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October 2025: A month in 31 pictures
#82 in my 100 x challenge - 100 Lensbaby images
This beautiful huge dahlia was in the walled garden at Felbrigg National trust, North Norfolk. I do love a walled garden and I love a dahlia too.
Lensbaby Velvet 56 and gold swiss cheese Omni
for Smile on Saturday. Two necklaces made by my sister.
A tad high-key while checking the off-camera lights ;-)
But I like it! Hmm, depends on which monitor. That looks really high key on my Mac monitor, but I just calibrated the large PC monitor.
How it looks without blasting the heckoutofit
#3 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
I bought this tiny vintage (1940s) dainty tin from Etsy. Since I can't get out for a rummage for photo props...and let's face it we all need new props from time to time...I've had to resort to looking online. I may have accidentally ordered a new lens today as well. Ooops!
This was taken using my Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Omni filter. The hearts are from my craft stash.
October 2025: A month in 31 pictures
#86 in my 100 x challenge - 100 Lensbaby images
While the idea was fresh in my mind i thought I'd do the high key version of yesterday's image.Feeling mighty guilty for picking these geranium flowers though.
This time I used the Lensbaby Edge 80 with the +2 macro filter
We're past the halfway point, well done everyone.
Wild chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris) - also known as cow parsley and Queen Anne's lace.
Olympus EM1 + Pentacon 50mm f1.8, wide open aperture.
“Flowers are like friends; they bring color to your world.”
~ unknown
my husband brought me a lovely bouquet of flowers on Friday and this was one of my first attempts with the new manual Laowa 2x ultra macro lens (2:1 magnification) that had just arrived ; ))
Not as close as I could have gone (you see about 4 - 5 cm here), but I like the soft DOF very much even as it is
Wishing you a lovely rest of Sunday and a pleasant week ahead !!
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mein Mann brachte mir am Freitag einen hübschen Blumenstrauß mit, und dies war einer meiner ersten Versuche mit dem neuen Laowa 2x Ultra-Makro-Objektiv (bis zu 2-fache Vergrößerung), das gerade angekommen war ; ))
Ich hätte näher rangehen können (das sind etwa 4 - 5 cm Bildbreite), aber das weiche Bokeh gefällt mir auch so schon sehr gut
Ich wünsche Euch einen schönen Restsonntag und eine angenehme Woche!
Macro Monday - Bathroom
I usually set up my shots and use a tripod but just placed these on the bathroom window sill and took it hand held...standards are slipping!
The bath salts jar is approximately 1x2 inches. It's one of the little travel bath supplies from the B&B we stayed in Apollo Bay on our trip to Australia and I thought it would be a handy photo prop. Behind it is a scented candle, you'll just have to take my word that it smells wonderful and looks too good to light. HMM
Day 24/365:
We saw an artist at work on the beach at Lyme Regis, Dorset. He very kindly let me take some photos. I loved the messy paint tubes.
Vanessa kershawi, known commonly as the Australian painted lady, busy in my garden. Not a full dorsal shot, but lovely enough to share.
So pretty, the pale brown underwings and the delicate pattern of orange and brown on the upper wings, with tiny blue/lilac eyespots on the hind wings.
Australian painted ladies here in New South Wales migrate in great numbers in spring, moving on a front that extends for about 600 km inland from the coast. This migration can continue for up to eight weeks, with the main movement being in a south/south-westerly direction.
I gather males and females are virtually identical in form and markings, so not sure which I saw here.
Larvae feed on native everlastings and other daisies, as well as introduced plants such as this elfin herb (Cuphea hyssopifolia).
5 cm wingspan.
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This metal micrometer measuring gauge was one of my father's many tools; before his death he gave many of them to my husband. This tool was used for precise measurement and to measure gap widths.
After he and my mother survived active war duty in the army, they went to university. There they became concerned about government and politics the more they learned. Glad they can't see our situation now.
Inspired by #MacroMondays and #father. As shot, except to remove a bit of cyan along an edge. Approximate width 5cm/ 1.97 inches.
NB. I tried for a no-frills or bokeh approach, a more engineering streamlined look. The histogram looks okay...does it look too dark on your monitor?
This week’s Macro Monday's theme is 'SPIRAL—which may be described as “a continuous and gradually widening (or tightening) curve, either around a central point on a flat plane or about an axis so as to form a cone...”'
After taking multiple sets of photos — tiny seashells, small spiral notebook ends — for this #spiral theme, I chose this cyclamen bud ready to unfurl. Less than 0.5 inches / 1.27 centimeters.
The true spiral appears at the bottom of the bud, but that's alarmingly too small to see and capture without a microscope.
Thanks for looking, for your faves, and for your comments.
(rental camera while mine is cleaned)
HMBT - Happy monochrome bokeh Thursday
Munich airport. We had quite some time during our stop-over. So what to do? Experimenting with a very shallow depth of field .... :)
John Earl Walker
Day 110/365:
April 2022: A month in 30 pictures
I went to pick a few of these wild violets from my garden and there seemed to be a little snail graveyard by them. It seemed a good idea to use a natural vase for these little beauties. Getting them to stay put was another matter entirely. The top one was obviously camera shy! I did a version without the extra shell but my husband preferred this one, since I couldn't decide I went with his choice.
Crazy Tuesday - theme of July 2, 2019: Green / Verde 💚
a crown cap magnet (for the fridge) with a message of peace for every day (here upside down) :)
I will be browsing late in the evening due to work !!
😊 HaPpY CrAzY (and peaceful) Tuesday, eveyone !! 😊
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Verrückter Dienstag - Thema: Grün
Zwei Kronkorken-Magneten (für den Kühlschrank) ... mit einer Friedens-Botschaft für jeden Tag :)
Actually, not a very safe spot for cats to cross the street. East 1st Avenue, Vancouver. November 8, 2020.
97/100: 100 x challenge - Flowers
100 Flowers 2020
This is one from August. I took a few photos of these rudbeckia and posted one at the time...needs must so I am posting this one as I'm running out of time and flowers for the flower challenges.
Look what´s reaching out of her mouth :)
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October 2025:A month in 31 pictures
#85 in my 100 x challenge - 100 Lensbaby images
Another dull day here so I thought I'd have a play with my new torch to light the image.
I was tempted to use flowers on a book but thought this was more autumnal for the October challenge. I may do a high key floral one another day though.
Lensbaby Sol 45, blades disengaged this time to let a bit more light in.
backlit reed grass (Silvergrass) on a (very) windy day
Taken with the manual vintage lense Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 - wide open. This lens is a bit of a diva with a sometimes very erratic bokeh like here ... don't know yet whether I like it, lol ;))
Post Processing:
A mix of Topaz 'City Flare' (mainly) and 'Heavy Metal' (at about 10% opacity) - partially undone via a layer mask.
Further processing with Affinity Photo.
Happy Sliders Sunday :))
Definitely Dreaming - Week 47 - Season (I'm so behind and totally out of sync).
I took this one for Definitely Dreaming and as an alternative image for MM vintage theme a couple of weeks ago. It's a vintage mustard spoon with mustard powder.
Big old Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda 'rosea') vine just about to flower. The golden little leaves are just as dramatic and exquisite as the flowers.
“I don’t ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days.” – Unknown
Did I ever mention that I do looove to ride my bike ?? : ))
We have a complete shutdown here, now, of all cultural and public life as of Wednesday, March 17th, 2020 (schools, kindergartens and day care centers are already closed since Monday)
... so my bike might get a little bit bored during the coming weeks as I am working from home now ...
Please take care and stay healthy, dear Flickr Friends !! ♥
[this was my submission for 52Frames - week 11: Triangular Composition]
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"Ich fahre nicht Fahrrad, um meinem Leben Tage hinzuzufügen. Ich fahre Fahrrad, um meinen Tagen Leben einzuhauchen" - Unbekannt
Habe ich jemals erwähnt, dass ich gerne Fahrrad fahre ?? : ))
... meinem Fahrrad dürfte es in den kommenden Wochen aufgrund der bekannten Situation aber wohl etwas langweilig werden ...
Bitte passt auf euch auf und bleibt gesund, liebe Flickr-Freunde ! ♥
[dies war mein Beitrag für 52Frames - Woche 11: Dreieckskomposition]
Autumn and winter-time pretty little bell flowers produced by plants within this Australian genus.
Often commonly called Australian native fuchsia.
Correa is a genus of eleven species, presenting as shrubs to small trees.
This is specifically cultivar 'Catie Bec' growing to 1m in height.
Each flower just 15 mm in length.
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26/30: April 2021: A month in 30 pictures
#39 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Macro Monday - Forks
Thanks again Diane, for this fabulous vintage fork (and spoon) I love them!
I tried several ideas before finally narrowing it down to two images to choose from. HMM
Lensbaby Sweet 35 with macro converter