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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.
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!
" If your world feels down and out
And there's nothing to scream and shout about
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Tie your shoes
And walk the blues
Tie your shoes
And walk the blues "
... my comfy blue winter hiking / walking boots. I am not dancing but walking the blues with them whenever necessary : ))
[ taken with the manual Laowa 60mm ultra macro lens with a blue glitter foam rubber in the background ]
Crazy Tuesday - theme of March 22, 2022: Footwear
This Northern Shrike turned down our offer of tofu, preferring to impale small birds and rodents.
Not the best IQ - image quality - on feet and facing away from the camera, of course. I think I heard, No Tofu!, as it flew.
Wimp.
'A predatory songbird, the Northern Shrike breeds in taiga and tundra and winters in southern Canada and the northern United States. It feeds on small birds, mammals, and insects, sometimes impaling them on spines or barbed wire fences.'
#63 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
We had a heavy rainfall in the night and there were still raindrops on the poppies when I went to take this shot.
We had a busy day with family today, so good to get together...and hug for the first time in about eighteen months!
I hope your weekend is going well.
Lensbaby Sweet 35 and macro converter
This hummingbird say here on this railing outside of my window for over half an hour. Unfortunately I had to shoot through my window which has a screen. I did my best to hide it but under the circumstances I think it came out well! This is really the only photo I've captured of a hummingbird. They are one of my favorite birds as well.
Now I'm kind of wondering...would this be better in black & white?
Day 187/365:
Lensbaby Velvet 56 wide open for a soft and dreamy look. This self seeded allium that sprung up in our lavender, was a very pleasant surprise. It has now gone to seed but hopefully will surprise us again next year.
I desaturated the image and then added some colour with a couple of textures (my own).
Day 204/365:
I so nearly threw in the towel again today. The light was fading but I took my Lensbaby Velvet 56 into the garden and the sun came out. I ended up with a couple of choices. My husband chose this one. I added the bokeh layers (my own) in PS,
Beadnell lifebuoy, shot around sunrise whilst having a play with Canon’s RF35mm 1.8, @ 1.8, just to see how it faired, I’m starting to use this lens as my basic walk about lens. Overall, whilst not the best aperture for this lens, it didn’t do too badly.
Macro Monday - Behind glass
#97 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
I wasn't going to participate in MM today as I've been busy making my Christmas cards. However I thought of this idea quite late and decided to give it a go. Rosebuds in my little glass teapot. I hope you can just about make out the curve of the teapot. HMM
Lensbaby Sweet 35 and macro converters
Back to minimalism. Walking with the dogs, catching unimpressive things along the way.
Actually, only a nettle.