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It started to rain a bit today but already stopped again too soon. We need rain badly as it is / was way too hot and dry these last months.
I remember the day I took this image: it was a mild winter evening and I just needed some fresh air ... so I took a stroll through the rainy neighbourhood with my camera and my beloved nifty fifty : ))
These are the wooden planks of a small platform near a museum and cinema where you can sit, linger, play ... and sometimes they do tango on it !
So this is my virtual rain dance !
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Heute hat es ein wenig zu regnen begonnen, aber schon wieder und viel zu schnell aufgehört. Wir brauchen dringend Regen, da es in den letzten Monaten viel zu heiß und trocken war / ist.
Ich erinnere mich an den Tag, an dem ich dieses Bild aufgenommen habe; es war ein milder Winterabend und ich brauchte einfach etwas frische Luft ... also machte ich einen Spaziergang durch die verregnete Nachbarschaft mit meiner Kamera und meinem geliebten lichtstarken 50er
Das sind die Holzplanken einer kleinen Plattform in der Nähe eines Museums und eines Kinos, wo man sitzen, verweilen und spielen kann ... und manchmal wird dort auch Tango getanzt !
Dies ist also mein virtueller Regentanz !
We finally have frost. I love to watch the progression of these lanterns from green to orange to porous where the red seed appears.
In 2017 we planted three small perennial plants of Physalis alkekengi, (aka bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese-lantern, strawberry, groundcherry, or winter cherry). I love the cheery orangish lantern-shaped paper-like pod or husk around each bright round seed.
Now we have many new volunteer plants in addition to those we planted. Another fun photo to take advantage of this morning's frost, with camera, tripod splayed, and coffee. And reading no news!
.... seeing these beautiful flowers gives me every year a bit of a melancholy feel ... it’s already August
Lange Schatten und lichte Punkte. Das Jahr 2020.
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Maybe a rope to hold on to. A lot of shade this year, for many stinging like needles. A lot has changed for many, is still changing. Maybe there is also a soft base. Just like here. And – where there is shadow, there is also light – so they say. Just like here. A lot is being questioned or reconsidered in order to make it better in the future. So it fits that green is also known as the color of hope ;-)
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Again serious thoughts on my part. Although I have implemented this picture very playfully and with a lot of fun ;-) I wish you all that you can also act in a playful way – and have fun doing it :-)))
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Vielleicht ein Seil zum Festhalten. Viel Schatten in diesem Jahr, für viele wie Nadeln so stechend. Für viele hat sich viel verändert, verändert sich immer noch. Vielleicht gibt es auch eine weiche Basis dazu. So wie hier. Und – wo Schatten ist, da ist auch Licht – sagt man so. So wie hier. Vieles wird gerade in Frage gestellt oder überdacht, um es in Zukunft besser zu machen. Da passt es doch, dass Grün ja bekanntlich auch noch die Farbe der Hoffnung ist ;-)
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Wieder einmal ernste Gedanken meinerseits. Obwohl ich dieses Bild sehr spielerisch und mit viel Spaß umgesetzt habe ;-) Ich wünsche Euch allen, dass Ihr ebenfalls spielerisch agieren könnt – und viel Spaß dabei :-)))
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Ingredients: Felt pad (called cam pad and used as a base pad for outdoor photography), pins, sewing thread, bicycle light, bathroom (the only relatively dark room today with only three small window gaps ...) / Dimensions width: 1.77 inches
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Zutaten: Unterlage aus Filz (Cam-Pad genannt und bei Draußen-Fotografier-Unternehmungen als Bodenunterlage dienend), Stecknadeln, Nähgarn, Fahrradleuchte, Badezimmer (Der einzige verhältnismäßig dunkle Raum heute mit nur drei kleinen Fensterluken ... ) / Abmessungen Breite: 45 mm
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#MacroMondays 2020 / July 20 / #Numbers / HMM to everyone!
#YourBestShot2020
Day 162/365:
Saw this Hillman Minx, vintage car in a car park in Cromer, Norfolk. Tomorrow there is a vintage car show in Sheringham, the next town along.
I'm usually rubbish at photographing vehicles but I'm actually quite pleased with this one. At least I got a shot which is all I'm aiming for at the moment.
If you have a minute you may enjoy viewing and listening to this video by Madness...a bit of fun and a blast from the past:
Another macro double exposure where I made the first image totally blurred and the second in focus. I'm enjoying these but am aware it's all a bit samey...needs must though. This one is the echinops in my garden. The bees love these and I was being dive bombed constantly while photographing.
Trying to catch up after my break but had our grandson for the afternoon so will attempt to catch up this evening.
#59 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Anything goes 2021 - Bees and butterflies (a hoverfly was the best I could get)
Looking Close on Friday - Small animals with wings
The hoverfly landed on the cosmos while I was trying to get a shot, the hoverfly is not wonderfully in focus but since I love cosmos flowers and quite liked the shot anyway, I thought I'd post it.
Lensbaby Velvet 56
It's blowing a gale outside with torrential rain forecast...so I've had a happy hour or so looking back over sunnier times in Crete earlier this year :)
Taken in the "BMW-Welt" in Munich a few days ago.
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Sony A7M2
Sony SEL85F14GM
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Fluss der Sonne oder des Mondes. Manchmal eine Illusion.
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Like a day by the sea or river, drifting along until sunset, maybe on a small boat ... Reality sometimes plays a small trick on you ;-) But for me this is a nice view of a little trip to Italy, to Comer Lake that awaits me and hopefully it will not be an illusion :-) This photo was taken on a beautiful evening in my garden – I have a pretty old table in one corner, the wood of which is simply too beautifully mossy not to keep ... By the way, the sun is simulated here by an orange candy ;-)
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Wie ein Tag am Meer oder Fluss, dahintreiben bis zum Sonnenuntergang, vielleicht auf einem kleinen Boot ... Die Wirklichkeit spielt einem manchmal einen kleinen Streich ;-) Aber dies ist für mich ein schöner Ausblick auf eine kleine Reise nach Italien, an den Comer See, der mich erwartet und ist hoffentlich keine Illusion :-) Dieses Foto ist an einem schönen Abend in meinem Garten entstanden – ich habe in einer Ecke einen ziemlich alten Tisch, dessen Holz einfach zu schön vermoost ist, um ihn nicht zu behalten ... Die Sonne ist hier übrigens durch einen Orangenbonbon simuliert ;-)
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Moon River / Audrey Hepburn / Breakfast at Tiffany's
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC9c2Ec8urA
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The "Moon River" really does exist – it is the "Back River" that crosses the small town of Savannah in the US state of Georgia, the hometown of Johnny Mercer. There on the river bank of Burnside Island was his house, and on the terrace he wrote the text, with a view of the particularly wide river at this point.
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Den „Moon River“ gibt es wirklich – es ist der „Back River“, der das Städtchen Savannah im US-Bundesstaat Georgia durchquert, den Heimatort von Johnny Mercer. Dort am Flußufer der Burnside Island, stand sein Haus, und auf der Terasse schrieb er den Text, mit Blick auf den an dieser Stelle besonders breiten Strom.
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Nikon Micro-Nikkor-P / 1:3.5 / 55 mm / extension 10 + 16 mm
Last rays of the July sun this evening. And the Black Eyed Susans, and their friends, are dancing once again. 🌻🌻
Macro Mondays theme: Anything goes.
Ingredients:
Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100/2.8 @f3.5
Olympus E-M 10 Mark II
20mm extension tube
Manual setup, manual focus, available light, handheld. Hope, you enjoy!
A low angle, fairly close shot with my 70-200 lens, produced an extreme shallow depth of field around this stem of Barley.
Das Blaue vom Himmel. Das Grüne aus dem Erdboden.
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A delicate, somewhat diffuse side and a clearly structured side. Sometimes it's good that there is the second – it will hopefully bring us back to the real ground when we have been promised the blue of the sky and it doesn't quite turn out to be reality ;-) I wish everyone a fun diversified evening!
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Eine zarte, etwas diffuse Seite und eine klar strukturierte Seite. Manchmal gut, dass es die zweite gibt – bringt sie uns doch hoffentlich wieder auf den realen Erdboden zurück, wenn uns das Blaue vom Himmel versprochen wurde und es nicht ganz so zur Wirklichkeit wird ;-) Ich wünsche allen einen abwechslungsreichen Abend!
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Promising someone the blue of the sky – the symbol is easy to understand: What falls from the sky happens without your own intervention and without any influence on it. The saying is very old – the first written evidence is from the year 1656 ... In English it is expressed more like: "to promise the moon" or "... sky and the stars". At least that's how I was able to research it – if there are any objections, I ask for correction! ;-)
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Jemandem das Blaue vom Himmel versprechen – das Sinnbild ist einfach zu verstehen: Was vom Himmel fällt, geschieht ohne eigenes Zutun und ohne dass man Einfluss darauf hat. Die Redensart ist schon sehr alt – der wohl erste schriftliche Beleg ist aus dem Jahre 1656 ... Im Englischen wird es eher so ausgedrückt: "to promise the moon" or "... sky and the stars". So habe ich es jedenfalls recherchieren können – falls es Einwände gibt, bitte ich um Korrektur! ;-)
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#SmileOnSaturday / #Feathers
Going through my archives and came across this one from one of our last stays with my sister in France pre Covid. I can't wait to go back. We visited La Vallée des Singes (Monkey Park)
HMBT
Another perfectly named insect - I was lucky enough to find a few of these lovely creatures in a patch of nettles at a local wildlife trust yesterday.
Resting on nettles at Woods Mill nature reserve yesterday. I love their elegantly patterned wings :)
Surrounded by the shield of happy air
Swaying to the whistling winds
Away from the worldly chaos
I shall lay my head over them
Take me to the beds of flowers...
--Shivani Abbaraju
Another strangely beautiful piece of tech from deep within the depths of my husband's mysterious shed... :)
24/30: April 2020: A month in 30 pictures
25/100: 100 x Challenge - Flowers
25/100: 100 Flowers 2020
Another one from my bouquet of flowers. There are no pink roses in the bouquet, this is a blend of two images, I then changed the hue.
Crazy Tuesday - theme of April 21nd, 2020: Lines
... the lines of my classical guitar (frets and strings) ... and some paper clip ...
.... this guitar paper clip is very clingy by the way: it already was a subject of my submission for MM yesterday - but it just wouldn't let go !! So here we are again :D
HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday, everyone : )
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Sei kein Spielverderber und spiel mit mir :)
Verrückter Dienstag - Thema am 21. April: Linien
... Bundstäbe und Saiten meiner Konzertgitarre ... und eine sehr anhängliche Büroklammer : ))
Einen schönen Dienstag euch allen !
#MacroMonday
#Safety
I wonder if James would approve of this? This is a look inside of a small TSA 007 safety lock which I use on my – at the moment unemployed – camera backpack. I think James should approve if the number is 007, although I read somewhere that these locks are easy to pick. Well, I don't care, the only thing this lock is supposed to do is to prevent pickpockets from emptying the camera compartment of my backpack while I'm in a crowd :)
My MM experience at the moment is like picking the petals off a daisy, saying "Will I take part", "Will I skip", "Will I take part", "Will I skip"... and so on ;) I seem to be in a lockdown lethargy, but my inspiration is slowly coming back. Or is it? Well, I certainly hope so :)
The keyhole of this safety lock is 4 mm / 0,157 inches high. I used the 10mm Kenko extension tube and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens attached to my macro lens to get nicely close, but not too close. The image is a manual focus stack made of only two images, because it was impossible to get those two metal components (there are more inside) equally sharp in a single shot. Processed in DXO PhotoLab, Analog Efex (the vignette), Color Efex (Graduated Neutral Density Filter) and Luminar AI (details on the metal parts inside of the lock).
Happy Macro Monday, stay safe and happy, everyone :)
98/100: 100 x challenge - Flowers
100 Flowers 2020
Another one from my reserves, gradually getting there, just two more to go.
I think this rose looks like whipped cream.
Day 346/365:
Definitely Dreaming - Dreaming of...A White Christmas
We rarely have snow here now, at least not enough to settle. So I took advantage, wrapped up warm grabbed my walking stick, a couple of baubles and my camera with Lensbaby Velvet 56 and set off into the fields at the end of our road. It was a difficult walk but I got the shot I had envisaged so was a happy bunny.
Macro Mondays - theme of June 8th, 2020: On a coin
This earring was a gift from my dad - we both shared the love for the colour turquoise / cyan
(the coin is 2.3 cm in diameter, the stones are 1.5 mm - I should have polished the silver, but - alas - didn't have the time)
The one pound coin I will spend when we come back again to London / England (we would have been in London this spring, but then Corona happened)
Happy Macro Mondays, everyone
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Erinnerungen
Macro Monday - Thema am 8. Juni 2020: Auf einer Münze
Dieser Ohrring war ein Geschenk meines Vaters - wir haben die Liebe für die Farbe Türkis/Cyan geteilt :)
(Die Münze ist 2,3 cm breit, die Steine maximal 1,5 mm - ich hätte das Silber wohl polieren sollen; leider fehlte die Zeit dazu)
Die Pfundmünze werde ich ausgeben, wenn wir eines Tages wieder nach England kommen (wir wären in diesem Frühjahr in London gewesen, aber dann kam Corona)
Einen schönen Montag Abend !