures and life history imprinted in the "faces" as well as the sharp edges of the working parts of the nuts.

Enjoy Looking Close on this Friday!

Gum nuts on a Silver Princess at Coburg Lake Reserve

Zane

Nuts & bolts construction board we gave to his brother, Orson, for his birthday a couple of years ago.

salty peanuts combined with some sweet chiliheat...

Romania - Pribilesti

I will need to explain this one as none of this looks like a number nine and neither is there nine items in the photo.

I got into computers quite a few years ago just for fun and learnt a bit of COBOL/Machine code programming and how to use them. So for this theme I had the idea of representing the number nine in a binary way.

For this I didn't really want to photograph writing on a piece of paper and after a while I came up with the idea of showing the binary 1's and 0's using nuts.

As a basic explanation computers understand only 1's and 0's, on and off. The more of these that are grouped together the more powerful the computer. There are 8 nuts in the photo and each nut represents a bit. The whole setup represents a byte.

Starting from the very right the value of the bit is 1. If the bit is turned on then this is added to the whole value of the byte. The next one to the left would be a value of 2. The one to the left of that is a value of 4. Each bit has a value of double the one to the right of it. So the value of bits in a byte are from the left - 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2 and 1.

In the photo the nuts that are facing the camera are representing a 0 and the ones turned sideways are representing 1.

So from the left 128 = 0, 64 = 0, 32 = 0, 16 = 0, 8 = 1, 4 = 0, 2 = 0 and 1 = 1. So here 8 plus 1 is equal to 9.

I used the smallest nuts that would fit in the photo and the whole setup is 7cm across.

I did do a version with an extra nut in the frame just in case this is not deemed valid.

Converted to Black and White as there was no colour in the photo anyway.

I couldn't resist and used f/9 as the aperture.

...nuts...

For the Crazy Tuesday challenge: Goes together like -- Nuts and Bolts.

Happy Crazy Tuesday!

Possible for Macro Mondays: One Colour

for Macro Mondays group. HMM!

The squirrels at the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield in Yorkshire are more then happy to pose, they even come to you.

Measuring a nut with a Vernier Caliper.

Specially created for the Macro Monday's Theme "Rule " . Thanks my Friends . : )

Rather than the edible type I chose metal nuts for this weeks theme. Quite like it.

Outfit:

*Tay-Lay-Designs*

Marketplace:

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Mainstore:

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Flickr:

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The young squirrel is having some nuts for breakfast.

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Crazy Tuesday theme: “NUTS”

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Nuts & Raisins

A squirrel's dream

Experiment my Sony:)

Well, not exactly...

Even though you might confuse those as stones whose shells can be cracked open to reveal pine nuts, those are the edible fruits of the "Swiss stone pine" (Pinus cembra).

They are a bit rounder than the pine nuts, but can be enjoyed like those latter, in salad, pesto or as a healthy snack.

Zedernkerne haben nichts mit dem Zeder zu tun... Sie sind die Früchte der Zirbelkiefer, der in den Alpen und in den Karpaten zu Hause ist. Wer noch mehr Verwirrung mag, kann sich noch merken, dass die auch russische Pinienkerne genannt werden.

Wie die Pinienkerne, sind die Zirbelkerne extrem gesund und schmecken hervorragend, mit einem leichten harzigen Geschmack.

Bien qu'ils ressemblent à des pignons de pin, les "pignons de cèdre" sont plus petits et plus ronds que ceux-ci. Ils ont leur propre goût et un arôme très particulier. Ils proviennent des cônes du pin parasol (Pinus Cembra), qui du point de vue botanique n'a rien à voir avec le cèdre.

Porto Walkabouts

About Nuts :)

I had a whole bunch of these nuts (with matching bolts) hanging around. Finally got to make some use of them!

Taken at my new vole place at walton gardens

There are several parks in Łódź and squirrels live in all of them. They also live in all possible places in the city, where they can find some trees to live in and oaks to find food. BUT the squirrels in this particular park, Park im. księcia Józefa Poniatowskiego w Łodzi, are absolutely used to the fact that nuts grow on people. They follow people, check our bags, looking for food, they come very close to check if we have something for them :-) they are unbelievably cute :-) Those who know this prak, perfectly know the cute squirrels :-)

Squirrel

Crown or castle nut on the wheel bearing of a train wheel from a centuries old car. All of this weeks uploaded nuts are from a stroll through the train yard, including the miniature still life. Walnut, flower, square nut and hex nut