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Ribwort plantain, also known as short-bobs and fireweed (Plantago lanceolata).
Olympus EM1 + Canon FD SSC 50mm f1.4, wide open aperture.
The blackish meadow katydid making its way through the lime green foliage of 'Sheena's Gold' Duranta.
Specifically Conocephalus semivittatus ssp. semivittatus. Commonly known as coneheads for obvious reasons.
Small in size compared to other katydids I've come across, around 15 mm body length.
Adult male.
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A lovely morning of diffused light and previous rainfall made for some nice spider webs. Out came the macro lens :-)
on 'miscanthus sinensis' (Silvergrass)
I took this image in February 2020 during one of my last trips to the city park before it got closed due to COVID-pandemic ... it was a fine, sunny winter day and I enjoyed strolling around and taking photos - very fond memories of a carefree time !
Take care !!
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Ich nahm dieses Bild im Februar 2020 bei einem meiner letzten Besuche im Stadtpark auf, bevor dieser wegen der COVID-Pandemie geschlossen wurde ... es war ein schöner, sonniger Wintertag und ich genoss es, herumzuschlendern und Fotos zu machen - sehr schöne Erinnerungen an eine unbeschwerte Zeit !
Passt auf euch auf !!
Alice-san is the reason I bought an Instax Square camera too! Photographed on an exploration session with Kageyama-san, Lonny, Mamoru-san, and Yoshikatsu-san. Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. November 4, 2019.
HFF
When I encountered this fence I I thought it makes an interesting subject to practice with my wide angel lens the use of a shallow depth of field in combination with different PoVs and compositions. In this image I wanted to emphasize the mystery of this fence. For me it had no real function, it started and ended somewhere without enclosing something. So I decided to make it in LR quite dark with a high contrast. It gives also an analog film feeling to me.
De Horsten / Wassenaar / The Netherlands
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These tiny flowers called Scilla caught my eye on a morning's walk. The blossoms dotted someone's entire yard which was quite pretty to see! Some of the blooms were close enough to the sidewalk for me to photograph them.
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Day 18 - October 2024: A month in 31 pictures
I've struggled to get the whole of this dahlia in the frame but today I tried it with my new Lensbaby sweet 22 along with macro filters and it worked a treat.
I took quite a few shots. This one was the very first and I always like a good DoF.
Happy Macro Mondays
It did not take me long to come up with something for this theme.
Happy Macro Mondays
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I did cut the lawn after this...but I always leave long pockets uncut, as well as logs and rocks. It provides refuges for wildlife and allows interesting plants to appear.
The first flowers to sprout from the earth each year (here at least), crocus bring forth hope for the warmer days and bright blooms of spring. Nature amazes me.
The petals (left, rear) opened as I photographed the tiny blossom this morning. So much fun!
Natural vignette, tripod
Way back in 1900, this pocket watch was made with care in a factory in Massachusetts, USA. The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time fuses, and other precision instruments between 1850 and 1957 (info courtesy of Wikipedia).
Macro Monday - Ribbon
This is a vintage wooden spool with rustic style ribbon against one of my favourite backdrops of the moment.
I tried out one of the Omni filters with my macro lens and quite like the swirl effect it gave. HMM
#MacroMondays
#OneColor
#blue
Sleepless nights are guaranteed for the Princess on the Pea, and she might very well throw a tantrum if her prince offered her a mattress like this. Now there are neither peas nor roses in this photo but needle-sharp spikes, even though the centre spike which I've focused on looks as soft as a Hershey's Kiss in this close-up. But believe me, those spikes aren't soft at all. The "spike blossoms" also aren't rose-shaped (but to me, they look like roses) but are supposed to represent lotus blossoms, and, as the manufacturer promises, they "hurt so good". It's a detail of a massage/acupressure mat that I've photographed before for our October 2018 theme "Remedy" (please check the first comment; in that photo, you can also see better how the mat is constructed and how spikey the spikes really are).
The spikes on each lotus blossom are constructed so that they won't injure the user; instead, they are supposed to relieve back and other pain, stimulate blood circulation and bring deep relaxation. So who knows, maybe the princess will thank her prince after all ;) I still can't deny or confirm this because once again I've only borrowed the mat for the photo; this time an all-new palm rest my mother, magrit k., had ordered for her desk and computer work. I placed my hand on it a few times, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I still can't imagine lying down on an entire mat covered with these (admittedly beautiful-looking) spikey things.
This time, I tried to get as close as possible and so focused on the centre part of a single lotus blossom. It's a single capture shot wide open at F 2.8 because I liked how the "petals" transitioned into the blur and turned into soft flames.
Size info: The centre part of this single blossom is 1,8 cm / 0,70 inches wide (and the whole diameter of a single blossom is 3 cm / 1,18 inches).
HMM, Everyone!
Drinnen und draußen. Leben außerhalb einer Box.
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A somewhat absurd still-life, as it seems ;-) For me it's very personal :-) Blood plum blossom twig, flowering currant, daisy – all fresh from our garden, where spring has broken and that makes me so happy ... And two travel memories from near and far – indeed I imported the rusted sardine oil can box from faraway South Africa (crazy) and the plastic fish came from a trip to the nearby Harz ...
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Ein etwas absurdes Still-Leben, so wie es scheint ;-) Für mich ist es sehr persönlich :-) Blutpflaumen-Blütenzweig, Zierjohannisbeere, Gänseblümchen – alles frisch aus unserem Garten, wo der Frühling ausgebrochen ist und das macht mich so fröhlich ... Und zwei Reise-Erinnerungen von nah und fern – die verrostete Sardinen-Öldose habe ich tatsächlich aus dem fernen Südafrika importiert (verrückt) und der Plastikfisch stammt von einer Reise in den nahen Harz ...
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#SmileOnSaturday / #Box
Two pollinators--American hoverfly, Eupeodes americanus, left, and Margined Calligrapher, Toxomerus marginatus--approaching a Prairie Nymph, Herbertia lahue, as it unfurls for the morning.
Seabourne Creek Nature Park.
17 June 2021; 10:40 CDT; Provia SOOC.
Photographed while exploring with Junko-san and Teruhide-san. Omihachiman, Shiga-ken, Japan. November 12, 2019.
I finally have my first damselfly in my garden, years after starting my first pond - and I found it inside my house first, and had to rescue it! Then I had to photograph it, of course. I feel this shot shows it throwing up its legs in the air, eyeballing me, indignant.
40/52: Project 52 - abstract
Macro Mondays - Musical instrument
Another use for the violin my friend lent me as a photo prop. HMM
I had a lovely time at Winkworth Arboretum in Surrey this morning, enjoying the beautiful Autumn colour, and what am I posting? Cedric the Snail, of course. He came along with me in my pocket and I couldn't resist his smile when he found a leaf that matched the stripes on his shell. :)
Happy Fenced Friday my dear Flickr Friends.
This is the fence on one of the bridges which crossing the "Salzach" in Salzburg.
Used Tools:
Sony A7 Mark II
Canon EF 70-200/2.8 L IS II
#MacroMondays
#Stationery
I'm not sure if getting sharpened is great fun for a pencil but... I think it depends on the pencil's character. I assume there are pencils out there that prefer to be blunt and others that insist on being razor sharp and therefore see their daily workout in the sharpener as an absolute necessity. Why should pencils be any different from us humans who use them, after all... ;)
I've been after this idea of photographing the inside of a pencil sharpener for quite a while, I think I've tried to make it work on three or four occasions, not all of them "Stationery"-related MM themes. So far, there always had been something off, odd focusing, unsatisfying sharpness, weird POV... you name it, I've unsuccessfully tried it.
Now this photo isn't perfect, either, the framing is still a little weird, but I think this time it works as an image; I like the bokeh, and there also is enough sharpness in the right places. I think what finally made it work was the addition of a slim pencil. Strange as it seems, until now I had never even thought about adding a pencil, although a pencil is a natural (and as clear as mud) addition to a sharpener... While it would have made sense to add the pencil where it belongs, right in the sharpener, it wouldn't have worked as an image, at least not as I had envisioned it. So I stuck the tiny point of a very slim pencil into the small opening next to the blade on the sharpener's top, just so it would be visible when focusing on the inside of the hole where the pencil normally goes in.
As for the colours, they looked different in every single image. I've illuminated the scene with two LEDs and the usual makeshift colour filter suspects: red from the left, green from the right, and blue from the semi-transparent snack can lid that I'd placed behind the sharpener. There also was some sunshine from the living room window involved, and I'd used my small LED flashlight, set to spotlight, to illuminate the pencil point. I held the flashlight as far away from the setup as possible because otherwise, the highlights would have been blown out.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice spring/autumn week ahead!
Each Spring the tulip garden at Smith College's Capen Garden is mass planted with a different color(s). This year everything is beautiful lemony yellow.
If you're off to participate in any of the People's Climate Change Marches I'll be with you in spirit! The local community gardens officially open today and I'll be there at the Master Gardener table talking about soil & soil testing, "right plant right place", managing garden pests organically and, of course, pollinators. 😊🐝🌷
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#47 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Day one of my allium starting to to open...with the promise of beauty. I took another one today with it open a bit more.
Lensbaby Velvet 56
I took this one a few weeks ago as an alternative for the one colour theme.
Cotton buds in a little glass tea light holder which was given to me by one of the little children at the preschool I used to work at many years ago. Some things you just have to hang on to as they have a special meaning.