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Day 161/365:
I took my camera out today with just my Lensbaby Sweet 35 optic, to try to get to grips with it. It's not my favourite Lensbaby. I overlaid a blurred sea/sky image that I also made today...I used an Omni filter with that one.
Apologies for my lack of comments still. We are away from home and apart from being out and about, the internet here is very intermittent. Plus I have to use my phone as a hotspot and it uses a lot of data. I should start be more involved in few days time.
Lensbaby Sweet 35
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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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 !!
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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Number 160 of my 365 photo challenge - A split-toned landscape image of a cat walking down the railway line in the evening Spring sunshine. Taken using a long lens and a shallow depth of field.
Talk about being in the right place at the right time! :-)
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).
#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!
#71 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Anything goes 2021 - Focus is overrated - a deliberately out of focus image.
This is a garden with a grey gate, and a wall with a rose hanging over. I took a double exposure with my Sweet 35. This is the first image which I deliberately blurred and I quite liked it as a standalone image for the theme. I may post the double exposure too at some point.
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
Photographed while exploring with Junko-san and Teruhide-san. Omihachiman, Shiga-ken, Japan. November 12, 2019.