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Not really. It's just brass, but I picked these 2 out because I liked their golden glow. I've no idea where they came from, but they've probably been sitting in the tool box for many years. Keep it long enough and everything has its day. :)
For this week's Macro Mondays theme, Screw.
I was trying to take photos of a beautiful tulip I'd been given, which had lovely frilly petals, and feeling frustrated because I couldn't get anything to work. Just then, 2 petals fell off a small tulip from a cheap supermarket bunch and floated down in front of it. So, I'm afraid this wasn't really planned. It just happened. :)
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Another phone shot today. We took our little grandson to the local museum. They have lots of events and some great activities for children. I also managed to get a photo or two of these vintage signs. I love anything like this. The museum used to sell copies of old local posters and several years ago I bought a couple and had then framed for my stair wall. Maybe that's a photo for another day.
We don't have very much snow here. If fact not much this season at all. This is a bit of cold stuff sitting on a faded red deck chair. I thought this would work.
Happy Macro Mondays
This dwarf tree was here when we moved here. Hawthorn berries, perhaps.
Looked a tad dark as if this is a dark and rainy day ;-)) I lightened it a bit with a curve.
Comments unnecessary. Not all of you like dark and rainy days ;-))
I happened to catch this little sawfly just before it took off.
This is specifically the bottlebrush sawfly, Pterygophorus cinctus.
Despite the common name, sawflies are not flies. They sit within order Hymenoptera, but within a separate suborder to wasps/ants/bees, namely Symphyta.
Sawflies do not possess the distinctive thin waist of the other hymenopterans, nor do they possess a sting. The common name comes from the female's saw-like egg-laying tube, which she uses to make a slit in a plant leaf or stem, into which she lays her eggs.
Our Australian sawfly larvae feed mainly on native trees and shrubs, such as eucalypts, paperbarks and bottlebrushes (although a small number of species are parasitic).
15 mm body length.
Link to image of the larval stage: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/51113646235/in/photol...
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More experiments with a shallow depth of field ...
Charles Fort is a star fort located on the water's edge, at the southern end of the village of Summer Cove, on Kinsale harbour, County Cork.
Charles Fort - Kinsale - Ireland
Constructed last fall, and photographed after the deadly winter storm that knocked out the power grid for millions of Texans. Texan public utilities are as greedy as spiders, but less capable of building resilient structures. Maybe in time, they will evolve.
12 Apr 2021; 09:30 CDT; shot in Provia, converted to B&W
....Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness...Iain S Thomas from the book - I wrote this for you.
Sorry (not sorry) it's another tulip...there will probably be lots more in my 100. I can't help myself, they are just so beautiful at every stage. These are from the supermarket but once mine start blooming in the garden I can't promise they won't be photographed...if I can get low enough! ;)
Lensbaby Sol 45 with macro filters
My most recent guitar purchase is a Fender Squier 12 string Paranormal guitar. It is a lovely metallic green.
Happy Macro Mondays
This was the first of many stray cats met on the Tomonoura adventure. I love Tomonoura! Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima-ken, Japan. November 26, 2015.
...If You Can...
#MacroMondays
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This is a detail of a small soy sauce container shaped like a fish that I took along from a nice sushi restaurant years ago because it looked/looks so cute. These "soy-sauce snappers" or "shoyu-tai" were invented in Japan in the 1950s to replace glass or ceramic bottles. Apparently, one can still buy them everywhere (at the big river, the big bay, and at other online stores) by the hundreds, but one shouldn't, of course, because they are made of plastic, and, as we all know, throw-away, single-use items made of plastic are a huge problem for the oceans and other waters. Microplastic particles have even been found in crystal clear, actually clean, and very remote lakes, so it's high time to return to glass or ceramic bottles for takeaway dishes. I will keep my cute little soy sauce fish so it won't end up anywhere where it could impose danger to the very creature it represents.
Size info: The part of the soy sauce container visible in my image is 3 cm/1,18 inches. This is a single image processed only in DXO PL6 and Lightroom. The setup was super simple, too: With modeling clay, I "glued" the fish onto a small glass jar to get the right height and placed it in front of blue glitter foam sheet (dull side up). I illuminated the little scene witn an LED photo lamp (natural light) from above, a warm-light LED lamp from the left, and a handheld flashlight (set on "spot") from the right to highlight the eye. That's it.
HMM Everyone, and have a nice autumn/spring week ahead!
The last light of the day sets over the mountains of Glen Coe, viewed from Glencoe Mountain Resort on a very crisp December afternoon.
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Barry came to the lookout with me. He also gave me a thumbs up on my new song. Okay a paws up. I have been working hard on my music. I hope you like it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovxb-7AHhMI
Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday
In his nearly 17 years (as of 4/2020), Chico (shee-ku) had not learned to use a computer, but he sure learned to exploit them--he bumped them and rubbed them, laid on them and stood in front of them knowing that he'd get some attention. 😉
Sadly, Chico passed away in April 2022, at nearly 19 years of age, of stomach cancer. He was always a lover and a charmer and full of life and character. He was loved by many and is greatly missed.
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April 2022: A month in 30 pictures
Back home after a couple of days away and trying to catch up with everything.
I picked some bluebells from the garden without thinking about what to put with them. The vintage magazine is blue, so are the tea bags and cup and saucer. It just didn't work in colour though. I tucked the hymn sheet in too.
Used Tools:
Sony A7 Mark II
Sigma MC-11
Canon EF 70200/2.8 L IS II USM
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Uh...a german title. Why he is doing that? :) Don´t know, I felt like it. Have a great week ahead!
Used Tools:
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Samyang 135/2
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