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A trip to Dorset to a nature reserve at Alners Gorse where I finally got to see the brown hair streak sitting very still for the shot. A good day out and met some knowledgable people too!
#MacroMondays
#Charm
Good luck is made of broken glass...
Two charms, different stories...
Charm No. 1: Yes, it's the bead I broke when I recently re-re-made my Mom's (magrit k.) necklace (please see the photo in the first comment and my album). You may wonder why it's golden when it was crystal-clear before. Well, I had mentioned that I wanted to re-re-re-make the necklace in Wabi-sabi and/or Kintsugi style because of the broken bead (Thank you all for your suggestions on how to repair it or replace the bead, much, much appreciated!) and I stumbled upon a tutorial where someone repaired a broken glass vase with waterproof super glue and golden mica powder. It sounded easy enough (it wasn't) so I thought I'd give it a try. In the tutorial, they made it so that, after gluing the parts together, they quickly powdered the mica stuff onto the glue before it dried. But: the vase was big, and the bead is... tiny, so there was no way I could have possibly applied the mica powder to the glued part only (hard to see anyway), so I properly buried the bead in mica powder and let it sit for a while. Next, I carefully brushed most of the powder off for the photo but didn't want to do too much to the bead because the glue needed 24 hours of rest. After waiting that long, I can now say that the repaired bead looks solid, the gluing seems to be stable – and the bead is permanently gold-speckled. I just hope the Rumpelstiltskin won't knock on my door now ;)
I gently placed the bead on a silver pendant: charm No. 2. The pendant is a true good luck charm that is with me wherever I go because I keep it on my keyring. I got the pendant for my 7th Birthday on a holiday in Italy. It has my zodiac sign, Cancer, engraved on the front and my first name and date of birth engraved on the back, just in case I should ever forget it ;) You can see the pendant properly in the second photo in the first comment. As background, I used a light blue glitter foam sheet (dull side up) and a white feather to create a soft, airy, high-key-ish (one might call it "blue-key") look. No focus stacking this time, but a single photo taken wide-open at F2.8 with the Laowa Ultra Macro lens.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice spring/autumn week ahead!
This is a multiple exposure...a fusion of a straight shot with the Lensbaby Sweet 22 and macro filters and an in camera double exposure with Lensbaby Velvet 56.
So, another tulip image for my 100 x challenge...that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes ;)
Photographed while exploring with Kiyoshi-san, Roger-kun, and Teruhide-san. Nanzen-ji, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto. November 30, 2015.
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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Or, what to do during a bomb cyclone. We lucked out and dodged the storm by about ten miles as the crow flies. Very lucky. A foretelling of future storms to come!
Three beads. So tiny, each almost impossible to align.
(The Laowa lens magnifies by two.)
embrace the sky with tiny arms
distill the light in our chest
and all the dark carried within
into a single crystal drop
and let it stream
from gentle fingers onto broken skin
and mend the cracks that seep strange dreams
of joy and pain
of sunrise and of dusk
of the beginning, of the end.
ignite forgiveness
oneness
love.
and heal.
Photographed while exploring with Alice-san, Kageyama-san, Lonny, Mamoru-san, and Yoshikatsu-san. Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. November 4, 2019.
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Time does not care about the weather. Neither does the weather care about the time.
Tick tock.
Happy Macro Mondays
It seems such a chore to comment.
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.
Lensbaby velvet 56
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 ;-))
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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Looking up at a single rose in front of the exterior of a home in Essex, England. Taken with the Canon 5D and their 50mm 1.4 lens with a shallow depth of field of f/2.5.
I knew I had these two but finding them was a whole other matter.
I thought two birds are better than one.
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...If You Can...
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#Container
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!
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. :)