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For 'Macro Mondays' theme of 'Brand and Logos'
Been having a bit of a sort out of the jam jars we seem to have collected over the past few years. Some have quite nice shapes and ornamentation so they must be keepers on the basis that I might be able to get some interesting photographs.
But a lot of the jars have this little mark moulded into the base. It's obviously a maker's mark. a logo. I've tried to do an identification but haven't had any success.
Russian Industar 61 L/Z 2.8/50mm lens ................ less than 2 inches
MacroMondays -- theme: evolution
Musical enjoyment used to be only live and local. If you wanted to hear music from a different culture, you probably had to take a trip. Over the years it's gotten easier and easier to not only listen to any music you want, but it's now pretty danged simple to make high-quality recordings and share from anywhere you are in the world to just about anywhere else. Listening is so much easier these days. Musical enjoyment has really evolved.
Hispano HA-1112 M4L Buchon Yellow 10 G-AWHK
Hispano Buchon essentially a Rolls-Royce Merlin-engine Messerschmitt Bf109 these were used by the Spanish Air Force
Photo taken at Old Warden (Shuttleworth) Air show Theme Around The World, Photo Taken 4th June 2023
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Continuing my theme of waterfalls and mountains ........this has the ridge of the Snowdonia range in the background
Keeping with the theme of juvenile snowflakes, this one had just begun to grow its branches before was sent out of the clouds. Even though the branches are tiny, there’s a lot to discover here! view large!
This snowflake also harbours three-fold symmetry, albeit much less obvious than yesterday’s snowflake. The best place to see it is in the central bubbles; notice how every other “trapezoid” has roughly the same pattern? This even-odd symmetry is quite common, you’d be surprised how often you find it when you go looking!
Most of the surface details of this snowflake are on the opposite side of the crystal. They can be seen through the ice (ice is transparent) with a little less detail. I enjoy this look better of certain snowflakes, revealing stronger lines around the outside edges and allowing internal features to become more prominent. While nature creates these beauties, the photographer has a lot of control for how to present them to the world!
Snowflakes are all about lighting and angles. If I can photograph the snowflake on an angle where the light from the ring flash partially reflects back off the surface of the crystal into the lens (like glare), the surface lights up. Multiple surfaces make certain parts of the snowflake brighter, which is most often caused by bubbles in the ice. The brighter central area? It’s just ice like the other parts, but because the bubble creates multiple layers of ice, there are now multiple reflective surfaces and more light coming back to the camera.
This is also true along the branches. A very bright feature in most snowflakes, one or two running lines through the center of the branch reflect a ton of light. If the image is severely under-exposed, these regions reveal solid rainbows of colour. At normal exposures, you can still see the bleeding of colour away from their bright white centers. These bright areas could be caused by ridges above the surface of the ice (in this case, on the opposite side) that can evoke the prism effect. Alternative they could be bubbles in the ice, but something would need to be special about them to be so much brighter than other bubbles.
Photography is the melding of art and physics, and snowflake photography is a great example of that. If you want to know all the photographic (artistic) techniques, as well as all the physics of snowflakes, you need to own a copy of Sky Crystals: skycrystals.ca/book/ - you won’t be disappointed, it’ll make winter much more tolerable!
If you enjoy this series of images, your eyes might light up when you see “The Snowflake” print – consisting of over 400 snowflakes put together over 5 years with 2500 hours of work… all into a single image: skycrystals.ca/poster/ - do me a favour and take a look!
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self-portrait
(July 9, 2014)
I know I've already used this one in the diptych composition, but then I realized that I liked its simplicity and minimalism more and let it exist on its own.
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Weekly Theme Challenge ~ Spring
This view is all about Spring. Beautiful English Bluebells, fragrant gorse, green fields and trees beginning to bear their new leaves...isn't Mother Nature wonderful?
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I usually do not interfere with my photographic subjects, so the Knolling-topic was quite foreign to me. I kind of like the result, however a bit more in the other uploaded version with some more framing, which would not quite fit the MM-regulations anymore.
(photo taken for Macro Mondays)
Tumwater Canyon Bridge - Leavenworth, Washington.
The Great Northern Railroad Built a tunnel through Stevens Pass in Washington State. The Railroad discovered the exhaust from the steams engines caused problems in the tunnels. Because of this they used electric engines to pull the cars through. A dam was created in Tumwater Canyon on the Wenachee River. The water was sent through a pipeline down to a plant that generated electricity for the engines. In 1954 the railroad started using diesel engines and abandoned the pipeline and power plant. This bridge was used for the pipeline to cross the river. It is now been converted into a footbridge that follows a trail of the old pipeline.
The white tablecloth paired with the multicoloured paper plates and cups, the sausage rolls, crisps and cake. This could only be one thing. A child's birthday party but not just any old birthday party. You are viewing an Alice in Wonderland themed birthday extravaganza! A different photo but certainly a wonderful addition and a perfect summer's day scene.
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Still trying to master the paper and especially the clearing part.
Paper: Fomabrom var 311 BO
Original negative: Zeiss Ikonta 520/2 6x9, Fomapan 100 with a light leak left of the rightmost tree