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This little LED flashing red light was given by a company that no longer exists. I tried the 800 #, there's no one home!
During stressful negotiations, I would press the button on the back and put it in my white shirt pocket above my heart. The shirt dampened and diffused the light slightly and people would, at first, be shocked as it looked like a steady, beating heart! A good way to break the ice and cause a few laughs!
The light is a hexagon that measures 1 3/4".
Nikon 18-55mm @ 45mm with 20mm extension tube.
For Macro Mondays
Theme: SWAG
I'll gladly use a pen some store is giving away. I'll even ask for one if I like the feel of it, much to my wife's embarrassment.
FYI, the length of the visible part of the pen on the left is just under 6 cm.
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By the banks of Godavari, Nashik boat club, Maharashtra.
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The truckstop had all the usual tourist junk for sale: baseball caps and dusty candy. The 'bot at the counter was reading a girlie magazine, and I shuddered when I noticed one of the stories was how to date humans without eating them! I'd had some nasty close encounters myself with our diverse cosmic neighbors. Not that anyone could mistake me for a human, but I'd had to assure the more aggressive guys at bars that I was far from edible.
Thank you Cinda for the mug and Dean for the green tea!
I provided the yellow file folder that filled in my background. :-)
The Macro Mondays theme for this week is "Swag". "Swag" (AKA schwag) has many definitions. The one we are using this week is "items given away for promotional purposes." Fishing lure with A-B logo. A-B is logo for Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation.
Dental schwag for the Macro Mondays challenge, Swag.
These days about the only swag I get is from the dentist. Every visit nets a "swag bag" with tiny dental items. Area shown is about 50mm. Happy Macro Monday!
#Werbegeschenk#…Pfefferminz“Tic Tac“ 3 cm groß.
Für:“Happy Macro Monday“ am 15.05.2023.
Thema:“ SWAG“ (Beute)
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The #MacroMondays #Swag challenge
A 1cm square lapel badge from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, superglued to my rucksack. They fall off, y'know. A nice lady at one of their reserves insisted I took it when I presented my membership card to gain entry one morning.
Upper class Victorian ladies liked birds. Or, more accurately, they liked their plumage and, let's face it, a bird does not last long without it, particularly when they are shot to obtain it. Emily Williamson liked birds too, but she preferred them to be in one piece and flapping a bit. In 1889 she and a number of like-minded other ladies created The Society for the Protection of Birds, specifically to oppose the fashion for the murderous millinery which allowed the hats of the more fashionable ladies in society to be adorned with the gorgeous feathers of great crested grebes, egrets, birds of paradise and the like. After all, the male-only British Ornithologists Union was doing nothing about it. So it was left to the ladies to write to the papers, speak to shopkeepers who stocked feathers, contact those who wore them and to persuade the greatest fashion-setters of the age, The Royal Family, to change their own taste in hats. Progress was made. In 1899, Queen Victoria instructed those of her regiments which wore osprey feathers in their headdress to stop doing so. 10 years after it started, the campaign was clearly gaining traction.
In quite rapid order (1904) the society gained Royal Charter status and in 1921 The Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act was passed. It was a good start, but great crested grebes are as British as robins and sparrows are, so their plumes did not have to be imported. Still work to do then, but this was the first successful campaign by the RSPB. From that humble yet important single issue beginning, the RSPB has evolved into an influential organisation with a membership of over a million. It speaks for our birds and thereby indirectly for all flora and fauna, exerting pressure home and abroad, running over 170 reserves in the UK. Access to reserves is free to members and is a cheap (or is that cheep?) day out for others.
The stylised bird used for its logo is an avocet a bird extinct in the UK before it bred at RSPB Minsmere and which is now widespread enough to be seen with pleasure but not much surprise from train journeys where the tracks pass through the appropriate habitats.
Another success attaches to ospreys, which, having been persecuted to extinction in the UK, unexpectedly returned to breed at Loch Garten in 1954. Egg collectors raided their nest, but undeterred the birds returned the following year. The RSPB mounted a 24/7 guard on the nest, resulting in a successful breeding season. Although still scarce, ospreys, summer migrants to the UK and at the very north of their range, now breed at various places throughout the UK. The organisation also encouraged marsh harriers to breed at and spread from Minsmere. In 1971 that reserve had the UK's only breeding pair. Today there are around 600 pairs at various sites, still a very scarce bird, but improving. The RSPB was also involved in the successful reintroduction of red kites in The Chilterns. I now see them fairly regularly 100 miles away. Avocets and red kites are no longer on the UK conservation red list, but there is no reason for complacency. Of all birds, the house sparrow is regarded as common, yet its numbers have crashed and it was added to the red list on the very day the red kite was taken off it.
Incidentally, Minsmere has a cafe which serves quite superb cakes. It's almost a pity to leave them behind to actually do a bit of birdwatching, but I digress. The photo was taken as shown using 32mm of extension tubes. It's a colour photo of a very monochrome subject.
HMM all.