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Isn't it striking how you look at images - and their possible meaning - differently at different times ?
I hope we will get back to some kind of ease sometime in 2021. Until then please stay safe and take care !
Edit: Analog Efex with very gentle "Motion Blur" and "Zoom" at the edges of the image
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"Was hast du gesagt? Keine Ansammlung?"
Ist es nicht bemerkenswert, wie man Bilder - und deren mögliche Bedeutung - zu verschiedenen Zeiten anders betrachtet ?
Ich hoffe, dass irgendwann in 2021 wieder etwas mehr Leichtigkeit einkehrt. Passt bis dahin bitte auf euch auf !
Edit: Analog Efex mit ganz leichter "Bewegungsunschärfe" und "Zoom" am Bildrand
The bluebells have been coming out gradually over this week, and with warmer days predicted I'm hoping to make a trip to one of the bigger bluebell woods over the next week or so when they should hopefully be in full bloom.
a wooden barrel with a rusty barrel hoop (on the left) and a just as rusty nail ... seen on a Sunday stroll through the fields.
This barrel is used as a plant tub in a garden now - and I loved its very rusty look : ))
width of this image: no more than about 4 cm (I measured it with my thumb ; ))
Macro Mondays - theme of 22nd March, 2021: Rust
Happy Macro Monday, everyone !
(I will be browsing later in the evening due to work)
I found an older Monopoly game at a Flea Market a few years ago. I love it. All the classic pieces were within it. Visually it is such a lovely board game.
Happy Macro Mondays
#12/52, Shallow Depth of field, 52 weeks in 2020
Let's try to think about the flowers about to burst forth in their pink lushness and not the surrounding gloom. Stay well, friends, and keep in touch!
It's always pleasant to see these flowers during Spring season.😌🌸
Cercis canadensis, the eastern redbud, is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, native to eastern North America from southern Michigan south to central Mexico, east to New Jersey. Species thrive as far west as California and as far north as southern Ontario, roughly corresponding to USDA hardiness zone 6b. It is the state tree of Oklahoma.
Higher classification: Cercis
Scientific name: Cercis canadensis
Family: Fabaceae
Order: Fabales
Class: Magnoliopsida
Biological rank: Species
Subspecies: Cercis canadensis var. texensis · Cercis canadensis subsp. texensis · Cercis canadensis var. orbiculata · Cercis canadensis var. canadensis · Ce…
Symbol of: Oklahoma
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Where has the summer gone ;-) End of July at the beach
The Netherlands
Tried a high key / high contrast processing to accentuate the graphical characteristics of the image
Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday - HMBT
Day 223/365:
I thought I'd try something a bit different today. I placed the rose in front of one of my images on the computer screen. Then made this image using macro lens and Omni crystals. The screen image isn't really visible, just adds to the overall background effect. The faint, yellow rose is the result of one of the Omni crystals.
Day 181/365:
Another busy day...is there any other kind? My long lens was still on the camera so I took it into the front garden to photograph the lavender. Another double exposure with the first exposure blurred, just to add a bit of softness.
The weekly/monthly challenge - red and green
I had planned to do the MM theme for today and double up for red and green but I have a very poorly Bruno and I was up all night with him and needed to look after him today. He has been to see the vet and got some medicine which we hope will help him.
So here is the colour version of one I took in October and converted to black and white.
#25 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Smile on Saturday - Flowers in March
I'm getting quite a lot of mileage from this tulip, hopefully more to come.
Lensbaby Velvet 56
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend
Tulip album: www.flickr.com/photos/28992287@N03/albums/72157665899084647/
The Cape Daisies are blooming :)
Many thanks for all the kind comments and faves on my images and stay safe out there everyone.
You need a haircut ;)
#MacroMonday
#Redux
#Brush
#High Key (sort of)
Please press "Z".
I've missed so many themes in 2020, so there was plenty to choose from – but the "Brush" theme from March actually wasn't on top of my list of what to do for Redux at all; in fact when I flipped through my "MM 2020" folder I even noticed that I'd skipped the theme already back in March: So how should I be able to come up with a nice photo just now?
Well, first of all there is this new brush that I've just bought and which is still in it's "virgin" state, because I thought I'd take a macro of it before I start using it in undoubtely futile attempts at taming my by now totally come apart haircut. So far, so boring. And I really thought that the first few test shots were kind of boring, until... well, until I looked at them on the monitor and noticed this perfectly sharp reflection of the bristles in the round tip of one single bristle (which is only 3 mm / 0,11 inches long). Something I hadn't even noticed while taking the photo.
Unfortunately, this first chance hit wasn't such a well composed image, because the in focus bristles are not where one would like to see them (rule of thirds), so I tried to reproduce the reflection. Have you ever used a magnifying glass to check your camera screen? This is what I did. And while I managed to get sharper, better composed images, I wasn't able to reproduce that clear and sharp reflection; I got reflections, but they never looked as nice and bright as the one(s) I got in my first attempt. So I decided to go with what I already had, clumsy composition or not. I thought about cropping the image, but that would have taken away the nice bokeh and golden sheen (light reflected by a piece of golden tinfoil) from the upper part of my image. What I also like are those "eyes" on the bristle tips, although they seem to say "Forget it, you'll never get your hair right!" ;)
HMM, Everyone! I wish you a Happy, Healthy New Year. Let's hope 2021 will be a better year than 2020. Stay safe and take care!
#macromondays
#Redux
#Vintage
#LowKey
#MyClosest
Inspiration came late for 2022's Redux theme, and it came with another watch – one that you've already seen for the "Curvy Lines" theme (please check the first comment).
The main theme I've redone here is "Vintage", and the capture also seems to be a mixture of "High Key" and "Low Key", so one might call this a "Mid Key" photo ;) There also is a touch of "My Closest" in this image, because although the frame itself isn't that tiny (the scene's height is roughly 1,5 cm/0,59 inches), I was very close to the watch itself, because the UV filter I use as protection for my 30mm macro lens was touching the lower left corner of the watch's glass. The watch itself isn't vintage in the sense of "old", it's a new model, but it's from Casio's "Vintage" collection, and the design itself is vintage, too, an original 1970s digital wristwatch design. By the way, my Dad's wristwatch which I had photographed for the original "Vintage" theme and which miraculously had started working again during that photoshoot is still running :)
Technically, this is a single photo illuminated by a single soft photo light from above. This time, I also didn't use any of my colour filters. The iridescent rainbow colours which I find so very irresistible come from the "ion plating" that has been applied to the stainless steel. I also decided to leave most of the tiny dust grains (and of course, I had polished the watch beforehand) in the image, because once again they reminded me of stars. So maybe we should begin to call the inevitable macro photo dust: stardust :) And please forgive the stupid title, I couldn't think of anything better ;)
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, see you all for the first Macro Monday in (and the first day of) 2023 next week :) A special greeting goes to the MM members from the United States and Canada: I hope that all of you managed to stay safe and warm during the terrible blizzard. Keep safe, and take good care!
on the fence of my balcony. (The fence is one meter away from the window.)
Captured through window with 100 mm Canon lens, f 2.8, hand held, focus on birds.
CrazyTuesday#Open aperture
HCT!
What's beyond the Yellow Brick Road?
The bird knows
Elton John sung about it., maybe he knows?
Sorry to take the mystery out of it but...
Shallow depth of field taken directly along the top of a wall covered in yellow moss overlooking a 'choppy' sea
Oh... and the bird flew off!
I love CA poppies and here in the desert, we can only enjoy them for about three months. Every winter I try and plant some. This year they were difficult to find but I managed to plant about nine. Other colors will follow.
Hello There!
There was a clump of Rose Mallows that caught my eye on a recent walk. This is one of the buds that was starting to unfurl. To my eye, its shape reminded me of the pinwheels that we played with when we were kids.
Thank you so much for stopping by and for your comments. I do appreciate hearing from you! Have a wonderful day!
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Explored July 4, 2023
#MacroMondays
#Feather
Plume grass is an extremely rare type of grass that can only be found in the deep sea in light-flooded caves (illuminated by the just as rare but permanently glowing deep sea rainbow) or above the clouds. I couldn't verify the origin of this specific bunch of plume grass, because it had materialized itself on my photo (aka living room) table out of nowhere. OK, joking aside, "nowhere" is a small paper bag that I keep in my original MM box (numerous boxes have followed since) in which I've carefully stored this feather ever since I found it on the ground in front of an outdoor owl cage/compound at the Tierpark Berlin back in 2017. The owl inhabiting said cage had eyed me suspiciously all the time plus its plumage colour and pattern were very similar to that of this feather, so it was pretty sure that owl's feather.
The feather, or rather the part of it I'd found (it looks as if it had broken off because the quill is missing), is very fluffy and delicate, and it has a white/light brown zigzag-like pattern. The entire length of the feather is 6,5 cm/2,5 inches, and the (upper) part of the feather that you can see in my image has a length of 2 cm/0,78 inches and a width of 4 cm/1,5 inches..
Since a feather is all about airiness, freedom, and a creature soaring the sky up above I thought I'd use a bright blue backdrop for a change. I still didn't know how to add a little more vivacity to the feather itself, since while beautiful it isn't exactly colourful with its muted tones that suit a predator well as camouflage. My makeshift colour filters didn't work too well for the scene I had in mind because they coloured the backdrop as well. But the sunshine came to my rescue. I keep all sorts of stuff on the window sill, like a sundial, and also rocks and crystals, and among these "dust collectors" also is a huge, diamond-shaped glass crystal. Its facets conjure lovely rainbow-coloured light reflections onto the wall and the window sill when hit by the sunlight at the right angle. And when I noticed the sparkle, I thought "That's it, hooray!" :) Not that it is easy to direct the rainbow sparkles to a specific subject, it was a lot of hit-and-miss, but in the end, I once again had a few images to choose from. I also took a few images of a plain white feather that actually reflects the rainbow light much better, but since I had to make a choice, this image made it mainly because of the white bokeh balls in the upper right corner (probably light reflections from the glass crystal as well) because they reminded me of sunlight shining through a very clear water surface (or of a small fleecy cloud), illuminating a beautiful "underwater scape".
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
Die Geheimnisse meines Gartens. Ihr wolltet den Duft schnuppern können.
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That could really make you jealous. These roses knock me out every morning – actually all day when I pass them ;-) And they are also a little frenzy of colour. How lucky that they want to do their best this summer ...
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Das könnte Euch wirklich neidisch machen. Diese Rosen hauen mich jeden Morgen um –ja eigentlich den ganzen Tag, wenn ich an ihnen vorbeikomme ;-) Und ein kleiner Farbrausch sind sie auch. Was für ein Glück, dass sie diesen Sommer ihr bestes geben wollen ...
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Pentacon / 135 mm / 1:2.8
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the secrets of my garden:
#MacroMonday
#Sound
For "Sound" it had to be my violin. If I don't play it (and I know I should, but, oh dear, the overcoming!), I can at least honour it with a bit of Flickr sunshine from time to time. Maybe I should work on my "scratch resitance" (sound-wise), it might help me to get over the first caterwauling hours of exercise after so many years of not practicing ;-)
This, you've guessed it, is a small part of the F hole, about 2 cm / 0,78 inches wide. I decided to go for a slightly more "obscure", kind of vague low key look with a very shallow DOF, because when it comes to music, sound in general, it often is not very clear at all why we like a song, a specific sound, or why we positively hate it. Sound, music moves us, either way.
I have a busy day today, so I can only stop by here today occasionally, I hope to catch up with you later! HMM, Everyone, and have a nice and safe week ahead!
Für das Thema "Sound" musste es meine Geige sein. Wenn ich sie schon nicht spiele (ich sollte, ich weiß, aber die Überwindung!), kann ich ihr wenigstens von Zeit zu Zeit ein wenig Flickr-Sonnenschein gönnen. Vielleicht sollte ich an meiner (klanglichen) Kratzfestigkeit arbeiten, um, nach so langer Zeit des Nichtspielens, die ersten Stunden des Katzenjammers zu überstehen, bis es wieder rund klingt ;-)
Dies ist, Ihr habt es schon erraten, ein Teil des F-Lochs. Ich habe hier bewusst auf geringe Schärfentiefe gesetzt, um den Charakter von Musik, von Klang generell zu verbildlichen. Wir können ja oft gar nicht definieren, warum wir ein Musikstück mögen oder einen bestimmten Klang geradzu hassen. Musik, Klang bewegt, so oder so.
Ich habe heute viel zu tun und kann hier nur gelegentlich reinschauen. Ich hoffe, heute Abend wieder mehr Zeit für Euch und auch den MM zu haben. Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne neue Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, passt gut auf Euch auf!
Ob es wohl piekst? Oder kitzelt es nur?
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Okay ... I dared, I'm really brave ;-) And what do you think – did I have bleeding fingertips like Sleeping Beauty? Well ... I'm definitely not a princess and my fingers are tough ;-)
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Okay ... ich habe mich getraut, ich bin ja ungemein mutig ;-) Und, was meint Ihr – hatte ich blutende Fingerspitzen so wie Dornröschen? Na gut ... ich bin auf gar keinen Fall eine Prinzessin und meine Finger sind abgehärtet ;-)
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#LookingCloseOnFriday / #Spiky / #Espinoso
Dogwood blossoms with a Crabapple bokeh. As soon as I saw the way this turned out in my camera, I thought of "sky blue pink" which was my father's favorite color. Miss you, dad. 💗💗
2/31: April 2021: A month in 30 pictures
Looking close on Friday - Blossoming Trees
I saw this magnolia tree on my walk today. The focus isn't quite where I wanted it as it was very windy so the flowers were moving a lot. Also when I got home I realised I'd had IS switched off. I didn't have time to take another photo.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend and a Happy Easter if you celebrate it.
Just love the colours at this time of year. The light seems to result in such colourful bokeh which I find very uplifting.
Many thanks for all the kind comments and faves on my images.
"I won't let the darkness
hide my inner light,
I will burn with the brightest
stars in the night"
~ Christy Anne Martine
I discovered this beauty on an evening / night stroll on our last vacation day - the bokeh bubbles are the lights of a hotel in the background which iluminated the blossom a bit, too
... I know there's some banding and noise in the image as I had to brighten it up a bit. But I like it nonetheless as I have fond memories of that night (including a delicious dinner out overlooking a beautiful sunset)
I am back from our vacation and I will try to catch up this weekend ... but bear with me: my mind is still in the mountains and doesn't want to come back home yet ; ))
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... ich habe diese hübsche Rose auf einem Abendspaziergang an unserem letzten Urlaubstag in Südtirol entdeckt - die Bokeh-Bubbles sind die Lichter eines Hotels im Hintergrund, die auch der Rose noch ein wenig Licht schenkten
Ich werde versuchen, an diesem Wochenende "aufzuholen" und bei euch vorbeizuschauen - aber seid bitte nachsichtig, ich bin in Gedanken noch in den Bergen : ))
... asks the little ant, not trusting the strange vehicle in front of it ... maybe it shouldn't go ; ))
Crazy Tuesday - theme of October 19, 2021: Ant's Point of View
Stay safe, everybody !!
I will catch up this evening !
Looking back at us,
A drop of water reflects
On a simpler time.
African Iris, Dietes iridioides, our front yard. Macro on tripod, which I could manage with one good hand. Map location is generic.
Revised title. The original was “Inner Realms”, but “Looking Back” is deeper and more representative of the image.
You past away but my memories still are here. And a person is just gone if we do not think about him anymore. Tomorrow, the 14th of November is your Birthday and i keep our lifetime moments in my heart!
Tracks in the sand
One night I had a dream:
I was walking along the sea with my master.
Against the dark night sky
shone, like streaks of light,
images from my life.
And each time I saw two footprints in the sand,
my own and my master's.
When the last image passed my eyes
I looked back.
I was startled to discover
that in many places of my life's journey
there was only a trace to be seen.
And those were the hardest times of my life.
times of my life.
Concerned, I asked the Lord:
"Lord, when I began to follow you,
you promised me
to be with me in all my ways.
But now I discover
that in the hardest times of my life
there is only a trace in the sand.
Why did you leave me alone
when I needed you most?"
Then he answered, "My dear child,
I love you and will never leave you alone,
especially in times of need and difficulty.
There, where you have seen only a trace
you have seen,
I have carried you."
#Mittwochsmakro
#MacroMondaysOuttake
#Keepsake
I don't post MM outtakes often anymore, but this time it had been a really difficult choice between two images, and I also didn't want this image to end up in a permanent hard drive slumber. So here is MM choice No 2 that simply didn't make it to the group's pool because it looks a little weird (I like it weird, though), and not as elegant as my official upload. Most of the weirdness here probably derives from the fact that I had taken some photos with the watch placed upside down (and rotated this one to the left twice in LR) because it was easier to get a clear image of the 12 and the moving cursor at the same time this way.
Some of you may know that my Dad's watch had officially been declared "out of order for good" by a watchmaker many years ago and that it had miraculously started to work again when I photographed it for our November 2022 theme "Vintage". Well, I'm happy to say that it still runs happily and steadily, and this so much so that it runs really fast because it apparently always likes to be ahead of (the correct) time – but that doesn't matter at all as long as it keeps working ;)
What surprisingly also still works, is the lume on the hour and minute hand, even if it only glows for a few seconds after being activated by a strong light source. In this image, however, the lume glows courtesy of a few Lightroom sliders ("Lightlume") because it had not even crossed my mind to activate the lume during my MM Keepsake photo shoot. To make it look glowing, I masked the lume part, increased the whites, and tweaked the tone in the white balance menu. The fan-like effect on the moving second hand once again is a result of using the in-camera Live ND filter. And the colourful texture in the upper left corner is the Nato strap I keep the watch on. The watch has an unusual 19mm lug width and curved spring bars on top of that, and an 18mm Nato strap was the easiest way to fit it with a fresh-looking new strap (ordered from Esprit Nato in Paris because that's the only store that offers almost all the different colours and patterns a Nato strap can have with gold hardware).
Happy Mittwochsmakro, and happy hump day as well :)