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Crazy Tuesday - theme of March 12, 2019 - Blue is the colour
I was grocery shopping yesterday evening when I saw this blue creature (called "Blue Moon" on the tag)
Although I don't have a sweet tooth (besides beeing "crazy" for dark chocolate - see my last image for Crazy Tuesday) I couldn't resist to buy this blue treat so I could take a quick pic for Crazy Tuesday
(I initially planned to skip this week - like MM - due to heavy workload - but here you are: just for fun ;)
This is a very close up of this iced donut: the sprinkles are 1 mm in diameter
Happy Crazy Tuesday, everyone!
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für die Gruppe "Verrückter Dienstag" - Thema: Blau ist die Farbe
Ich habe derzeit leider nicht so viel Zeit für Flickr... hätte fast eine Runde ausgesetzt...
Dann war ich Lebensmittel einkaufen und sah diesen blauen Donut (vom Verkäufer liebevoll "Blue Moon" getauft). Ich stehe so gar nicht auf Süßes (mit Ausnahme von dunkler Schokolade) oder Kuchen / Gebäck, aber für das Dienstagsthema habe ich dann doch eine Ausnahme gemacht ... und freiwillige Abnehmer finden sich auch ;)
Sehr starke Nahaufnahme - die Streusel haben einen Durchmesser von nur 1 mm
I bought two roses yesterday. I mistreated the first one by dunking it in wine and forcing it to be a photo subject for a fair time. That rose is alive and well.
This second rose got no mistreatment. Properly cut and cared for -- but today it was dropping, miserably. Fine, droop, I thought, but I am still getting a picture out of you.
But it needed a backdrop...so I stuck it into a potted astilbe that's waiting for transplant. Worked perfectly.
A little shallow depth of field, a bit of fancy spot metering, and I had me a shot. Actually, several shots, but I'm saving a few for my flower noir series.
The sun was playing cat and mouse with me -- it was like catching a fly. I'd sit back down to eat my supper, and the sun would sneak out. I'd grabbed the camera and settle in for the shot...and the sun would slip away. I swear it was laughing.
Blessings,
Sheree
a small bit of lichen captures a drop of rainwater on the side of a tree with an orange bokeh from the tree's fall colors
Eagle River, Wisconsin
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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
Hi There!
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.
Thank you for taking the time to stop by and for your comments. I do love hearing from you. Have a wonderful day!
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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
Flickr. There are low numbers in your membership. Please bring back our contact feeds. They made things so much easier.
I must confess, I helped the dew along a little. There is no dew here in the morning other than in my imagination. The state is bone dry, fires are raging out of control, people are loosing their homes. I'm trying to pretend I'm living in a moister, gentler time and space.
I'm going to need more than a spritz bottle if the flames come for my house.
SMC Takumar 55mm f1.8
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
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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.