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For Looking close on Friday - My name in black and white.
I haven't been practising my brush stroke lettering lately so thought I'd give it a go for this theme. Black ink on a white tag, that I made.
Enjoy your weekend and stay safe
25/31: October 2021: A month in 31 pictures
Macro Monday - Damage
These are some well used brushes from my craft stash. I've used them to spread glue and not washed them quickly enough so they are now used just for that purpose. I tied them together and placed them on a reflective placemat. HMM
Last time we had lots of snow for more than one day here in the city was in 2010 ! This bike was sheltered though - other saddles had big hats of snow on them : ))
I usually ride my bicycle to work and take the tram (streetcar) when it's too icy out there to avoid getting injured. But I am still working from home office ... staying at home
[This was 'staying at home (part 1)' - wouldn't have thought this situation would last that long then:
99/100: 100 x challenge _ Flowers
100 Flowers 2020
Another one from my reserves for the penultimate flower in my challenges.
I've used a couple of my own textures.
The soon to be sagging under the weight of lovelocks bridge at Bakewell. A competant locksmith could make a fortune here!
For Looking close... on Friday!"# Candies
My favorite is raspberry flavored candy.
Have a great weekend ahead and thank you for visiting!
Photographed on a Sunday afternoon exploration with Kiyoshi-san, Mari, NJ, Sun, and Yukiko-san. Columbia Street, Vancouver. October 4, 2015.
I love books. I've read so many that it's almost impossible to pick just one favourite, but for today I've chosen a novel I recently read and absolutely loved, called "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr. It's an achingly beautiful historical tale set in France and Germany during WWII, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015.
Macro Mondays - "My Favourite Novel (Fiction)"
7DWF - Free theme (Mondays)
Große Pause. Zeit für Tee.
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Have a break, have a tea time. And for me preferably outside. Lazy in the grass, among all the daisies, with a pillow under my head. So you can enjoy tea from fresh peppermint and slices of ginger and lemon perfectly this way, right? I usually use the cup in the office, now at home – there is no garden in the office anyway ;-)
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Pause machen, abwarten und Tee trinken. Und das für mich am liebsten draußen. Faul im Gras, zwischen all den Gänseblümchen, mit einem Kissen unterm Kopf. So kann man Tee aus frischer Pfefferminze und Scheiben von Ingwer und Zitrone doch perfekt genießen, oder? Die Tasse verwende ich normalerweise im Büro, jetzt zu Hause – im Büro gibt's eh keinen Garten ;-)
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#SmileOnSaturday / #Tea-rific
4/30: April 2021: A month in 30 pictures
#28 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Anything goes for 2021 - In my garden
Primulas in pot in my front garden, from a recent visit to the garden centre.
Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Omni filter
Back later to try to catch up with commenting. Enjoy your Sunday.
Another wet knees, tripod and caffeine morning photo.
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 new plants in addition to those we planted in 2017. A fun photo from this morning.
(part of the lyrics of -> 🎵Coldplay's YELLOW ) 🎵
Crazy Tuesday - theme of August 6, 2019: Yellow Colour
I would have loved to be a bit more crazy (and up-to-date), but I was struggling with summer flu last week ...
I spottetd these yellow beauties (strawflowers [Xerochrysum bracteatum] - 'Strawburst Yellow', I think) on a windy summer day in July on the Island Mainau (Lake Constance) ... go visit this lovely place when you happen to be in the south west of Germany - you won't regret it !!
HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday everyone !! :D
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für die Gruppe Crazy Tuesday - Thema: die Farbe Gelb
... (auch) diesmal ein nicht ganz taufrisches (vier Wochen altes) Foto, da ich die letzte Woche etwas grippig war und daher meine Kamera vernachlässigen musste
Diese gelben Schönheiten (Strohblumen, wohl die Sorte 'Strawburst Yellow') habe ich auf der immer wieder reizvollen Blumeninsel Mainau an einem windigen (aber sehr schönen) Sommertag im Juli entdeckt
Ich wünsche euch einen angenehmen Dienstag :)
Today is cold and windy, it is raining and everything looks gray. I need sunshine and colors to wake up (and a coffee of course).
Have a great day, better weather and thank you for visiting.
HELLO
Today's theme for the Macro Mondays group is STITCH.
This is a section of stitching on my walking boots.
Thanks for visiting.
HMM.......
Mit Muttern und Schrauben in der Gegend rumgucken. Ganz schön verwirrend.
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Do you know these confusing drawings in the children's books? In which so many things can be seen that the eyes always jump back and forth? To be able to recognize a little more, maybe to be able to see the future a little more clearly, I tried nuts and bolts as a telescope – didn't really work ;-) But I had fun with this self-portrait in my garden ...
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Kennt Ihr diese Wimmelbilder in den Kinderbücher? In denen so viele Dinge zu sehen sind, dass die Augen immer hin und her springen? Um ein bisschen mehr erkennen zu können, um vielleicht etwas klarer in die Zukunft sehen zu können, habe ich es mal mit Schrauben und Muttern als Fernrohr versucht – hat nicht so richtig funktioniert ;-) Aber ich hatte meinen Spass mit diesem Selbstporträt in meinem Garten ...
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#SmileOnSaturday / #NutsAndBolts
Day 139/365:
This self seeded allium popped its pretty little head up in our lavender bed...what a pleasant surprise. Can you tell it's summer here? So many flowers appearing in my feed ;)
For MacroMondays#Triangle
It was easier for me to make than to find them in the house.
Taken with Super Takumar 2/55 manual focus, f 2.0 and extended tube 21mm.
Have a great week ahead and thank you for visiting.
HMM!
For Crazy Tuesday#Guess whay this is
(In fact it's the angle of my little bag-notebook, I just folded the pages)
HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday!
Macro of conifer growth inspired by Macro Mondays' "Into the Woods". The diagonal measures approximately 2 inches/ 5.08 centimeters.
Apparently the wet winter has encouraged these spurts of growth on most trees and plants here.
Many thanks for looking! You may borrow my photo—just please link back to this photo page.
This rusty, lonely shutter dog caught my photographer's eye when strolling through the neighbourhood back in spring 2020 ...
I wanted to wrap up the year here on Flickr with one of my images of 2020 where I did what I love the most: experimenting with shallow depth of field :)
When looking at this scene I somehow feel serenity and hope - so:
Hang on and see you on the other side !
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Dieser rostige, einsame Klappladenhalter fiel mir bei einem Spaziergang durch die Nachbarschaft auf ...
Ich wollte das Jahr hier auf Flickr mit einem Foto aus 2020 zum Abschluss bringen, bei dem ich das gemacht habe, was ich am meisten liebe: das Spiel mit geringer Schärfentiefe :)
Für mich hat dieses Foto eine hoffnungsvolle Grundstimmung ... also:
Durchhalten und bis nächstes Jahr !
Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday - HMBT!
Sometimes there are sheep in the meadows where I bicycle along. Here I took the opportunity to make some portraits with MBT in mind.
I linked Pink Floyd - sheep - to this image. The link has the lyrics but not the movie (which is not for the fainthearted as me) - I like it more without the movie, enough to think about and I can interpret the lyrics more freely, as a parable for example youtu.be/3-oJt_5JvV4
With the sun setting through the new shoots of the red-twig dogwood, I felt more hopeful.
Thanks for looking.
The ferns are rolling out, spring can not longer be stopped. Wishing everyone a great week out there. The fern in the picture looks something like how I feel on Monday.
Day 172/365:
Crazy Tuesday - I love - I love flowers...who doesn't?
We bought some new plants for the garden today. This achillea is one of them. They are all still in the pots so I put them together for this photo to give a sort of wildflower meadow look...that's what I was aiming for anyway! ;)
Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Omni Crystal
I’ve often seen ladybugs land and pull the tips of their flight wings up under their protective coverings. Finally caught this one at the other end of the process, deploying its flight wings. How they can be flexible enough to fold lengthwise and rigid enough to fly still confounds me.
Asian Lady Beetle, Harmonia axyridis on coneflower, in the New Hanover County Arboretum, Wilmington, North Carolina.
Tech Note: This was a 10-image focus bracket, in which the ladybug wandered around out of focus, paused at frame 8, deployed in frame 9 as the focus slice arrived, and flew toward the camera, out of the focus plane in frame 10. I dropped three non-essential images for the focus stack, and edited out the stationary ladybug in frame 8 to avoid competition with the key action in frame 9. Cloned out a damaged petal in the final stack, and adjusted the curves.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
1 Aug 2021; 09:00 CDT; Velvia with post.
1st day 252/50/8; Explore #496; later no466 on 30 Dec 2023
73/100: 100 x Challenge - Flowers
100 Flowers 2020
This tiny pink flower was from a plant we bought on our recent visit to the garden centre, it's a Guara. It wasn't in bloom when we bought it so I didn't realise quite how tiny the flowers would be.
Die Quadratur des Kreises. Da ist ein Loch in der Welt.
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But only a very small hole. At least here in my tiny piece of wood and in my small macro world. Otherwise, unfortunately, it looks just different in the big wide world. We need something like squaring the circle as soon as possible, right?
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Aber nur ein ganz kleines Loch. Jedenfalls hier in meinem winzigen Holzstück und in meiner kleinen Makrowelt. Sonst sieht es gerade leider anders aus in der großen weiten Welt. Da brauchen wir möglichst bald so etwas wie die Quadratur des Kreises, oder?
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Ingredients: square piece of wood (cuboid, 0.43 inches) with a hole as a circle (I found it in the garage a time ago and added it to my collection to my Macro Mondays box – for the little things that you can always use sometimes...) birch bark as a background, glass box as spacer for a bright hole, daylight.
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Zutaten: Quadratisches Holzstück (Quader, 11 mm) mit einem Loch als Kreis (Ich habe es irgendwann in der Garage gefunden und zu meiner Sammlung in meine Macro-Mondays-Kiste dazugefügt – für die kleinen Dinge, die man immer mal gebrauchen kann ...), Birkenrinde als Hintergrund, Glasbox als Abstandshalter für ein helles Loch, Tageslicht.
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Here is a song that inspired me for the title and that we used in my choir as a pre-exercise for singing in – which unfortunately has to fail in these times constantly:
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Hier ein Song, der mich für den Titel inspiriert hat und den wir in meinem Chor immer als Vorübung zum Einsingen verwendet haben – was in diesen Zeiten leider konstant ausfallen muss:
The Eagles / Hole In The World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV2lD6EZ7eQ
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#MacroMondays 2020 / July 06 / #SquaredCircle / HMM to everyone!