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Last minute capture for "Symmetry": The small pencil crown you've seen a few times before in MM themes, placed behind a steel limescale catcher for symmetrical bokeh. The limescale catcer is made of tangled steel wire(s). If you like tea, I'm sure you have seen one before or are using it. These limescale catchers come in different shapes. Mine is bone-shaped, with two large round wire rings on each side connected by a smaller ring or "tunnel" piece. I don't know how it is made but it seems to be one piece, one long wire tangled up and shaped. It's a very effective way to keep your water kettle fairly clean of limescale. Come to think of it, a limescale catcher would also make a great dreamcatcher because every possible nightmare would be hopelessly tangled up in it forever...
The image is a single shot, illuminated from above with a natural light photo lamp and from the left and the right with my regular LEDs with warmer light.
HMM, Everyone!
Day 27/365:
We saw a very interesting demonstration in a mill today. Wool is made into a sliver before being spun. this is what a sliver looks like. At the bottom of the image there is also just a sliver of the tub they are stored in.
Lensbaby Velvet 56
Apologies for the lack of commenting. We are staying on a farm in the middle of nowhere so have very poor internet connection. It's taking me forever to post my daily images but I am trying not to fall behind with posting. I will attempt to catch up in a few days.
Photographed while exploring with Mari and NJ. Deeley Exhibition, Boundary Road, Vancouver. September 20, 2015.
Tibetan Lung Ta (horizontal) prayer flags on a fence in our community gardens. Meant to be in continuous flight the flags send their prayers for peace, compassion, strength, and wisdom on the winds to all the world.
Each flag color symbolizes an element. In order: blue (sky), white (air & wind), red (fire), green (water), and yellow (earth). In Tibetan tradition all five elements in balance will produce health and harmony. Apt prayers as we end another week marred by senseless violence, in Manchester and around the world, and look for harmony, compassion and wisdom. HFF. ❣️
Saint-Severin / Paris
HSS!
We were visiting the church in the evening partly during a church service. This gave a special atmosphere to our visit. The music we heart during the service reminded me of Gregorian music. So I searched for one to link to this image. When I was photographing in the church I was happy to find real candles that were lit.
I tried to create an image that through a shallow depth of field get a more contemplative character. I wanted the candles to be sharp and the little painting blurred. Took me quite some attempts.
Job - Chant grégorien de l'abbaye de Fontfroide (Complies cisterciennes) Paris
Theme: shallow depth of field
Possible for Macro Mondays, lens wide open.
Let me know if you cannot view the tape measure at almost 2 centimeters/centimetres.
You would not believe how much snow we have!! We have maybe three times as much as you see in this photo! It’s amazing, and a little scary. But hey, provided that the power stays on, and there’s hot coffee/tea, I’m good. ;)
More snowy photos (I hope) to come in the days ahead. I hope that you enjoy them! HBM!
While enjoying the lovely sunshine in the garden yesterday i noticed this little Mullein moth caterpillar doing the same :)
Closeup of beautiful small wild flowers I found while walking along the Amish farms in the town of Romulus, New York.
Finger Lakes region near Cayuga Lake (July 2022)!
Image taken with Nikon D7500 camera and Tamron 18-400mm lens.
‘Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia is a section within Streptocarpus subgenus Streptocarpella consisting of about ten species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Tanzania and adjacent southeastern Kenya in eastern tropical Africa.’
*Bellstedt, Dirk U. "Streptocarpus: Geographical Distribution and Ecology".
The Gesneriad Reference Web.
Size of bud = 0.25 inches/0.6cm
"Merry: Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.
Pippin: What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?"
― Peter Jackson from "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" movie screenplay.
This squirrel definitely knows about elevensies. A foggy morning in Hermann Park, Houston, Texas.
Experimenting. About 2cm/0.79 inches across. (My Laowa 60mm magnifies by two.)
My spouse took apart another watch. Couldn't pass up the chance to play in black and white.
"Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me."
'Dream a Little Dream of Me' - a beautiful song written way back in the 1930s and sung by just about everyone, including Ella Fitzgerald and the Mamas & the Papas.
7 Days With Flickr - Crazy Tuesday Theme: "Jars / Bottles"
Macro Mondays - theme of June 17, 2019: Curves (i.e. leading lines)
"A cup of tea would restore my normality."
- Douglas Adams
... a lovely cup of tea at my mum's at Sunday afternoon ... when I saw it I remembered this weeks theme of Macro Mondays ... and there it went, my "normality" :D
width of this image (including negative space): 7 cm
Happy Macro Monday, everyone !! :)
I will be browsing late this evening due to work
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Macro Mondays - Thema: Kurven / Rundungen (im Sinne von führenden Linien)
Teezeit !!
Ich werde erst spät bei Macro Mondays vorbeischauen können ... HMM :)
life on a log
with my thanks for being in this peaceful spot...
where the leprechaun roam
well.. at least on st. patrick's day ;-)
forgive me for deleting group comment codes...
they're not my thing.. tho I do appreciate the visit!
for 'Crazy Tuesday' - theme of December 10, 2019: Fill the frame with Gold or Silver
I had barely any time to take pictures at home this week ... so I took my camera almost everywhere I went ... and came upon this Christmas decoration at a department store:
Towers of golden gift / hat boxes. You see the top box of one of those towers - the golden hues in the background are further towers / pyramids with golden boxes.
Sorry, not really crazy - but there is at least a little bit of glitter : ))
Happy Crazy Tuesday everyone !!
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Weihnachtsdekoration in einem Kaufhaus:
Goldene Geschenkschachtel (Hutbox) und Schleife ... die gold-beige Färbung im Hintergrund stammt ebenfalls von einer goldenen Schachtel ... es waren ganze Türme / Pyramiden damit gebildet
für die Gruppe 'Verrücker Dienstag' - Fülle den Rahmen mit Gold oder Silber
1/31: October 2022: A month in 31 pictures
Last year I made fabric pumpkins, this year I am crocheting them.
I took two shots of the pumpkins, one for the 365 and one for the October challenge. The other one is in comments.
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Wee spring onion, about 4cm across/1.57 inches across horizontally.
These spring onions certainly left an oniony smell in my office! Phew... And such tiny things, too!
Forget me not flowers dedicated to my lovely dad who passed away a few months ago... Dementia is such a cruel illness, memories are precious ❤️
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