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Sea glass (mixed collection) — weathered fragments of man-made glass (bottles, tableware, industrial glass)
Confidence: High
Description
Overall scene
A dense pile of multi-colored sea glass fragments
Likely arranged for macro / focus-stacked still life
Background: dark, slightly reflective surface with scratches (possibly acrylic or glass)
A. Sea glass (primary subject)
What it is
Originally broken glass objects (bottles, jars, tableware)
Transformed by long-term wave action + chemical weathering
Sea glass forms when glass fragments are tumbled for decades, smoothing edges and creating a frosted surface
Surface characteristics (clearly visible here)
Frosted / matte finish (light-scattering surface)
Rounded edges — no sharp corners
Micro-pitting / “sugary” texture
Some pieces show:
Internal bubbles
Thickness variations
Slight translucency to opacity
This frosting comes from abrasion plus chemical leaching of glass components in seawater
Shapes
Irregular shards (typical)
Some flat pieces → likely window glass or plate glass
Thick chunks → older bottles or industrial glass
Rounded pebble-like pieces → heavily weathered (older)
Colors (with likely origins)
Common
White / clear → windows, bottles
Green → beer/wine bottles
Brown / amber → beer, medicine bottles
Less common (present here)
Blue → medicine bottles, soda bottles
Aqua / teal → older glassware, insulators
Purple → manganese-treated glass altered by sunlight
Red → tail lights, decorative glass (rare)
Color distribution aligns with known sources of historic glass waste
Notable pieces in this image
Large red shards (foreground right):
Thick, flat → likely tableware or signal glass
Red is relatively uncommon → higher collector value
Bright green elongated piece (top right):
Bottle fragment (modern glass)
Lavender/purple piece (center-left):
Likely originally clear glass altered by UV + manganese
Cobalt/blue rounded piece (center):
Typical of medicine or chemical containers
White/milk glass pieces:
Opaque → tableware or cosmetic containers
Optical qualities
Translucent diffusion of light
Internal glow in thinner pieces
Color saturation increases with backlighting
Age implications
Well-rounded + strongly frosted pieces:
Typically decades old (20–100+ years)
Sharper or glossier pieces:
Younger or less weathered
Composition (image analysis)
High-density arrangement (no negative space)
Strong color contrast (red, green, blue vs neutrals)
Emphasis on:
Texture
Edge quality
Color variety
Focus stacking:
Uniform sharpness across multiple depth planes
Key distinguishing features (real vs artificial)
This appears to be natural sea glass, based on:
Irregular shapes (not uniformly rounded)
Surface pitting variation
Mixed wear levels
Edge inconsistency
Artificial/tumbled glass is typically more uniform and lacks this variation.
I made this photo of red geranium flowers and a translucent yellow calla lily flower in the backyard of our San Francisco home. The geranium was from a friend's front yard and the yellow calla lily sprouted up after disappearing about a year ago. I had purchased the calla lily at a grocery store we patronize. The bulb plant produced only once and then failed to produce again until about a year later when this flower sprung up. What a surprise to see this combination and have the opportunity to photograph them using my Canon Powershot SX50 in the days of Covid-19 restricted movements in our fair city.
This is my first attempt at smoke photography.
To get this shot, I used a technique that I read about on DPS. It took some trial and error but I was worth the effort!
Here is the link to anyone that is interested.
digital-photography-school.com/smoking-allowed-investigat...
Lilly taken with a natural background in natural outdoor surroundings. Not as easy as in a studio or with alot of Photoshop.
Indian Point entry to Flandrau State Park in New Ulm, MN.
Fun looking at what happens when objects fly by the camera.
Mike
Father and son collaboration
Our photographic art is a kinetic motion study, from the results of interacting with my son A.J and his toys.
He was born severely handicapped much like a quadriplegic. On December 17,1998. Our family’s goal has always been to help A.J. use his mind, even though he has minimal use of his body.
A.J. likes to watch lights and movement. One of the few things he can do for himself is to operate a switch that sets in motion lights and various shiny, colorful streamers and toys that swirl above his bed.
One day I took a picture of A.J. with his toys flying out from the big mobile near his bed like swings on a carnival ride. I liked the way the swirling objects and colors looked in the photo.
I wanted to study the motion more and photograph the whirling objects in an artful way, I wanted my son A.J. to be a part of it. After all, he’s the one who inspires me. When A.J. and I work together on our motion artwork, A.J. starts his streamers and objects twirling, I take the photographs.
Activating a tiny switch might not seem like much to some, but it’s all A.J. can do. He controls the direction the mobile will spin, as well as when it starts and stops. The shutter speeds are long, and sometimes, I move the camera and other times I hold it still.
I begin our creation with a Nikon digital camera. Then I use my computer with Photoshop to alter the images into what I feel might be an artistic way. Working with Photoshop, I find the best parts from several images and combine them into the final composite photograph. I consider the finished work to be fine art. The computer is just the vehicle that helps my expressions grow.
I take the photographs and A.J. adds the magic. It’s something this father and son do together. After I’ve taken a few shots, I show him the photos in the back of the camera. When the images are completed, I show him from a laptop. He just looks. He can’t tell me whether or not he likes the images, but he’s always ready to work with me again.
It offers me my only glance into A.J.’s secret world. We’ve built a large collection of images and I hope the motion and color move you as much as they do me.
A.J. inspires me to work harder to understand my life in the areas of art, photography, people, spirituality, and so much more. He truly sets my mind in motion and helps me find the beauty in everyday things.
AJ Patnode - A Journey of Hope (documentary):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7m8QFcmRM
This shows how I do the Camera work:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmjVVGraUVw
AJ'S blog:
Abstract set:
www.flickr.com/photos/patnode-rainbowman/sets/72157602269...
found this from digging through my summer pics...with the awful drab cold weather, it was a pleasant discovery!
wing translucent, beak reflective
Ruby Throated Hummingbird (f)
Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifolia
cropped a lot version
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Whan I have a bit of time I play around with Photomatix to see how much juice I can get out of some specific images. Here I put together 5 different exposures on Lightroom's virtual copies and then cropped the photo to a more suitalble frame. There's a huge deal of noise that I couldn't get rid of in the lower righty side of the image, the sea has gone a bit crazy there... Unfortunately I only count on Lightroom's noise reduction and cannot make any local adjustment, had I push too much the sliders the rest of the image would have gone extra soft.
Two SB600 behind a translucent umbrella triggered with Elinchrome Skyport.