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It has become the tradition that I make the stuffing and then stuff the bird. My go to stuffing consists of store-bought breadcrumbs which I mix with sausage, cranberries, onion, celery and my secret spices. Hey, I can't just give away my traditional recipe.
The Multiflora Rose bush beside the garage was loaded with blossoms recently, providing good subject material for testing a Nikon Coolpix P7000 someone loaned me. This bee sat on this blossom for nearly a minute busily transferring pollen from its head to the forelegs, then to the mid legs, and then to the hind legs... and into the pollen baskets. The process happens very quickly and is interesting to watch, if you're lucky enough to have a bee ignore you, remaining absorbed in its work. Taken with a Nikon Coolpix P7000, shooting through a large "common Objective" from an American Optical "Cycloptic" stereo-microscope mounted on a special adapter, with pop-up flash lighting shot through a home-made diffuser. This is the camera set-up used for this image:
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The "Macro" mode of the camera at its closest focus produces a "field width" of 1.5 inches at a lens-to-subject distance of 3/4 inch. You have to use the wide angle end of the zoom range to use the macro setting. The extremely short working distance is difficult to work with, especially with living subjects. It's so short that getting light onto the subject can be a problem. Using the AO objective, in the macro mode you can use the maximum telephoto end of the zoom range, creating a generous 4 inch space between lens and subject. The magnification gets quite a boost too, with the field width dropping to 13/16 inch. Despite the P7000 having image stabilization, I like to use a shutter speed of 1/1000 second. This camera only stops down to f/8, which gives very shallow depth of field at higher magnifications.
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Turnips, carrots, rutabaga, celery root, pearl onions, and Brussels sprouts glazed in duck fat. Toasted bread, pecans and dried cranberries.
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- The Azure Damselfly grows to around just 3.3cm and is very common around most waterbodies or in surrounding grassland and woodland in the UK, although it can be found from Scandinavia to North Africa. They will return to their perch to eat their prey, which in this case was an unlucky fly. Stourhead, Warminster.
While out and about exploring Thanksgiving morning, I heard a couple of Great Horned Owls and was able to locate this one still stuffing his mouth.
Incredibly I have managed to stuff all these objects into this tiny box. I have numbered them all and a key will be uploaded soon.
My favorite part of Thanksgiving is the stuffing but I forgot to have some this year. I spent a big part of the day in the kitchen, when you cook you pick and by the time we sat down I wasn't really hungry. Since Thursday I think I've had one proper meal, this is an easy time of year to put on a couple pounds. I'm trying my best to keep it under control and stay in those size 31 jeans I worked so hard to get in!
Playing with some tones in Lightroom, how do you like this one?