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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)
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.
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.
Day 101/365:
April 2022: A month in 30 pictures
A quick just in case shot today and I didn't have time for anything else. Since it's day 101 I focussed on that
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 98/365:
I saw this cherry blossom while out with my little grandson so grabbed a shot.
Lensbaby Velvet 56
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
Day 163/365:
One of the greenhouses at Felbrigg, a National Trust property in North Norfolk.
Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Omni filters
Back to minimalism. Walking with the dogs, catching unimpressive things along the way.
Actually, only a nettle.
#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
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
#51 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
This was day two of my allium opening up and tempting us with the beauty within.
Lensbaby Velvet 56
Day 99/365:
April 2022: A month in 30 pictures
A really busy day today and I was getting desperate for photo ideas. I grabbed this vase, put it in front of the window and after a few rubbish shots decided to try a multiple exposure.
Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Omni filter then added textures.
Most of my daffodils are finished now but there are one or two that are late to the spring party. Just as well as I was struggling for a photo again today.
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
Day 57/365:
Alternative title - Desperation
We had our grandson over for the day and when he left the light was all but gone so a rather strange still life macro. My little vintage pastry tin with vintage cotton reels. A sort of sewing bee meets bake off.
Day 30/365:
Definitely dreaming - Food
I made granola this morning, handy for the food theme. I bought the heart while we were on holiday, to add to my collection.
It is the 3rd weekend that it is raining, I feel like I am in England. So I decided to go along with the weather and instead of landscape photography, shoot my twin beetles!