For the Macro Mondays theme: "Corner".

An experiment in folding with a piece of very strong metallic paper…I didn't got the end result I wanted it to have, but I'm glad I took a photo of this in-between step.

Happy Macro Monday ;-))

HMM to all participants!

Dear friends, thank you all for your views, comments and faves!

A more closer look of "Pattern" (see first comment box). The texture reminds me of stone, so I did some processing to emphasize that.

The paper I used is 'glassine', which is great photogenic paper because of its translucency.

These beautiful flowers were made by a friend of mine, out of paper!

hss !

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** Thank you so much to **

Zibska for NEO-Japan A/W22**

Hitomi Lips - lips in 18 colours in 3 transparencies

Hitomi set - includes visor & orbits and shoulder left and right with 16 colours for sections 1/2/3/4 via HUD.

This and more in Neo Japan event maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GABRIEL3/138/128/500

Zibska inworld

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" Lost in skies of powdered gold

Caught in clouds of silver ropes

Showered by the empty hopes

As I tumble down, falling fast to the ground

I know I'll wither so peel away the bark

'Cause nothing grows when it is dark

In spite of all my fears, I can see it all so clear

I see it all so clear

Woah

Cover your crystal eyes

And feel the tones that tremble down your spine

Woah

Cover your crystal eyes

And let your colours bleed and blend with mine

Making waves in pitch black sand

Feel the salt dance on my hands

Raw and charcoal coloured thighs

Feel so cold and my skin feels so paper-thin... "

- OF MONSTERS AND MEN -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-PgPZ3F9P4

Thank you so much in advance my dear friends for the faves, awards and comments. Forgive me if I cant respond sometimes. For sure and 100% I read all your comments and always so grateful for it. Take care my sweet friends. Hugs to all 💞

Just White Paper for Macro Mondays

My 'Mohave White' Paper Daisies.

aka Bracteantha Strawflowers.

'Xerochrysum bracteantha'

Native to Australia.

My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L lens.

Processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photo Pad Pro by NCH software.

Collage by PhotoPad Pro.

During the folding phases of an new tessellation, before flattening the paper completely, this form occurred. A paper-secret that reveals it selves while folding. It reminded me a of star to be born ;-)) Because it is to fragile to stay this way, I just took a photo of this phase and continued folding ;-)

Looking Close on Friday - Week 2 Crown

A golden paper crown, left over from a Christmas cracker.

Paper bird made to stick on a card

A few young guys were playing around (taking photos / video clips) with these paper boats in the breakwater of the East Cost Park Precinct.

This photo let me remember of the old Cantonese song 《紙船》 [Paper Boat], released in 1982, by the famous Hong Kong Cantopop singer / songwriter / actor Sam Hui ( 許冠傑).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUdbUFzVqNg

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《紙船》

作曲/填詞：許冠傑 (1982)

路經海邊見隻小船

懷人萬里心暗酸

異鄉的她腦海湧現

如何把相思串

拾起張紙摺隻小船

徐徐地放於水面

靜心閉目許個願

船兒匆匆飄遠

望船實踐我這個願

遙遙長路也不倦

直去到她身邊

只求跟她一見

若她終於見隻紙船

盤旋夢裡千百轉

望她珍惜當中意義

齊齊把相思串

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[Paper Boat]

Composed/lyrics by Sam Hui (1982).

Lyrics (an unofficial English translation from internet, not singable):

Walking pass the seaside, ( I ) see a small boat

Remind me of that person, thousands of miles away, make me feel sad inside

(Image of) her who is in foreign land rush into my mind

How to make our hearts connect

Pick up a piece of paper and fold a little boat

Gently lay it down on the water

Clear my mind, close my eyes and make a wish

(Watching) the little (paper) boat quickly floats afar

I hope the (paper) boat could fulfill this wish of mine

Tirelessly travel long way away

Straight to her side

Only hope to see her once

if she finally see a paper boat

Drifting in circle endlessly in her dream

Hope she could cherish the meaning of it

Together, let's make our hearts connect

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For 'Smile on Saturday', theme: gift wrapping material. I chose rolls of Japanese paper. So colourful.

Avec de l'imagination, mes petites lamelles de papier m'ont aidé à construire un monde coloré à la texture tout en douceur qui devrait aider à la recherche d'une vie plus harmonieuse. #Macro #MacroMondays #UnusualPatterns

In this phase you can see it better how many pre-folds had to be made. It took two days to do it.

This pre-folding does not apply to all origami models.

I made a kind of blue print. ;-))

If you want you still can make suggestions what it will be…….

What you see here is an in-between-step of an origami ….???

I made a little series about it: Paper Art:

- Paper Art 1

- Paper Art 2

- Paper Art 3

Update:

Model: origami Hedgehog

Design: Kouji Nakagawa

Diagrams in Tanteidan Convention Book #8

Paper: 35x35cm brownish elephant-hide paper.

Final size: height 5cm, width 12cm, length 12cm

if you want to see more photos of this origami model, please visit my Origami - Kouji Nakagawa album.

A beauty in black and white.

~ ~ ~

Paper handmade in Vienna for Paperlovers

Little paper Japanese paper doll. So cute! For Macro Mondays. This week's theme: paper art. HMM

For the Macro Mondays theme"Begins with the Letter P": Pre-creasing paper for folding.

When you fold with vellum, the creases becomes white lines. The vellum gets actually damaged and the risk it might tear is very big, so it is necessary to fold with great care.

HMM for everyone ;-)

There were so many things to try. Everthing I tried I was liking. The closer I got. The better it was.

Happy Macro Mondays

Studioshot

Shredded paper. HMM

Boungainvillea or " Paper flower "

Have an excellent Wednesday !

Thanks everyone !

For Looking Close... on Friday! theme: "Made of paper"

Dress : Miwas - School Love Gacha. At The Epiphany.

Hair with beret : Wasabi - Rainbow. At The Epiphany.

Head : Catwa - Catya

Skin : Glam Affair - Sienna applier for Catwa. At Soiree.

Decor :

Paper Dragon, colored envelopes, fortune candy (mouth), candy plate, mandarin trees : Kotte - Xin Nian Gacha. At Shiny Shabby

Stalls : Maru Kado - Tawamure Gacha. At The Epiphany.

My favourite notebook has the most colorful paper.

HMM!

Each paper roll is .625" wide. Total image is 2.43' wide.

Handmade paper rose in tiny salt cellar ~~ Macro Mondays

This week's theme for Mosaic Montage Monday was paper. This one looks like it's sailing into the unknown! HMMM!

and all, all my love is here

from the garden

to the shadows

every heartbeat

♬ belongs to you ♬

the things:

Konoha - Iris valarie

Konoha - wild grass

both @ Konoha

Ariskea [Birdy] Stone Bird Bath

A Paper Wasp standing guard over the larvae in it's nest. Photographed in Maryland.

Created for Macro Mondays, theme paper; not my best paper boat (I'm not good in it), small yellow paper boat on a small globe, with green reflection (blue would have been better)

Taken for the Macro Mondays theme of 'Paper Art'.

This is a close up of a bead on a necklace. The beads are made from strips of paper (which you can see if you look closely)

For Macro Mondays and Pick Two.

This week's Macro Mondays theme is to pick two, one from each list.

The colours:

Red

Blue

Yellow

Pink

The items:

Flower

Bottle Cap

Paper

Pen

...and combine them in a macro photo. This is a thin, cellophane-like, translucent paper that made folding difficult for me. All one hue, but the lights make it look like many.

About 4cm /1.5 inches across.

My husband prefers this one. He isn't keen on abstract or bokeh balls.

Thanks for looking.

Chewing on some wood, as wasps do...

Happy birthday, my dear wife...!

[We'll play with a paper plane,

being so occuped with our paper problems...]

This week's theme for Mosaic Montage Monday was Torn Paper.

Remembering back to an art class in college, the professor wanted to teach us how to train our eyes to see Grayscale. So he asked us to simply tear out 10 pieces of paper from a newspaper and arrange them according to their intensity value, then glue them onto black construction paper.

Nowadays, all my newspapers have color pictures, so I used an old magazine that was already cut up. Now, I always have a Grayscale reference! If you try it, don't forget to play with the scraps, too! HMMM!

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