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Love these pink flowers of Portulaca. Also known as moss rose. This annual is heat tolerant, perfect for us!
Thanks for your visit! HMM!
For Macro Mondays' #pick two theme
Based on blue and paper. Cropped to just within the 3inch rule.
A selection of blue papers
Coneflowers with a ring of yellow stamens on its outer perimeter. Every petal has a stamen. One sees a change in the coneflower everyday, as in color and head size !
Polierter Kieselstein mit Streifen
Für "Macro Mondays"
Thema "Pick Two" am 14.06.2021.
Have a "Happy Macro Monday"
and a good start into the new week.
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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.
and how the old art of paper folding is a source of innovation in engineering (from airbags, packaging, solar sails to protein folding)
This is a close up of a binder clip. I got these clips as Christmas presents and they are just perfect for this theme. I went in close and increased saturation and flipped the image to place the shadows in a more pleasing manner.
Sich verlieben. Auch wenn es nicht zusammen passt.
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I already fell in love with stones when I was very young. I have always brought stones from all the beaches of my travels (and I will continue to do so in the future) and be so small – which is better in flight luggage ;-). And it was the same with writing and drawing (maybe even earlier?) I once received the finest crayons from my parents as a reward (provided, however, that I would no longer paint with my left hand but with my right) – you wouldn't do these days, neither would my parents). You are supposed to go crazy in your head because it twists everything in your brain. Well, I don't notice anything about that, but maybe I feel like normal, even though I might be a lot more normal otherwise? Or less crazy ;-)
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But why don't stones and pencils match? My idea of writing stone with one of my many favourite colours (here a coloured pencil in red) on this beloved (and chosen sweetheart, probably sandstone, I no longer know where it came from) was not so easy to implement – the result is somewhat scrawly ;-) But there was only one attempt at the back and one at the front, erasing was not possible ... So I had to make do with this result – you can read it. Opposites attract each other, but in the future my two loved ones will have to go their separate ways ;-)
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In Steine habe ich mich schon verliebt, da war ich noch ganz klein. Ich habe von allen Stränden meiner Reisen immer Steine mitgebracht (und werde es auch in Zukunft so halten) und seien sie auch noch so klein – was sich im Fluggepäck besser macht ;-). Und mit dem Schreiben und Zeichnen ging es mir ebenso (vielleicht sogar noch früher?) Ich habe einmal als Belohnung die allerfeinsten Buntstifte von meinen Eltern bekommen (allerdings unter der Bedingung, dass ich nicht mehr mit der linken Hand, sondern mit der rechten malen würde – würde man heutzutage nicht mehr machen, meine Eltern auch nicht). Da soll man angeblich verrückt von werden im Kopf, weil sich dadurch alles im Gehirn verdreht. Gut, davon merke ich nichts, aber vielleicht empfinde ich mich eben auch so als normal, obwohl ich vielleicht sonst noch viel normaler wäre? Oder weniger verrückt ;-)
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Aber warum passen Steine und Stifte so gar nicht zusammen? Meine Idee, mit einer meiner vielen Lieblingsfarben (hier ein Buntstift in Rot) auf diesen heißgeliebten (und auserwählten Liebsten, wahrscheinlich Sandstein, ich weiß nicht mehr, woher er stammt) Stein zu schreiben, war gar nicht so leicht umzusetzen – das Ergebnis ist etwas krakelig geraten ;-) Aber es gab nur jeweils einen Versuch auf der Rück- und Vorderseite, radieren ging nicht ... Also musste ich mit diesem Ergebnis Vorlieb nehmen – man kann es ja lesen. Gegensätze ziehen sich zwar an, aber in Zukunft müssen meine beiden Liebsten wohl getrennte Wege gehen ;-)
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Ingredients: Ingredients: stone, colour pencil, daylight
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Zutaten: Stein, Buntstift, Tageslicht
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Nikon Micro-Nikkor-P / 1:3.5 / 55 mm / added Nikkor M2 1:1
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#MacroMondays 2020 / June 29 / #PickTwo / HMM to everyone!
The twisted flowers of the Hamamelis: a perfect subject for this weeks "Pick Two" theme. I chose Twisted Plant. HMM!
metallic insect or jagged insect 😉 my second choice for the theme #PickTwo in #MacroMondays
The rose chafer is not only metallic but also jagged. Beware of the legs! 😉 See Judy ? It's really a suit of armor :D
Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, 20 millimetres (3⁄4 in) long, that has a metallic structurally coloured green
Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro
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Take Two is the theme for Macro Mondays 21. January 2019
combining two themes from separate lists.
...and be sure it`s less than 3 inch... I use always a stencil for measurement.
To create a lustre finish, metallic oxides are applied to the pottery then fired.
All I could get into three inches.
Liquorice or licorice is the root of Glycyrrhiza glabra from which a sweet flavour can be extracted. The liquorice plant is an herbaceous perennial legume native to southern Europe and parts of Asia, such as India. I love it too.
Happy Macro Monday.
Pick Two.
Candy - Licorice
For Macro Mondays - Pick Two - My choice is Twisted/Plant...and almost Abstract ;-)
This is a tendril of passionflower (5 cm).
Macro Mondays - PIck Two
LACPIXEL - 2020
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