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October 2025: A month in 31 pictures
#79 in my 100 x challenge - 100 Lensbaby images.
Griselda is making an appearance since it's 'shocktober', she's been in hiding since last year along with her wretched pets who somehow escaped.
Lensbaby Composer Pro II with Edge 50 optic
31 days of Lensbaby.
My poinsettia on a black background, lit with an LED light.
Lensbaby Sweet 22 with macro filters.
A shallow depth of field view up a jack pine (Pinus banksiana - Pinaceae) with peeling bark and a pleasant bokeh in northern Wisconsin
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This was taken at Sussex Prairie Garden not long before it closed for the season. It feels like a long time until the garden opens again at the beginning of June next year, but I'm already looking forward to spending more time there. It's one of my happy places. :)
"I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain."
~Anne Lamott, author
An attempt in the style of Monique . About as shot.
Saturday Self Challnege
"Shallow Depth of Field" in black and white"
This should be a good challenge with lots of things to consider when taking your photo. Your subject can be anything you choose.
I had a couple of shots lined up for this challenge but eventually decided on this one. The photo is of one of the rails and a couple of ropes on a fishing vessel, it’s moored among several others in Padstow Harbour.
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Snow cinquefoil (Potentilla nivalis)
Olympus E-P5 + Minolta MC Rokkor PF 58mm f1.4 + extension tube.
Sawn yesterday in Munich on our way to a christmas party.
Only a short stop and taken out of hand.
Used Tools:
Sony A7 (yes, the old one)
Sony FE 35/1.4 Zeiss Distagon
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More than a year ago, an photo of an laying leaf had the same title. Still love it in this context. So i made a newerversion with a new toy :)
Used Tools:
Sony A7 Mark II
Cyclop 85/1.5 (also known as Helios 40-2, but without aperture blades and this was originally made for the use on a nightscope with M42 Mount).
7DWF CTT: Round
“Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.” David Carson
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Photographed on an epic day of Osaka sanpo with Charlie-san, Fukuda-san, Fumi-san, Hazm, Hitomi-san, Kenji-san, Kiyoko-san, Larry, Maeda-san, Minoru-san, Mitsuru-san, Nakamura-san, sakemoge, Scott, sonnar-san, soyokaze ojisan, Take-san, Takea-san, Tomo-san, Yamada-san, Yoshi-san, and Yume-san. Tennoji-ku, Osaka. November 19, 2017.
At last we have some sunshine here in the UK but it's still very windy making it difficult for flower photography. This effect was not due to the wind though, it's down to the Lensbaby Double Glass II and Omni gold swiss cheese along with macro filters. I thought the effect looked a little like movement...hence the title.
Thank you all for your views, faves and comments...all very much appreciated.
The weekly/monthly challenge - I'm using this one for two themes - Sunflare and Sunset. Okay, it's more bokeh than sun flare but artistic licence and all that!
We were out walking yesterday when I looked back to see the view and just had to take a photo. I had a manual lens on my camera (my new Lensbaby Twist 60) and this is what I saw so decided not to adjust the focus. I'm pretty sure this could be improved greatly (the sky for instance) but I just loved the blur and orange bokeh balls.
Edit: Apologies to those who had already commented or faved but I decided to crop the expanse of empty sky off into more of a letterbox and replace the image. I think it works better. I am having to stay up with a poorly dog so had a bit of time on my hands.
I love visiting gardens - local favourites are Borde Hill and Sussex Prairie Garden - but I probably enjoy photographing flowers in my own garden more than anywhere else. Most of the gardens close to the public at 5pm, missing the warm evening light. This Cosmos grew from a pack of mixed seeds and is now very tall. I love the colour.
tiny parts (barbules, I think) of green coloured feathers, taken with the 60mm Laowa ultra-macro lens (2× magnification)
52 in 2023 challenge: #34 = Plain
(plain coloured)
I hope you have a pleasant weekend 💚
We moved to the beautiful state of Colorado from Minnesota when I was a young girl about 9 or 10 years old and I have lived here ever since. And I don't see us moving to anywhere else.
This was taken in my sister in laws beautiful green house!
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"
28 Jan 2021; 07:48 CST