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I’ve always been rather attracted to this Papermate propelling pencil because of its transparent barrel and the details of the spiral mechanism for extruding the graphite. Oh, and the colour… So I could hardly resist when the spiral topic came around again for Macro Mondays.
A bit of a rush job though - one take and then a patch-up in the processing. Had I had more time I think I would have used a tripod and focus stacking (or a different lens). Ah well…
This is vaguely what I intended, or at least an inch and half of it anyway. The full pencil is more interesting :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays :)
Rather bedraggled female Little Owl shot from the Summer 2019 just after the 2 chicks/owlet's had fledged :-)
The red-bellied woodpecker is rather misleadingly named -- the conspicuous red color is not on this bird’s belly, but rather on its head and neck. Males have a striking red forehead, cap and nape, while females have a red nape. Both sexes have bold black and white bars on the back.
Red-bellied woodpeckers pick at bark rather than drilling for insects. They eat seeds, insects, and fruit and often feed on oranges in Florida’s orange groves. Red-bellies are regular visitors to bird feeders where they aggressively chase off other birds.
Red-bellied woodpeckers are notorious for drumming on metal and wood siding around houses. When trying to attract a mate they will tap on anything that resonates, including metal gutters, TV antennas, and even cars.
I found this female in Polk County, Florida.
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Meet Ezekiel... my new created witch. It won´t be the last time I will do outfits for him...Kinda digging this red hair with black combination :D
Hope you enjoy this look <3
Rather a difficult challenge to make a macro of a calendar ... we have a large wall one, small one-day-a-page ones, and everything else is digital! So I decided to play around with a sheet of the 2021 months ... and ended up with a 3cm cube. ;o)
Macro-Looking Close: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here
A rather turbulent looking and somewhat elongated cloud, skirts the surface of the ocean and touches the crest of Pender Island. Above and behind, the swift moving higher clouds also reveal a warm light. Just another pleasant day in Sechelt with some new discoveries including a lone duck.
A rather handsome cock Greenfinch from my garden vigil this week. I've built a new bird table to get some different shots other than bird-on-a-stick so watch this space.
'The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.'
-William Somerset Maugham-
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방탄소년단 (BTS )COVER - DYNAMITE
"Bts It's a great Korean group. I really admire it. !!
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Cos ah ah I’m in the stars tonight
So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight
Shoes on get up in the morn
Cup of milk let’s rock and roll
King Kong kick the drum rolling on like a rolling stone
Sing song when I’m walking home
Jump up to the top LeBron
Ding dong call me on my phone
Ice tea and a game of ping pong
This is getting heavy
Can you hear the bass boom, I’m ready
Life is sweet as honey
Yeah this beat cha ching like money
Disco overload I’m into that I’m good to go
I'm diamond you know I glow up
Hey, so let’s go
Cos ah ah I’m in the stars tonight
So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight
Shining through the city with a little funk and soul
So I’mma light it up like dynamite, woah
Bring a friend join the crowd
Whoever wanna come along
Word up talk the talk just move like we off the wall
Day or night the sky’s alight
So we dance to the break of dawn
Ladies and gentlemen, I got the medicine so you should keep ya eyes on the ball, huh
This is getting heavy
Can you hear the bass boom, I’m ready
Life is sweet as honey
Yeah this beat cha ching like money
Disco overload I’m into that I’m good to go
I'm diamond you know I glow up
Let’s go
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I found this rather unique looking angular shape made of ideally positioned rocks for my foreground. It had the oceans waves washing over it, and helped deliver a softness to the forepart of the image. As well, the evening once again delivered soft palettes of warm colors on the horizon circling the distant island.
All this came after enjoying dinner on the beach and being witness to another peaceful close to another day in Sechelt.
A juvenile Stellar's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) in our Empress tree!
Looking rather fluffy in it's new feathers!
"I'd rather be a lover than a fighter, 'cause all my life i've been fighting.
Never felt a feeling of comfort, all this time I've been hiding.
I'm in need of a savior, but i'm not asking for favors, my whole life i've felt like a burden... I think so much and i hate it..
I'm tired of caring..."
Taken in Green Story
It has been a long time to not see you. Around seven years and you came to my life again. Still want to carry me with you?
You took my life and happiness during the days it supposed to be happy. Now why you're back?
Thanks for rememberme the nightmare of being in the hole.
I can just give you three of my days but not all me...not yet.
A rather elegant flower that I spotted in a local park last fall. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Background texture from Topaz Studio 2.
Thank you for your visits and comments, they're all greatly appreciated.
Gannets or rather Northern Gannets (morus bassanus) are native to the coasts of the North Atlantic. 60-70% of the world's population nest around the coast of the UK. Preferred nesting sites are on coastal hillsides and cliffs.
Famed for their super-fast dives into the sea, from a height of 30m they can hit the water at speeds of up to 60mph. Apart from having a stream-lined bodies, to help cushion the impact they have an extensive network of air-sacs between their muscles and skin.
Adult pairs are monogamous and may remain together over several seasons, if not for live. They separate when their chicks leave the nest but bond again the following year. Bonding is reinforced by characteristic head-caressing movements.
... People may rather see you extinguished.
A heavy presence of invasive, unwanted grasses in this field that manage to still look pretty beneath the sun rays. Make the most of what you're working with, I guess
(This is not one of our fields, I must add! 😄)
A rather showy bloom for which I added a background texture in Topaz Studio 2.
Thank you so much for your views and comments, they're all appreciated! Have a great day!
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Rather dark day at the sea. But they had superb food and the atmosphere was perfect. If you look closely you can see people dining in the lowest main window.
A rather better shot than the previous one posted of this species. A raven of mountain country in eastern and southern Africa. From a slide.
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Colours even rather vibrant
Can hide you against any Tyrant
This Bee feeds on a Sunflower
Under Cover of its Colour’s Power
Always better not to be seen
Even if you are a Queen
(Caren)
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
😄 Happy Macro Wednesday 😄
Taken in a Wild Garden in West Wales (Ceredigion) and uploaded for
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1/1600Sec
ISO 100
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A rather dry summer has caused water levels to drop significantly across the state including here at Moose Bay. Aside from a bit of mud, I was able to walk out fairly far along the shore to shoot a wider shot of CP 251 heading west behind CP 8867 and CP 8847.
Walburgiskapelle Weschnitz - Erntedank oder privates Thanksgiving?
Die Walburgiskapelle befindet sich im Wald auf dem Kahlberg, einer historischen Stelle, an der Kaiser Karl der Große im Jahr 795 die Grenzen seines Reiches und die der Mark Heppenheim festlegte.
Schon im 16 Jh. ist an diesem Platz eine Kapelle nachgewiesen - wann sie erstmals gebaut wurde, weiß man nicht.
Die Kapelle ist der heiligen Walburga geweiht, die eine Nichte des Missionars Bonifatius gewesen sein soll. Manche glauben, der Platz könnte zuvor ein keltisches und germanisches Bergheiligtum gewesen sein. In der Tat widmeten christliche Missionare oft heidnische Kultplätze um, statt sie zu zerstören.
Für die Kelten-These spricht, dass man Reste von Erzbergbau gefunden hat, den schon die Kelten betrieben.
Auch heute noch finden Wallfahrten zu dieser Kapelle statt - ein magischer Platz mit einer fantastischen Aussicht.
The Walburgis Chapel is located in the forest on the Kahlberg, a historical spot where Emperor Charlemagne defined the borders of his empire and the Mark Heppenheim in 795.
There is evidence of a chapel on this site as early as the 16th century - no one knows when it was first built.
The chapel is dedicated to St. Walburga, who is said to have been a niece of the missionary Boniface. Some believe the site may have previously been a Celtic and Germanic mountain sanctuary. Indeed, Christian missionaries often rededicated pagan places of worship rather than destroying them.
The Celtic thesis is supported by the fact that remains of ore mining, which the Celts already operated, have been found.
Pilgrimages to this chapel still take place today - a magical place with a fantastic view.
A rather unimposing shot of this landmark, Old Rag is part of Shenandoah National Park. it is the most hiked mountain in the Eastern United States. Since Covid, crowds have overwhelmed the trail to the point where you must now apply for a ticket to climb on a specified date.
here at the homestead I'd rather throw all the various Lavender 47 variety's together in one big massive explosion.
Of course I'm cultivating by the bunch and not the ton so I can....
A rather unproductive week photowise.
Started a new job after being invited to the world of redundancy, found it didn’t quite live up to its part time description...7 to 8hrs per day instead of 4.
Something has triggered another deliciously agonising episode of g**t, so I’m at a bit of a lower ebb than normal...
...in addition our holiday to Spain has been knocked on the head due to a rising spike in Covid...oh the effin joys.
So this pic is an alternative take on an earlier posting for which I do not apologise.
Anyone from the UK and of a certain vintage may well associate the image with Hovis bread and the strains of the New World Symphony.
I had a lot of photography planned for the weekend, I was going to visit a few places in Wales, and then a few in Dorset. But on Wednesday I was hit with a rather nasty bout of the lurgy and didn't have the energy to do anything. So I decided to have a few days rest and not venture out with the camera.
On my way home from Dorset yesterday I stopped at Portland hoping for a decent sunset. it was extremely windy and the sunset was pretty decent so I managed to get a few photos from the visit.
My first shot is of Pulpit Rock, an old favourite, as it's such fun watching the waves crash up here. We couldn't get down to the bottom level last night as we'd have gotten soaked, and there were people silly enough to be out on the rock when some huge waves were crashing over, so we sat higher up and tried our best to get a decent shot.
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Rather large, dark grey-brown goose with typically small orange patch on bill, and orange legs. In flight lacks contrasting pale forewing areas of Pink-footed Goose and Greylag Goose. Not always safely told in the field from Taiga Bean Goose, but Tundra averages a shorter and thicker bill, vs. the longer, more sloping bill of Taiga. Breeds on tundra and winters in farmland and wetlands, where it associates readily with other geese.
I had put this climbing rose branch in a jar leaning against my windowsill, when all of a sudden I realized it looked rather like I should take a pic... I had intended using it in another shot but this looked rather charming!
texture ... my own
Thanks so much for your visit!!
I have rather worked 'blind' with it. Just trying to work out how the Pep Ventosa method it was achieved and trying things out.... I am about to watch a recording though, showing how the 366/180 deg photos are actually taken. I hope that will improve things! I love experimentation even if I fail!
My first attempts at the Pep Ventosa method of taking photographs 'in the round'
A rather indifferent Charles II on the King's Lynn Custom House. Built in 1683 when the town was a major port and described by architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most perfect buildings ever built'.
A rather dark place and I find it a hard choise more iso and smaller lensopening or a compromise , I made here, not the whole bunch is sharp and a wider lens can make the difference but I like to use my macrolens:)
A view from a favourite viewpoint over the New Forest. It's in rather a hollow & very mist prone given the right conditions, but I've never managed to get the mist just lying in the bottom - this was taken probably 2.5 hrs after sunrise as the mist which had obliterated everything was just clearing. So it's a bit of work in progress I feel but I do like the arrangement of trees and perpsective into the dstance here so one to return to I think. It's always an early start though to get into position before dawn as although the Forest is very man-influenced and bisected by tracks and roads, this spot is one of the furthest from somewhere to park and is a 45 minute walk in.