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Our picture of many things is been defined by our focus when we are approaching to it. This is an invitation to expand this awareness. Usually we concentrate on the reflected light, when we look at a flower. When we focus on the not reflected light but instead on the light streaming through the blossom, we are entering a new world. Suddenly different details are coming to the foreground. The effects of such a change of the point of view are much more dramatic, when we leave the field of optics. An unresolvable Problem becomes solvable when we treat it as a challenge and our understanding of qualities and behaviours of others is rising when we first try to recognize the good purpose this person had in mind before we admit to deliver a verdict. These are only two examples of an uncountable amount of opportunities we are gaining but nothing is happening by itself. We need to want it and we need to do it.
Unser Bild von vielen Dingen wird davon bestimmt, mit welchem Fokus wir uns ihnen annähern. Dies ist eine Einladung diese Wahrnehmung zu erweitern. So konzentrieren wir uns beim Anblick von Blumen meist auf das Licht, welches sie Reflektieren. Fokussieren wir und stattdessen einmal auf den Teil des Lichtes, der nicht reflektiert wird sondern durch die Blüte hindurch strömt betreten wir eine neue Welt. Plötzlich treten ganz andere Details in den Vordergrund. Die Auswirkungen solch einer Veränderung der Blickrichtung sind noch weit drastischer, wenn wir den Bereich der Optik verlassen. Ein unlösbares Problem wird plötzlich lösbar, wenn wir es als Herausforderung betrachten und unser Verständnis für Eigenschaften und Verhaltensweisen anderer wächst drastisch an, wenn wir erst einmal versuchen zu erkennen welche guten Absichten diese Person im Sinn hatte, bevor wir uns ein Urteil erlauben. Dies sind nur zwei Beispiele von unzähligen Möglichkeiten die wir dadurch gewinnen, doch passiert nichts davon von allein. Wir müssen es wollen und wir müssen es tun.
This flower appears to hang upside-down but that is its natural position. Backlight from the sun makes it translucent.
When I was a child, I was told by my beloved grandparents that the winged seed pods of English maple trees were translucent faerie wings waiting to be collected by their new owners.
Autumn is now well and truly with us here in Melbourne, and the cooler winds of seasonal change are blowing away the remnants of summer, like it tosses the red, gold and orange leaves that carpet the ground.
Today was a perfect autumnal day in Melbourne: sunny, but not too bright, warm, but not hot, and perfectly still. Therefore I thought I'd go for a walk and take advantage of the sunny conditions and take some photographs.
I have taken several hundred, some of which I will upload over the coming months. However this one of the winged maple seeds which reminded me of by childhood in England particularly resonated with me, so I thought I would upload it without delay.
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver
An improved image from this previously posted one, now ready for printing...b.mikic
Crataegus berries in an ice cube.
About 5,5 cm wide.
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cabbage white butterfly on Verbena in front of a very colourful bokeh of summer flowers ☀️
Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Helios 44-2 58mm F2
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detail of a painted glass small tea light holder. when you light the tea light candle you see all the pretty patterns and colours. For Macro Mondays. This week's theme: translucent. Happy Macro Monday/ HMM
Macro Mondays, theme: Translucent
A translucent glass plate was smeared with a little vaseline and placed in front of a gold watch.
Hasselblad/Zeiss Makro-Planar 135mm-f/5.6 manual lens, set to f/5.6.
7 image focus stack using Helicon Focus.
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This is Grape, a 9 months old male red squirrel, posing in the sun. I like how the sun shines through the ear and how it makes his whiskers glow (Squirrels-2019-5841.jpg)
This is a translucent blue pebble (like in this image) placed on a mirror.
The used magnification is 0.75X
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Macro from the shoulder, neck and cap of an olive oil bottle.
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After watching a Nature show featuring the beautiful hummingbirds of the world I decided to pay tribute to one on the many amazing hummers that I saw in Costa Rica this past April.
While feeding on a passion flower this Green-crowned Brilliant is showing off it's beautiful 'translucent wings'.
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...Said everyone's favourite Borg Seven of Nine after smoking some... No, no, not what you think ;) But this semi-translucent, lavender-coloured fluorite, which consists of many cubic shaped crystals with many #corners, has always reminded me of a Borg cube. Albeit a rather psychedelic, flower power, rock'n'roll-type of Borg cube, because the way the cubic crystals are shaped and arranged also conveys a certain kind of cheerful chaos. And lavender also definitely isn't your typical Borg colour. Which makes this a peace and love hippie Borg cube :)
Explored January 10, 2022
Photographed with the M.Zuiko 30mm F3.5 macro lens, the 60mm's little brother. Unlike the 60mm, which is a "true" macro lens with a 1:1 magnification, the 30mm gives you a magnification of 1,25 (2,5 in the MFT world). The fantastic Laowa 50mm Ultra Macro lens offers even more magnification (Goodbye extension tubes!), and it's still on my list, but Olympus – or rather OM System, as the company is called now – had a lens promotion, so I was able to get this already very affordable lens literally dirt-cheap, so I went for it. It's not a pro lens like the 60mm, it's all plastic, no weather sealing etc., but it supports the in-camera focus stacking function, and together with the 16mm extension tube and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens (which I've both used for this shot) it's only as long as the 60mm without any extensions. And last, but not least, the image quality is excellent, too. Of course it won't replace my trusty 60mm, but it's a great addititon to it with its extra magnification (and the length of this technical description gives away that I still had to justify the purchase for myself, because Santa had already brought me another new lens). The minimum focusing distance is a mere 14 cm (5,51 inches) which means that you can get really close to your photographic subject, and with extension tubes and close-up lens mounted that focusing distance shrinks considerably once again. In fact, for this image I was so close that the Raynox close-up lens actually touched the upper part of the fluorite. Soft light from above prevented shading from the lens (to which it is prone also without extensions due to the super short focusing distance). OK, enough tech talk, more info on the programmes used for post processing is in the tags ;)
P.S. Thank you wolli s for the tip to slightly oil the subject after dusting it to keep it lint-free, it works!
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, have a nice week ahead, and stay safe!
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Snow coming to the Chilterns? A light, wet sprinkling of it this morning.
Isn't that a lovely word -- Translucent.. I use it whenever I can. And doesn't it add a dimension to pictures like this? (But maybe only On Black.)
Please don't miss it Viewed Larger On Black and Full Screen (F11)