A close knolling of staple blocks.

Staple Island : petite île rocheuse, ou skerry, qui fait partie du groupe extérieur des îles Farne dans le Northumberland, en Angleterre/Staple Island: a small rocky island, or skerry, that is one of the Outer Group of the Farne Islands in Northumberland, England.

Macro mondays : Theme - Copper

A macro of a stack of staples

Series: A walk through Berlin in February 2023

A macro of a stack of staples

The Somerset village of Staple Fitzpaine... snowbound.

Staples

We visited for the first time a few weeks ago on a circular hike taking in Roos Tor and White Tor as well. It was one of those days which promised sunshine and decent temperatures but Dartmoor does have its own micro-climate and arriving at the car park we were greeted by storm-like gusts. Of course we did not pack anything for colder or windy weather so the first half of the walk I tried to convince the rest of the family that it will get better at some point - thankfully it eventually did and while we could not really enjoy the magnificent rock formations of Great Staple Tor for very long (that was still part of the windy and chilly parts of the walk), the rest of the walk provided some fabulous locations and memories!

For anyone interested, here a video of the entire walk (including terrible sound from the wind): youtu.be/PZxhDGSQlUk

Last one from my trip up to Great Staple Tor on Dartmoor last Sunday evening.

This was taken just as I was getting ready to pack up for the evening, I saw the sun hitting the horizon and fired off one more shot with the Western stack of the tor as my focal point.

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This #LowKey rendition of my Staple Remover for the #MacroMondays challenge is meant to highlight the sharpness of the tool.

Another shot from Great Staple Tor but this shot was taken a week before the shot I posted yesterday.

I was up there looking for different compositions and as the sun was setting it cast a lovely red glow over the rocks.

First official shot of 2019 is one from a new year's day trip up to Great Staple Tor on Dartmoor.

I'd originally wanted to head up in the morning but there was thick low cloud all over the moors so I left it until the afternoon when luckily, the cloud cleared a bit and gave some gorgeous side light on the tor. Unfortunately, the sunset I was hoping for never happened but I still think this photo gives off enough drama.

I'm doing a year long feature for Dartmoor Magazine which is due out in 2020, and I've picked this tor as my favourite tor. So, I couldn't think of a better way to kick off the year than with a visit up to Dartmoor to start my project.

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After shooting various pens and pencils I was drawn (see what I did there) to an old box of simple staples.

My MacBook Pro making its usual appearance to create the reflections.

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BNSF 3853 chases the sun as it rounds the corner near Clear Lake, MN. The engineer forgot he has a visor also.

Focus stack (44 images). Shot with two off-camera strobes (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II L trigger). Flash A bare bulb, mounted on overhead boom, bounced off 32 inch white umbrella. Flash B, Camera fight, 45 degrees, 45 degrees above table, modified with MagMod MagSnoot, fully extended. White reflector (8 x 10 inch camera left, perpendicular to subject.

Shot for Macro Mondays - fastener

Subject (ceiling tile staples), 14mm (h) x 10,5 mm (w) x 34 mm (l, front, 48.7 mm rear)

Great Staple Tor

Another shot from a morning at Great Staple Tor on Dartmoor a few weeks ago.

I was hoping for a bit more high cloud in the sky to give off those lovely pink colours, but as the weather report lied to me we ended up with just a few bits hanging around.

I get a lot of people asking me who placed the rocks like this, and without boring everyone with a science lesson, I've found a great fact sheet with the whole process of how they were formed. You can find it here...

www.dartmoor.gov.uk/…/pdf_f…/0008/814481/lab-tors.pdf

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Macro Mondays: STATIONERY...a close up look at staples.

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Looking south towards Underhill Lane and Staple Hill. On the edge of the Blackdown Hills in Somerset.

Inspired by a similar concept... I "borrowed" 5000 staples from work... Plus my present boredom lead to this... Making a scene of Staple Skyscrapers haha. On a side note... That peak dead center of this image is actually my place of employment... That's how close I live to where I work haha.

For Macro Mondays - Stationery.

Speedlight with small rectangular diffuser as background scrim. Speedlight with snoot and Steel Green gel from left. 105 subs processed in Zerene Stacker.

1.625 inches in greatest dimension.

One of the strange rock formations scattered on Dartmoor, Great Staple Tor at sunset.

This is a 67 second exposure using the Lee Big stopper filter. In the great company of Jed Langdon.

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A year round staple in my pantry is cranberry sauce; made with fresh berries (in season soon!), grated ginger, orange juice, cinnamon and half the recommended amount of sugar.

This tangy sauce compliments poultry like none other. :-)

Macro Mondays, subject: embossed

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Having a play with some older images today, this is another one from my trip up to Great Staple Tor on Dartmoor when we had a bit of snow.

This winter has been very disappointing for me so far, I've been hoping for more snow up on Dartmoor so I can get some photos for next winter's edition of Dartmoor Magazine, which I've been asked to be a featured photographer for. So far all we've had this year is high winds, grey skies and rain. I missed the best of the snow as I was down in Cornwall so haven't really had a chance to get out. Fingers crossed Jack Frost will eventually turn up in February and give us a couple of weeks of nice cold winter weather.

Anyway, I'll stop moaning about our climate, Here's another view from the tor with a slightly different composition than the last couple of shots I posted.

Late afternoon on Great Staple Tor, Dartmoor. An old LE I thought worthwhile revisiting in the edit.

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Close-up of a rice plant with the rice grains forming. At the Jatiluwih rice terraces on Bali.

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Epic sunlight illuminates this classic composition of Staple Tor for my first landscape shoot of December 2014. I’m hoping that this is a sign of things to come for the rest of the winter season. Thanks for looking – Mk.

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This was such a fun discovery. I was leaving an open house--beautiful 3 bedroom loft with a 48' long living room at 335 Greenwich Street. (For sale for $4,950,000, which I'm happy to show if anyone is interested . . . ) Turned the corner onto Jay Street and re-discovered Staple Street.

The building on the left is a single family townhouse formerly owned by the fashion designer Zoran Ladicovbic. He bought the skybridge and the apartment on the 3rd floor in the building on the right for his studio. 9 Jay Street is a 6,300 sq.ft., 25' wide townhouse with 11' ceilings and apartment 3 A/B in 67 Hudson on the right is 1,900 sq.ft. Both were on the market for $30 million a couple of years ago. The properties did not sell at the time and I have not followed to see if they were sold privately or if Ladicovbic still owns them.

Another shot from yesterday's trip up the moors. this is Middle Staple Tor, the second largest of the three tors in this spot. With all the snow and grey skies it has a nice winter feel to it, but the weather yesterday was actually quite pleasant. There was no wind (for a change) and the temperature wasn't as cold as I'd thought it would be. I didn't even have my gloves on!! I just wish I'd had a bit longer out there yesterday instead of having to rush home for work.

A gloomy autumn afternoon in the Somerset village of Staple Fitzpaine.

One more view from the evening walk. The light was gorgeous, the sky dramatic, the lens characterful. All the best.