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Inspired by #curves and #MacroMondays, a circle of wires.
"Toroidal inductors and transformers are inductors and transformers which use magnetic cores with a toroidal (ring or donut) shape. They are passive electronic components, consisting of a circular ring or donut shaped magnetic core of ferromagnetic material such as laminated iron, iron powder, or ferrite, around which wire is wound."
~Wikipedia
Aperture f/2 at 60mm, 4cm / 1.57 inches across. In full disclosure, I barely understand the description above, but I do like how these things look.
For Macro Monday's Summer Olympic Sports theme, I went with my favorite sport: Fencing, commonly referred to as physical chess.
After seeing an incredible photo from the 1988 Olympics, I decided I needed to learn how to do it. So I picked it up at Ohio State,and eventually made it onto the sabre team. Good times!
I keep this in the silverware drawer to use almost daily on jars or lids or other such frustrating things. I think this makes me much more gentle than tossing something across the room, don't you?
Back after I ask my significant other what the proper name of this is, if you're interested.
Ah, a pair of duck-billed pliers with which to grip, bend, and twist small things. Small enough for my smallish hand.
This large book on using spices in cooking was handed down to my spouse. The book has 597 pages on cooking with spices, with another 24 pages of indexed items.
I think this represents a talent for and curiosity of cooking and baking.
7DWF: Miércoles/Wednesdays: Macro or close-up
(Should have expected the puns ;)
For Macro Monday's "Sharp" theme.
These are used by wood turners to produce wooden bowls and other objects. They are nominally 5/8", 1/2" and 3/8" in diameter.
An abstract close-up shot of an old steel kitchen grater. A black under-lay was used with a top-lit LED on low power in a dark room.
Developed and color-graded with Darktable 3.6.0.
"Learning never exhausts the mind"
Quote attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
Also #55/125 Learning : 125 pictures in 2025
……still plenty of photographic life left in it yet, it’s bed mates might be more active but not nearly so appealing I thought! Happy Thursday folks, Alan:-)
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Macro Mondays. October 26, 2015 ~ Tools, Utensils.
Happy Macro Monday, my friends!
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #8" "When Things Go Wrong" "Contrast Thursday" Three different well-used pencil erasers.
If writing or drawing is analog, it may be deleted with pencil erasers.
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Here's a bonus Murder Shack for Halloween!
Murder Shack No. 64
Along the Lincoln Highway
Sterling, Illinois 41.805515, -89.767463
August 30, 2024
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a well used wooden handle of the a garden tool
it used to be painted orange but the colour is well worn from the handle.
Rochelle, Illinois 41.886641, -89.073202
June 19, 2023
The owner of this property has several old cars in his yard. You can see them (as I post them) here www.flickr.com/photos/tags/20230619oldcarsinrochelle
Right now, I have posted two - there will be at least 2 more.
We had a chance to chat with the owner while we were taking pictures. He said he was planning on tearing this house down. We suggested he have the local fire department burn it down. They do that in these parts as a training exercise.
They spend several days setting up drills, burning parts of the building, etc. Then when they've used the place up, they burn it down for you. Saves the wrecking costs, and you make good friends with the firefighters!
That's always handy when you have to call them for help when you've "fallen and you can't get up." For those of you from outside the US or if you're too young to get this reference, here ya go. youtu.be/myfGdhZtKa4
BTW, the FD WILL come out and help if this happens. We had to call them once for just this situation.
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Taken for the Macro Mondays theme 'Games or Games Pieces'
From an old tin of Woodbine* Dominoes used for many years in a pub. It's such a shame that dominoes and other traditional games are rarely played in pubs these days. In fact many of the old fashioned English pubs have now been converted to restaurants.
*Woodbine was a brand of cigarettes
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007/366
10 seconds, time delayed, exposure,
Monopod,
Hot Wheels, Mattel Inc 1976, Hong Kong,
1931 Duesenberg, known as a Doozie.
Well used model.
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
The Duesenberg Model J is a luxury automobile made by Duesenberg. Intended to compete with the most luxurious and powerful cars in the world, it was introduced in 1928, the year before the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression. The Model J, available with a supercharger after 1932, was sold until Duesenberg Motors Company went bankrupt in 1937.
Production; 1928–1937 481 Total (445 Model J, 36 Model SJ)
DeKalb County Barn Tour
Theis Farm Market
Maple Park, Illinois 41.966431, -88.600350
August 14, 2024
Here's the rest of the series (as I post the pictures)
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I caught this just in time. Less than a week later, the house had been knocked down.
[update] Here's some backstory. I live about five minutes from this place. And pass it almost every day. However, the house had always been surrounded by trees and brush. And, since the farm was active, I figured the house was occupied. My personal rule regarding murder shacks is that they are unoccupied. I don't always obey that rule, but it is an aspiration.
They're doing a big road construction project nearby. They've been clearing the farm land. Then, suddenly, when I passed on this particular day, the house was visible! And it was clearly unoccupied. And the sky was perfect. So I quickly drove home, told Kate I had to shoot a murder shack, grabbed my camera, and left again.
The house is now gone, along with a really shabby barn, and a shed. The only thing still standing is the silo. I'm curious to see what happens to it.
[update 2] - It's gone.
Elgin, Illinois 41.995577,-88.340290
September 22, 2024
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For the group Macro Monday this week, the theme is "Fastener".
So I chose this old fashioned window latch which fastens the top window to the bottom window, locking the windows closed. It is about 1 1/2 to 2 inches across.
This is the only old fashioned window fastener left in the house... made in the beautifully decorative manner of the 1800s. All the rest of the windows have had the locks replaced.
Taking this photo was incredibly involved!
First, It is above my head, so I had to stand on a ladder.
Second, I couldn't use my flash because it reflected in the window glass. So I needed a different light. I have several battery operated lights just for this purpose, so I sat one on the windowsill shining on the latch.
This not only was too glaring and diminished the details of the ironwork, but once I had the photo on my computer, the light revealed all sorts of dirt I hadn't known was there. An entire miniature dust bunny was tucked back in there!
So, third, I had to scrub the area clean! Unfortunately, this somehow deposited hundreds of little green threads all over the latch, which I didn't see until the next set of photos were on my computer. So I had to clean it again. And then take test photos to blow up on my computer to see if it was really clean this time.
So, fourth, I recruited my husband to hold the light for me, to give me a better light angle but that got old fast, so I finally duck taped the little battery operated light to the window glass.
Fifth, I realized I needed to do a focus stack to get the whole thing in focus. That meant a tripod. But I don't have a tripod that tall. So I spent a lot of time trying to raise my tripod up upon something. When I finally managed it, I realized that now I couldn't get the ladder close enough to use the camera. So I had to take apart everything I had built, and use my tripod as a monopod, balanced on top of a plastic storage container. Such classy studio equipment!
Sixth, up on the ladder, leaning over awkwardly, trying to hold the tripod/monopod in position to take three or four different focus shots without moving in between, I got a good sized crick in my neck.
And people think photography is easy! It isn't, but it is fun!
This may have been my great-grandmother's spoon. It is well worn; the initials are hard to read, but there is a "T" for Taylor.
Old Things - Our Daily Challenge
Food related utensils
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A German military vehicle which was produced on license by Bombardier in Canada between 1984 and 1988. This is probably one of 2,500 produced for the Canadian military.
A bit short on time and space this week, I saw this hand tool on the work table, so I shot it under the task light there using my iPhone just a couple hours ago. I've had the pleasure of a career and a lot of personal passions that allow me (encourage me) to use a myriad of hand tools every day. I had two dozen cool tools in mind since reading the theme, but it came down to not enough time to create the shots I was imagining. Oh, well. Hope you like this one. You'll notice it has a wooden HANDle.
Macro Mondays – theme: hand tool
Day 136 of 365 - Firewire
A quick macro shot for today. This is a firewire cable which I had laying around and thought I would try to use my extension tubes today. The shot, though processed for sharpness, background and a few other minor changes was not cropped at all.
Chicago (and Illinois) have three big problems - political corruption, monsters, and zombies. The people won't do anything about the political corruption, but this company is making a stand when it comes to monsters and zombies.
I mean, who wouldn't want to hunt the dark forces with a monster truck and unlimited ammunition. You can learn how to join the fight at monsterpurge.com/
Dang, maybe I should write advertising copy.
Kane County Fairground
St. Charles, Illinois 41.906192, -88.344840
July 16, 2023
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Poking around an old steam locomotive in Inchicore Works, Dublin, I cam across this old oil can that must be close to 100 years old sitting amongst the polished brass and boiler works
this is my extremely well used 1977 Fender Telecaster.
I was 14 years old when I first started learning to play, and my parents couldn't afford to pay for lessons, so with some saved up cash I bought an instruction book and learned the basic chords.
Always wanting to play lead guitar, I used to play vinyl records on the record player, and learn to play what the guitarists were playing, note for note, by listening and copying.
My four main influeces were BB King, Chuck Berry, Wilko Johnson and Dave Hill. The latter two I have been privileged enough to meet in person and say thank you for the inspiration that they gave me.
BB King died yesterday, and even though I saw him perform in person, I never got the chance to thank him for his great influence on my playing.
I may yet meet Chuck Berry, who knows??
But if only I'd had the chance to tell BB what a hero he's been to me . . . . . .
The king is dead, long live the king.