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Smile on Saturday - theme of August 17, 2019: bee-autiful!
Bee-autiful Busy Bumblebee (seen on the Mainau Island, South Germany) ... and I love its bumble bum !!
Happy Smile on Saturday and a Happy Weekend everyone !
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"Starre nicht so auf meinen Hintern!" :)
Fleißige Hummel (gesehen auf der Blumen-Insel Mainau)
... und ich mag ihren Hintern :)
Einen fröhlichen Samstag
und ein tolles Wochenende euch allen !! :)
Day 352/365:
This is not the sharpest or the best image but I didn't have much time today. We took our grandson out to The Magic of Christmas to choose a Christmas tree. We also let him choose some baubles...unfortunately he didn't choose tasteful ones like these ;) They may be my props on other days.
Lensbaby Sol 45
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
flowers from my backyard.
Thank you very much for your visits, comments and faves.
Be well and stay at home.
"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hour."
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer who was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature)
Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):
Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 400
Aperture – f/7.1
Exposure – 1/1000 second
Focal Length – 95mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Big old Wisteria (Wisteria floribunda 'rosea') vine just about to flower. The golden little leaves are just as dramatic and exquisite as the flowers.
What comes in threes? Traffic lights. And what are these strange traffic lights? Tiny buttons. Who buys buttons like these? My mum in the 1970s!
For Macro Mondays theme of "Three". HMM!
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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This little one was finding all sorts of crumbs scattered around the construction site, and was therefore blithely unconcerned with my presence.
Listening to St. Paul and the Broken Bones' "Call Me": youtu.be/z7s9A3s8iv8
#45 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Macro Monday - Button
Wooden buttons, ribbon and background paper from my craft stash. HMM
Lensbaby Sweet 35 and macro converters plus Omni filter
Sparrow without a song...all fluffed up for the cold. Snow expected tomorrow.
"A rich, russet-and-gray bird with bold streaks down its white chest, the Song Sparrow is one of the most familiar North American sparrows. Don’t let the bewildering variety of regional differences this bird shows across North America deter you: it’s one of the first species you should suspect if you see a streaky sparrow in an open, shrubby, or wet area. If it perches on a low shrub, leans back, and sings a stuttering, clattering song, so much the better."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Song_Sparrow
This puffed-up sparrow in the tall grasses neither sang nor flew in a direction I expected. We had a bit of light this morning.
Comments unnecessary. Very large crop.
Larger size: www.flickr.com/photos/jan-timmons/49357859576/sizes/h/
Day 243/365:
Another one in the spotlight series. A cappuccino and a photography book, just in the frame.
Feeling a bit battered and bruised after my osteopath appointment so will try to catch up a bit later.
Seltsame Kreatur. Cygnus Olor Medusae.
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Really fascinating contortions that this mutation of a mute swan does when it eats food. This species is probably only seen on Sundays ;-) – I met this guy in a field near my village having lunch ...
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Wirklich faszinierende Verrenkungen, die diese Mutation eines Höckerschwans bei der Nahrungsaufnahme veranstaltet. Vermutlich wird diese Spezies nur Sonntags gesichtet ;-) – ich traf diesen Gesellen auf einem Feld in der Nähe meines Dorfes beim Mittagessen ...
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Cygnus Olor Medusae / Snake-headed Mute Swan / Schlangenköpfiger Höckerschwan
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#SlidersSunday
7DWF Fridays : Flora
"Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen."
Harry Chapin
An in camera multiple exposure of a white and blue agapanthus. Apparently agapanthus means flower of love.
The flowers were against a creamy white wall which looked quite dirty when I uploaded the image. I added a couple of textures to change that.
Internet connection is dreadful here. It's taken me several attempts to post this. I will comment when able.
LARGE View On Black
I think it might be the last tunnel for a while. I somehow do not manage to see a lot of new ones... But TGIF anyway!;-))
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Macro Monday - Dutch Angle - A macro image taken at an angle.
My husband treated me this perfume while we were in Chester earlier this year. I love the bottle almost as much as the fragrance but I keep it in its box tucked away in a drawer because apparently if perfume is kept in the light it doesn't last as long. HMM
This picture has notes. If they are not where they should be when you open the page, going to lightbox and back again should do the trick. It's simply a Flickr quirk. No comment!
Best viewed in lightbox, then plus and on full screen (F11), of course!
The gear! (new tab) - Shh!!! Mum's the word!
Please do read on by scrolling down the page till you're there! (ツ)
Inspired by a sudden piercing bit of sunlight (we have flood and landslide warnings from steady rain), I tried to catch patterns with the subjects already before me. Always a notebook and pen nearby with which to write.
Digital notes make for handy reference, but pen and ink? Still a joy. Must plant more trees to compensate for paper!
Sorry: posted to wrong account. Too late now.
[based on verse 122 of Dhammapada]
Macro Mondays - theme of May 20, 2019: Copper
a miniature jug I discovered in my mum's typecase (shadowbox) - collecting tiny things is running in the family ;))
Photographed in the garden after intense rain
[width of the jar: 3.7 cm - including the handles; the "hole" ist 1.9 cm wide]
Happy Macro Mondays everyone !!
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für die Gruppe Macro Mondays - Thema: Kupfer
Dies ist ein Miniaturkrug, den ich im Setzkasten meiner Mutter gefunden habe ... wir waren schon immer alle Sammler ;))
(3,7 cm breit inklusive der Henkel - die Öffnung ist 1,9 cm breit)
Aufgenommen nach einem heftigen Regenschauer im Garten ... Regen hatten wir am Wochenende ja fast in unerschöpflichem Ausmaß :)
A prolifically flowering and delightfully aromatic shrub.
Commonly known as mint bush, Prostanthera is a genus of around 100 species of flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae, and they all are endemic to this country.
This is specifically Prostanthera lasianthes x phylicifolia, Poorinda Ballerina.
These tiny flowers are just a few cm in diameter.
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Tonight's hazy sunset through the very tall wild grasses in the back forty, kneeling and using my monopod so that I don't fall back down.
Experimenting. Inspired by seeing so many lovely Crazy Tuesday group’s photos. www.flickr.com/groups/crazy_tuesday/
Thanks for looking!