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This month the themes for Melbourne Flickr Friends were "Path" or "Leading Lines". I am not sure which one I had in mind when I shot this image as it covers both options. Taken on a frosty morning near by.
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!
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!
For Looking close on Friday!
Theme: Matchsticks.
Des friction lights de John Walker aux lucifers de Samuel Jones
Le pharmacien John Walker est celui qui a inventé, en 1827, la première allumette qui s’allume par friction, comme on la connaît aujourd’hui. S’inspirant des travaux d’un physicien et chimiste irlandais, Robert Boyle, il imagine un mélange qui, par friction sur une surface rugueuse, peut s’enflammer. En bon scientifique qu’il était, et ne voulant pas faire connaître le procédé de sa découverte, il refuse de la breveter, se contentant de commercialiser lui-même son produit, et de vaquer à ses occupations de pharmacien, botaniste et minéralogiste. Ce procédé de fabrication des allumettes finit par être breveté sous le nom de lucifers par un certain Samuel Jones. Les lucifers présentaient néanmoins de nombreux problèmes : flamme instable et violente, odeur désagréable. On dit que malgré tous ces désagréments, le nombre de fumeurs augmenta en raison de cette invention. Ils pouvaient enfin déambuler dans la nature, avec leurs cigarettes, cigares et pipes, en toute indépendance.
From John Walker's Friction Lights to Samuel Jones' Lucifers
In 1827, the pharmacist John Walker invented the first friction-lighting match, as we know it today. Inspired by the work of an Irish physicist and chemist, Robert Boyle, he imagined a mixture that could ignite by friction on a rough surface. As a good scientist, and not wanting to make the process of his discovery known, he refused to patent it, contenting himself with marketing his product himself, and going about his business as a pharmacist, botanist and mineralogist. This process for manufacturing matches ended up being patented under the name of Lucifers by a certain Samuel Jones. However, Lucifers presented many problems: unstable and violent flame, unpleasant odor. It is said that despite all these inconveniences, the number of smokers increased because of this invention. They could finally wander around in nature, with their cigarettes, cigars and pipes, in complete independence.
Un grand merci pour vos favoris, commentaires et encouragements toujours très appréciés.
Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.
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.
This is a corner of my refrigerator magnet from Great Smoky Mountains NP. I have them from most parks we have visited. HMM!
Sobran las palabras ♥
La voz de Jose James habla por mí:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSWClEkOYFo
Feliz viernes de música y fotografías!!! :)
This is for Macro Monday's "Crack" theme. I'm finding these challenging, but really good to stretch the imagination & photography skills.
So this is a crack in one of the bricks on our house. Rotated horizontally for easier viewing. A couple of things this made me think about:
My wife is going to kill me because the first time I post a photo of the bricks that make our house, I post a cracked one. With a weed growing out of it. 😬
Isn't it cool the way nature takes over manmade items eventually, our house being 25 years old (this is probably more a testament to what a lazy handyman I am looking after the place). I love those old temples in Cambodia where the trees have consumed the temples. They look amazing! 😮 Must dig out some old pics of that.
Rotating the pic to horizontal made me wonder what if we lived in a horizontal world, you know if there wasn't gravity & stuff, what would humans look like? Would we be horizontal instead of standing/sitting vertically as well? Would we have 2 legs& 2 arms on the same side of the body? Would we watch TV sideways? We would look at contact's photos on Flickr laying down, in which case this photo would be the right way up. Or would it. Too hard to think about for this tired brain 🤔😵💫
Anyway I digress sorry, have a fantastic week ahead ✌😀
Year 2020 Limited Edition Christmas theme built by Jon Ree & Resa in Bellisseria Fairgrounds
Windlight Fairy Dark Blue (Paulina)
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Flickr Lounge weekly theme - colourful minimalism
1/100x the 2017 edition
52 in 2017 challenge #2 red
2/365
cute little Christmas decoration. For Macro Mondays. This week's theme: 'holiday lights'. Happy Macro Mondays/ HMM
Sticking to my recent grebe theme, he's a diminutive Pied-billed Grebe - a little bird with a big, big voice - in a roadside cattail marsh. I was able to slip down the embankment when it dived, and be sitting still at the water's edge when it resurfaced.
Alas, this little wetland, complete with stands of cattails and at least one resident muskrat, has succumbed to our 6-year drought. Currently there is no water here, and no grebes, muskrats, blackbirds, or black terns, all of which I happily photographed during times of more moisture.
Moisture. The farmers and ranchers here don't ask for rain; they hope for "moisture". As if a damp sponge will do just fine, thank you very much. What we really need is a good snow pack one of these winters. Instead, all our snow disappeared at the end of January, so water levels are likely to be lower than ever this summer. So it goes.
Regardless, I continue to find birds to photograph. Lots of birds. Not as many as in past years, but I'm able to compensate by knowing where to look. Stay tuned. Birds, birds, and more birds to come.
Photographed in Rosefield, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
……Went for the Circus side of the theme in this weeks Smile on Saturday, the chair is a creation by the Daughter in Law from a few Christmases ago - made from a top off a bottle of Bubbly, balancing it was a challenge but not insurmountable! The Elephant came from Jill’s moms but needed a pair of Tusks - unlikely to be Ivory poachers, however a few minutes with a Crochet needle (also Jill’s moms) I fashioned a new pair for him! The Ball is a remnant from when our Grandson was little. And finally, the Big Top backdrop is the curtain we hang over the front door to keep the direct sun off it. Indeed it was natural sunlight here, ‘Click’ & hey presto - Smile On Saturday, well after some minor edits just in Lightroom only. Alan:-) HSoS……
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my offering for this month's theme in the 12:12 Project -- see all of the artists' wonderful work here: www.facebook.com/The1212Project
For group theme 52 Weeks of 2016.
Theme: Astrophotography /night photography - technique.
I was out in the cold trying to get some good stars and then the clouds came. later the moon peeped out between the clouds, so I've combined two night shots here.
361/366: 2016
Macro Monday - Redux...all in a row
I saw these Christmas macarons, on Christmas Eve, they were reduced so I bought them for a photo prop. Macro Monday is visiting past themes so I used the macarons for 'all in a row" I really struggled to get a shot I am happy with and am not overly pleased with this but have spent enough time faffing and these macarons aren't going to eat themselves! ;) HMM
A few brightly colored wooden snack bowls lit by the late afternoon sun coming in through my window.
The Flickr Lounge - Weekly Theme - Wood
Baby Brian is being a highly uncooperative specimen!
For Macro Mondays theme 'Gift'. The gift here is not the snail, but my precious microscope. It was given to me by my grandparents when I was a young child - they had had a veterinary student lodger renting a small flat above their garage who suddenly vacated the flat when the rent was due, leaving behind a number of possessions that presumably were too difficult to carry easily. One of things left behind was this microscope, clearly a quality and valuable instrument so it is curious that it would be left behind. Recognising my interest in the natural sciences, my grandparents gave me his microscope, that came with slides and eyepieces - it was a excellent source of discovery that lasted all through my school days until I went off to university. I still have the microscope, but it doesn't get taken out of its case very often any more - although I did have fun photographing it for a photography course, see the first comment box. The 4X is the magnification power of one of the objective lenses, it is 1.8cm in diameter.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.
Sunbeams break through cloudy skies over Bahía de Banderas, a bay on the Pacific Ocean Coast near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/10.0, 32mm, 1/1250s
Kiddie art is childs' play...
Uploaded for the weekly theme "It's a Colourful World" in The Flickr Lounge .
Photographed at Randfontein in South Africa.
Using the Helios 44-2 2/58 lens.
I shoot full manual in Raw and edit in GIMP.
Critique is welcomed.
Thank you all very much for your visits, favs and comments.
For the group Macro Mondays, the theme this week was "Wire". As I happen to have different types of wire around, left over from when I made so many props for a local community theater, I dug into my "wire kit" and found these three different coils of wire, one brass, one steel, and one copper. They made a pretty contrast to each other.
So, here's wire. HMM!
Veronica longifolia , Long-leaved Speedwell
Please view large for all the lovely detail!
This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds
Slender, upright spires of white, pink and blue tubular flowers appear in summer above cream-edged, mid-green leaves.
This elegant speedwell shows a good resistance to mildew and will add vertical interest throughout a sunny border on well-drained soil.
If cut back after the flowers have faded, it may produce a second flush in late summer or early autumn.
With love to you and thank you for ALL your faves and comments, M, (* _ *)
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Veronica, "Long-leaved Speedwell", purple, pink, flowers, spike, bloom, bud, colour, lighting, studio, black-background, design, square, Nikon-D7000, "Magda indigo"