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Well I've chosen this one for Macro Mondays theme "Black and white" was hard to choose! I like the grain in the aluminium and the fact it runs a different direction to the ring pull.
If you didn't know metal has a grain which affects it when it is being formed, one way bends easier than the other which makes a difference of about 1.5° for the same amount of pressure. Boring I know :)
Happy macro Monday all :)
For the last Macro Mondays working the themes each day with the renaissance, i knew the face Pareidolia would have to come from wood, in renaissance time the woodworkers finding a face in the wood grain the first thing to determine was was it good or evil. if evil the wood was burnt if good then the craft went on to make something knowing the guarding was with them.
Chose a theme for this day’s shoot and it was blue, so set off for Stampede Reservoir to maybe find some great blue sky shots, as the dam was crossed this view seemed to say, this is it, the theme shot of the day…. With the water so low and the contrast of the land and the blue of the sky and water I stopped and took some shots of the area showing the rocky foreground but none of those grasped the theme so took this one with nothing in the foreground but the water and liked it best. As a rule in landscape photography there should be something in the foreground but sometimes rules just do not work and need to be broken. Go for it.
Macro Monday's "Queen" theme
Queen Victoria was the Great great grandmother to Queen Elizabeth11, The coin is dated 1875
HMM
Macro Mondays theme: Keychain (image is cropped to fit within the 3" limit)
My daughter picked up this miniature Eiffel Tower keychain while on her travels around Europe in the Fall of 2022. She had spent a semester studying abroad and stayed in Cologne, Germany. She admits that Paris was her most favourite place to visit among all of the places she travelled to.
Today I thought I'd get one more photo in before I have to take my Christmas tree down. Everything is finally put away now till next year.
Thanks for your visit! I hope you have a great day! HMM!
I dropped a new album today, my first since 2002!
This might be out of some people’s wheelhouse.. but if you like soundscapes, check it oot!
For Macro Mondays Theme 'opposites'
Write it, or rub it out, with opposite ends of your pencil.
And just for fun, an opposite pronunciation.
HMM.
Weekly Theme Challenge ~ Up Close
Stay safe and well everyone.
Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. Any comments or Faves are very much appreciated
Tasche
Den originalen Segeltaschen aus Kiel
Hüpferli-Segel und unsere Taschen gibt es seit 1977.
Damals wie Heute werden unsere Taschen bei uns per Handarbeit gefertigt, die einzigen Maschinen die wir nutzen sind unsere Nähmaschinen.
My attempt at the "Smile on Saturday" theme "Begins with G"
Shot with an Emil Busch "Mod. Kino 3 5/8 inch F 2" (projection) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
This is a corner of my refrigerator magnet from Great Smoky Mountains NP. I have them from most parks we have visited. HMM!
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A very unusual (for me) MM contribution in quite a few ways, because it is a photo that I have neither taken at home nor specifically for the "dutch angle" theme – this fluffy feather was a chance discovery at last Wednesday's (fabuloutastic, I should add) photowalk at the Olympic stadium; I didn't even think about the theme when I found this pretty feather in a corner of a step of one of the many, many staircases there. And of course this isn't the photo from that walk that I'd planned to upload first, either ;-). But often things don't turn out as expected (something which happens a lot lately when it comes to MMs), and that's not always a bad thing.
This small feather, about 6 cm / 2,3 inches long, came to my rescue when my original idea didn't work out – which every way I tried to make it work (it was a small spoke reflector which I'd once found in the street; the idea was to capture its distorted reflection which made it look like a flowing piece of honeycomb, something that came to my mind because of the reflector's honeycombed structure; well, to make it short, I never managed to get the distorted reflection sharp enough so it would be pleasant to look at; maybe I can still make it work later... I also tried to magnify those honecomb patterns inside of the reflector by using the extension tubes and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens – but, no, it wasn't meant to work).
But back to my "Olympic feather": Most conveniently, I had already taken it at a dutch angle (Mr Freud, can you hear me?). It is a single handheld picture taken with the Ricoh (the GRIII rocks!) which I've sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI, and then further processed it in Nik's HDR Efex Pro – I started with the "En Vogue" preset "Cool Deep" which I'd then still tweaked a little here or there. And because the staircase I'd found this feather on had been in a shadowy corner of the stadium (and the feather in an even more shadowy corner of the step), the DNG outcome was rather dull; to add some much needed light I went into ON1 where I added a "Sunflare" texture filter to the upper left corner of the image; back in LR I added the preset "Soft Fog" and tweaked the luminosity and saturation sliders for a dreamy look.
HMM, Everyone, stay safe and healthy!
Nicht das, was ich eigentlich für's Thema machen wollte, aber das passiert mir in letzter Zeit häufiger ;-) Meine ursprüngliche Idee war es, die verzerrte Spiegelung eines kleinen Speichenreflektors (ein Straßenfund) auf einer Spiegelfliese zu fotografieren; die Verzerrung ließ den Reflektor wie ein fließendes Stück Honigwabe aussehen, was auch schön mit der wabenartigen Struktur des Reflektors korrespondierte – nur wollte es mir partout nicht gelingen, der Verzerrung zumindest ein wenig Schärfe abzuringen. Ich habe dann versucht, die Wabenstruktur im Innern des Reflektors mithilfe der Zwischenringe und der Raynox-DCR-250-Makrolinse zu vergrößern, aber auch hier hatten die Endergebnisse zu wenig Schärfe.
Irgendwann, es war schon ziemlich später Abend (wie immer), gab ich frustriert auf. Zum Glück fiel mir dann die flauschige Feder ein, die ich letzte Woche zufällig auf einer der unzähligen Stufen des Olympiastadions entdeckt und aus der Hand mit der GRIII fotografiert hatte. Die Größe (gut 6 cm) passte, den Winkel hatte ich bei der Aufnahme (unbewusst? Freud lässt grüßen, denn vor Ort hatte ich überhaupt nicht an das Dutch-Angle-Thema gedacht) auch schon passend schräg gewählt... Warum also nicht, auch wenn diese Feder nicht das Foto ist, das ich als Erstes vom (außerordentlich schönen) Fotowalk dort hochladen wollte. Ich habe das Bild dann in Topaz Sharpen AI nachgeschärft (Modus "Stabilize") und in HDR Efex ausgehend von der Voreinstellung "En Vogue: Cool Deep" bearbeitet. Was dann noch fehlte, war etwas mehr Licht bzw. Leuchten, denn die Feder hatte auf einer der Treppen auf der Schattenseite des Olympiastadions gelegen und das DNG war recht flau und trüb. Also habe ich in ON1 noch eine "Sunflare"-Textur drübergelegt und in LR die Weißtöne aufgehellt und als Abschluss noch die Voreinstellung "Weicher Nebel" (mit zusätzlichen Veränderungen meinerseits bei der Struktur, Luminanz und Sättigung) für ein weicheres, verträumtes Aussehen verwendet.
Manchmal kommt es eben anders, als man denkt, aber das muss ja nichts Schlechtes sein ;-) Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, passt weiterhin gut auf Euch auf!
Year 2020 Limited Edition Christmas theme built by Jon Ree & Resa in Bellisseria Fairgrounds
Windlight Fairy Dark Blue (Paulina)
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This theme this week is all about Bees, I love bees and this fuzzy bumble bee sprinkled in pollen is coming in to land on this passion flower.