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One more trippy pinecone pic from my yard...just pushing the colors/contrast/exposure and such with iphoto....really need to get into Photoshop and also I received Lightzone for Xmas from my good friend Tom...soooo need to get busy and learn some new tricks..:-)
Alternate shot for Macro Monday "Abstract Macro" challenge.
Subject
Dry open pinecone.
Lens
Cosmicar 28mm f2.8 reverse-mounted onto a ProSpec 135mm 2.8. Both lenses have manual aperture control in addition to supporting in-body aperture control. As the lenses have different filter thread sizes, I used a 49mm-52mm male-to-male coupler.
Lighting
Light by a Pentax AF540FGZ in the same plane as the lens, about 70 degrees clockwise around the subject. It is connected using my DIY RJ45 PTTL cable extender.
Built in 1798, the "new" State House is located across from the Boston Common on the top of Beacon Hill and was designed by Charles Bullfinch, the leading architect of the day. The land for the building was originally used as John Hancock's cow pasture. The original wood dome, which leaked, was covered with copper in 1802 by Paul Revere's company. (Paul Revere was the first American to roll copper successfully into sheets in a commercially viable manner.) The dome was first painted gray and then light yellow before being gilded with gold leaf during 1874. During World War II, the dome was painted once again, this time black or gray (depending on the source), to prevent reflection during blackouts and to protect the city and building from bombing attacks. During 1997, at a cost of more than $300,000, the dome was re-gilded, in 23k gold. At the top of the golden dome sits a wooden pinecone representing the importance of the lumber industry to Massachusetts during early colonial times as well as the state of Maine, which provided the lumber to build the State House.
A cool way to view mine or anyone else's photostream is on fluidr.
These pinecones are sitting in a basket at my house. Upon closer inspection, I found one had a little fuzzy (not a spider!).
This ginger lily puts up beautiful flowering cones in the fall here in Florida. I cut these two and put them in a vase in my kitchen.
It's often called "pinecone ginger" because of the shape of these flower cones. The cones also smell a bit like pine trees if you squeeze them.
You can read more about pinecone ginger here.
~Kim
I don't know if these are pinecones or some type of precursor flower, but in all the years, I've never seen such an abundant growth of these on the pine trees that I pass on my lunch time walk. Perhaps it's another artifact of the early spring this year. May 01, 2012 L1200372.dng
A detail from Ronald Gonzalez' installation "Cones" at the DeCordova sculpture park in Lincoln, MA.
This circle of life-sized pinecone people stands silently in the middle of a circle of pine trees. I'm not sure if they're meant to be soldiers or spirits, but I found them to be very powerful.
Taken at one of the shop at Penang while I rest with a drink. =)
Aunty said these are not for selling.. I thought I could buy one though.
Sony a7r + Voigtlander Ultron Vintage Line 35mm F1.7
Painted using a photograph (taken by Ajay Gopal during his many road trips), as reference. The pinecone on the fence was probably his addition to the landscape.
When I found this large pot at a local store called "Great Stuff", I knew it called my name....so I brought it home, painted the pinecones and trim, then filled it---with real cones from the yard, and a bit of sparkle stems!!!
All it needed was, like Charlie Brown's little tree, a bit of love....
It makes me smile and brightens a corner.
A study of the pinecone The Boy brought home with us the other day when we took ourselves to the park on the rare sunny day. When he snuck it into his jacket pocket, the pinecone was closed up tight. Since then, during its short tenure on the kitchen counter, it's been splaying open its little fingers. Kind of crazy to witness.