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This is another from my first beach visit with my 'new' camera (the other one is "Look what I found!"). I was terrified that I'd get sand on it, but it's got a fully articulated viewing screen which was great - meaning I didn't have to take anymore 'blind' shots, or sit on the wet sand (then struggle to get up again - that's where the real risk of getting sand on camera is!)
This is the best of the few shell shots I took - I really like it, but I'm sure that I can get even better ones with luck and practice.
Just a little crop and contrast applied.
Taken on Himatangi Beach, NZ
>> Here are more of my beach pics on flickr :-)
Looking Close on Friday - Nothing in focus (black and white)
This is a succulent on my kitchen windowsill. You may just be able to make out a wire heart that is stuck in the pot...or maybe not!
#75 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Lensbaby Twist 60
Day 260/365:
Smile on Saturday - Tabletop game components
Definitely Dreaming - Square. Adding this one out of sequence as I'm struggling to keep up and it just occurred to me that this would fit the theme.
I remembered we still had our son's first chess set and thought it might be good for this theme. I showed it to our grandson and told him it belonged to his daddy when he was little. He asked if we could play a game of 'chest' and he would like the white pieces.
October 2025: A month in 31 pictures
Left until the light had gone again so another low light autumnal still life. Stitch (my little mouse) hasn't made an appearance for a while so I thought I'd include him along with a couple of my crocheted pumpkins.
Lensbaby Edge 50
Well done everyone, for completing the image. Hope to see you all next year and don't forget the April challenge run by Julie and Jan.
A tiny mother wolf spider with her precious cargo.
Wolf spiders do not build conventional webs and are wandering hunters - so to be able to continue hunting and eating, Mama carries her egg sac around with her, attached to the rear of her abdomen with silk.
Inside her egg sac, all her little babies are developing. When they are born, they will ride on her back until their first moult, then leave to make their own way in the world.
Fascinating and wonderfully impressive maternal care from this beautiful little arachnid.
Genus Artoriopsis.
Body length 7 mm
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A quick, single, spontaneous shot when the horsefly landed near me - camera settings were for some artistic photography of flora I had been busy with, hence shallow depth of field here.
This horsefly may be genus Tabanus, based on on-line searches. Not enough other physical details to place specific species.
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#55 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Smile on Saturday - Portray the name of a music band
I chose this band purely because I have roses in my garden and this lovely stone heart.
Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Omni filter
HSoS and wishing you all a wonderful weekend.
I will be having fun with my grandson this afternoon so will catch up later...while recovering ;)
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I'm using the same lens this week, the 75mm on a M43 camera, so the equivalent length of 150mm on a full frame.
It's sort of ideal for trying to get something reasonably close and then something out of focus in the distance, and I'm in danger of just looking for and only snapping this kind of shot ... I must try something different tomorrow :)
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How lovely, seeing this little community of fungi, lichen and moss on a broken branch lying on the forest floor, benefitting each other in regard nutrients, shelter. So pretty, the colours and shapes.
I believe these are oyster mushrooms.
Seen in south-west Pennsylvania, USA.
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Shallow depth of field image of vibrant Dahlia flowers growing in a park in Copenhagen, Denmark. Taken with a Canon 5D4 and a 50mm lens at f/4.0.
Macro Monday - Trash
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5/30: April 2021: A month in 30 pictures
This is an offset from a blind we fitted. I knew it would come in handy for something.
Lensbaby Velvet 56
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52 Weeks of 2023 - Week 9 Rim Lighting
Just the railings around a park.
I failed :( and this was the closest thing to something rim lit I managed to snap in week 9.
When my husband suggested a walk, I didn't notice that I had the Laowa-manual-everything lens on the camera. That's a bit as if I took a film camera ;-))
Cloudy and sunny with sprinkles. This year promises to perform much more nicely than last year with its heat, dryness, and forest fires.
As luck would have it we had a rare hard frost for a couple of glorious hours earlier this week, so I was able to get out in the garden and find this tiny flower for this week's Looking Close... on Friday! group theme, Winter Flora. The poor little thing had only recently emerged. What a welcome to the world!
P.S. I apologise if you find yourself inexplicably singing Let It Go as a result of my title. :))
The point is 'fasteners' for Macro Mondays. Sometimes the simplest of objects can be both useful and beautiful...that's the best kind of design, isn't it?
This drawing pin (or thumb tack if you're from that large country north of the Mexican border!!) is for...
Macro Mondays - #fasteners
7 Days With Flickr - Free theme (Mondays)
Apologies for the Tulip Spam!
Many thanks for all the kind comments and faves - they're very much appreciated :)
Portulaca grandiflora is a fast growing annual succulent, with a spreading habit.
It has small, fleshy, lance shaped leaves on reddish stems.
The delicate flowers close up at night and on cloudy days, hence another common name of sun rose.
Native to Argentina, southern Brazil, and Uruguay.
Each flower 25 mm diameter.
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