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Macro Mondays: “Redux 2017 –My Favorite Theme of the Year”
I just recently bought some heart ornaments with different patterns and sizes. It was meant to be used for a photoshoot in February. As you might have already guessed, it was planned for Valentine’s Day. Anyhow, I decided to use one of these small hearts (measures 1.5” width) for this Macro Mondays redux 2017.
February 13 : Heart
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Macro Mondays theme: Fictitious
Alligator Loki in the Void
In his timeline, Loki was either born or turned into an alligator. One day, he reportedly ate a neighbor's cat and was detained by the Time Variance Authority for creating a nexus event which caused a detour from the Sacred Timeline as he was supposed to eat another neighbor's cat. He was then subsequently pruned and sent to the Void, where he met Kid Loki, Classic Loki, and Boastful Loki.
Limited edition hand painted 3D printed alligator Loki variant (3.5 inch long)
HMM
El tema de esta semana (12 de Febrero) es "Rosas "
The theme for this week (on February 12) is "Roses".
Looking close... on Friday!
Flickr Lounge ~ The World Around Us
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Timepieces.
A small collection of my older watches, I seem to have too many to wear!!
Added to: "Weekly Theme Challenge"
For the Smile on Saturday group’s theme today I rummaged quite fruitlessly through my vast and, clearly, useless archive of past captures looking for any flowers I have taken in portrait mode. Flowers there were aplenty. Portrait images? Nope, nada, zilch, zero.
I like to try and be a creative photographer thinking of new ideas and trying them out (very trying as my mother used to say) but, evidently, I dwell in various ruts of my own making. I only take images of flowers in landscape format, then. What a surprise!
So what to do for the group? The options were to rotate or crop I guess or even take a new image.
This is a crop of a much bigger image, taken at RHS Wisley as was yesterday’s Friday Flora one, but a much more ordinary flower, quite possibly a marigold. You may think that it is a carefully contrived close-up, but it started out as a boring-but-it’s-the-way-I tend-to-do-it square-on straight-down image. And it’s handheld in ordinary sunlight too, not some carefully controlled lighting set-up (as if I could!). And finally, it’s taken with a vintage lens, manually focused.
I have this hunch that cropping is a long-lost photographer’s art. There’s an itch that continually tickles me to do a project that involves mucking about with cropping images. Why should we be limited to a 3:2 crop that was a whim of a film company when they invented 35mm? Why should it be oblong for that matter - our eyes don’t see things in oblong? Hmmm…
This was developed in Capture One and processed in Affinity Photo, and tweaked in Nik Color Efex. Finally because one of the sides was less than 2000 pixels I doubled it for those with large screens using Topaz Gigapixel, which seems to do quite a credible job.
Getting the crop right in a macro was a real pain. Getting the right petals in a pleasing composition and then trying to get whole petals… I started out with a 1:3 ratio but ended with something shorter, rotated, and probably flipped too. I’ll post a link to the in-camera image in the first comment so you can see the humble beginnings.
This little lens Zeiss works remarkably well if I focus it right. The softness at the bottom of the image was added in processing using a blur vignette.
I like the way the flower petals seem to be unwrapping themselves from the centre…
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Smile on Saturday!
Over enthusiastic grating, and it fell over. I know, I know, it's a bit cheesy!
'Macro Mondays' theme- Sideways, Upside-Down, or Backwards.
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For Macro Mondays theme: "Details from my neighborhood." I must admit that this theme presented a challenge, since I am surrounded by nothing but millions of acres of forest. But it was fun looking for subject matter. HMM to all of the talented photographers in this group. I am always amazed at your work.
*(This whole image took in an area of about 1 - 1/2" wide by 1" tall. I had to dig a little hole in the ground to set my camera in, to capture this. )
Weekly Theme Challenge ~ Tabletop Photography
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This is a new playground being constructed for the kids in this small rural community.
Weekly Theme Challenge :
Playground
For this weeks theme of Balance I was going to do the cliched workings of an old watch showing the balance spring - but I couldn't find my old watch ! in fact I couldn't find anything much as I've recently moved house ... so I reached for my stress balls ... my Yin Yang stress balls - always there to help out in a crisis and bring balance back !
Eyeball to Eyeball outer edges is approx 2 inches
HMM :)
Dream Theme
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: 4K | Plutonia - Interplanetary Travel (Tunisia 🇹🇳)
"4K" Road Trip in Tunisia - Visiting Tunisia "2019"
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Flickr Lounge ~ Starts with the Letter C
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!Black Swan! Stella Lingerie dress Fatpack
PUMEC Lauren Frost, KI-SA Eyes
Maitreya Lara
Lel EvoX Avalon
Sintiklia Cassidy hair
STUN Alexa 3 (used)
Layers Of Green @ 2021, Foinikaria , Cyprus
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f/4 | 1/200 sec | ISO 100 | 150 mm
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Theme : Landscape Photography
Series : Winter Reborn
Location: Foinikaria, Cyprus
Website: etilavgis.com
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This is my second attempt for the #FlickrFriday theme...drum roll please--Chimera. I have no idea where I'd photograph:
("Chimera)
(in Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve.
"the economic sovereignty you claim to defend is a chimera"
synonyms:
illusion · fantasy · delusion · dream · fancy · figment of the imagination · will-o'-the-wisp · phantom · mirage · ignis fatuus
biology
an organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation.
"the sheeplike goat chimera"
a cartilaginous marine fish with a long tail, an erect spine before the first dorsal fin, and typically a forward projection from the snout."
Some photographers have posted images of chimera figurines, or paintings, etc. I have no such items.
The original image I posted was a rather clumsy attempt at putting Matteo's face on a pelican . I really wasn't happy with it, don't know why I bothered posting it.
I decided to try again, and ended up with this image, putting Matteo's face on a pelican that was a better fit for this.
Don't know if this will make it into the group. I've deleted the earlier attempt, so, we'll see! It's not great, but it's much better than my original posting!
NOTE: This has not been accepted by the group #FlickrFriday because it doesn't comply with the rules. Even though I created it after the theme was announced, the original photo was taken before the theme selection so it isn't qualified.
I was concerned that might be the case. Now I'll have to see if I can get out before Thursday and find a chimera. Because they're in abundance...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks to all for viewing, faving and/or commenting! Much appreciated! L