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(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 :)
The tiny gold button is surrounded by tiny silver buttons (that happen to look like Christmas decorations, which I thought was appropriate given the month) and a thimble to the left. I love sewing accessories although I do not sew myself!
For Macro Mondays "Buttons and Bows" theme. HMM!
Exposing for the light.
This calendula officinalis still bloomed outdoors in an area protected from wind. Now, of course, with two days of of freezing temperatures, I doubt we could find it from our walk several days ago.
Something to salute autumn's beauty on the first day of November.
Bit shallow depth of field because I wore my new climbing helmet for the walk. Must avoid further concussions...and the brim and camera did not agree.
Had in mind "Looking Close on Friday"
Theme: Orange
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
balance in motion
comments off for now
but my thanks for the company!!
forgive me for deleting group comment codes...
they're not my thing.. tho I do appreciate the visit!
For Looking close... on Friday!"# Candies
My favorite is raspberry flavored candy.
Have a great weekend ahead and thank you for visiting!
Crazy Tuesday - theme of February 1, 2022: open aperture
the head of a key to an old sideboard,
taken with the manual Laowa 60mm f/2.8 ultra macro lens wide open
Happy Crazy Tuesday !!
(I will try to catch up this evening or tomorrow )
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
Kein Schnee in diesem Winter. Fest-/Abgemacht?
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Winter as it is. It remains to be seen whether there will be snow this winter ... The fence here on the edge of our village is just waiting. He has nothing else to do – the animals have migrated from pasture to winter quarters ;-)
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Winter, so wie er eben ist. Ob es diesen Winter noch Schnee geben wird, ist mal abzuwarten ... Der Zaun hier am Rand unseres Dorfes wartet einfach mal ab. Was anderes hat er nicht zu tun – die Tiere sind von der Weide ins Winterquartier gewandert ;-)
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#CrazyTuesday / #Winter
Day 69/365:
Definitely Dreaming - Hands
My little star helping me out today. Hands aren't in focus but focus isn't everything, right?
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 ;)
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
Day 216/365:
The Sweet 35 is (was) not my favourite of the Lensbaby lenses. Today I realised why. I was trying to use it for images that I thought it should be used for instead of sticking to my style or thinking outside the box. So here we have a double exposure. First exposure is of the berberis bush and the second is of the roses...both in my garden. A bit of faffing and a texture added and I'm quite pleased. May start to use the Sweet 35 a bit more now.
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?
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!
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.
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!
“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
~ Joe L Wheeler
manual vintage Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AI @ about f/2.8 (I think)
taken in October when there were not much autumn colours yet; mostly already brown leaves (due to the heat and draught this summer) or still green ones like on the tree in the background
I have been a bit under the weather; trying to catch up : ))
The soon to be sagging under the weight of lovelocks bridge at Bakewell. A competant locksmith could make a fortune here!
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.......
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)