#MacroMonday
#Rust
#200

Explored 23 March, 2021

Magishroom buddies :) They belong to the rare shroom species "Bolt-headed Rainbow Rustlings", also known as "Sleepless Rustlings". These Rainbow Rustlings are of an unconspicious rusty orange-brown colour during the daytime, and will only reveal their true colourful beauty at night – hence their surname "sleepless". There are different colour varieties, depending on the colour of the cap: There are Midnight Rustlings with a blue cap, Emerald Rustlings, and these two fellows are of the Ruby variety. I've collected them once during a visit to the Naturpark Schöneberg (please see my album), already with a possible MM assignment in mind. The Naturpark Schöneberg is a popular public park, located on a former railway compound, which now is a re-naturated urban paradise and also a paradise for all things rust. Since I visited the park at daytime (as you might have guessed), I was completely unaware of the type of Rustling I'd collected then, but after last night's photo shooting I know that, next to the Ruby variety, I'd also collected some Rustings of the Midnight type. And it was really hard to decide between the two different final Rustling images, but in the end, the Rubies won by an eyelash.

OK, these are rivets or stay bolts. They look like screws or nails, but possess neither a screw's thread nor a nail's tip, and I struggled to find the correct English term (I thought "bolts", which isn't totally wrong, but not quite right, either), because I was also unsure about the correct German term (Bolzen or Niet), but Ferroequinologist Gal and johnsinclair8888 kindly clarified what these "wannabe shrooms" really are - thank you for that :)

The larger rivet's head is 2,9 cm / 1,14 inches in diameter (its smaller buddy's head is 1,4 cm / 0,55 inches in diameter), and both are 3,6 cm / 1,41 inches long (but you can only see that in the Midnight Rustling image). The colour isn't paint, but light shone through my makeshift filters; I'd placed the green bottle on the right, and for the cap I used the transparent red plastic chocolate box lid – I put a small LED torch onto it and held both above the bolts. At first I thought three different colour filters could look nice – red, blue (tealight holder) and green –, and the results did look nice, but with three different colours on the bolts the natural rust colour wasn't visible anymore. So I decided to stick to two different colours. Technically, this is an in-camera focus stacking made of 15 images. The in-camera processed final Jpg images looked pretty good already, so I hadn't to do any pre-processing in DXO this time, but only tweaked the colours (saturation and luminosity) in LR, and enhanced the details (small and medium) in Luminar AI where I'd also slightly boosted the colour contrast.

This image also marks my 200th entry for Macro Mondays. I discovered this randomly when I checked something in my MM album last week and saw that there were 199 images in it. Now there are 200 :)

Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and to the next 200 :)

Tags:   Macro Monday rust bolt bolts shrooms mushrooms low-key colourful textures light shadow pink green orange black colour filters makeshift filters Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young & Crazy Horse Rost Bolzen Pilze bunt farbenfroh Grün Schwarz Farbfilter improvisiert rugină bolț șurub rdza trzpień rouille boulon ferrugem herrumbre bulón ржа́вчина болт focus stacking Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm 1: 2.8 Macro Micro Four Thirds Luminar AI metal Metall Oberflächen rivet rivets Niet rebite nit заклёпка perçin stay bolt Nietnagel

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7DWF, Fridays: Flora

Have a beautiful weekend, dear Flickr friends!

Thank you very much for your comments and faves ;-) They are much aprecciated !!!

Tags:   7DWF Fridays: Flora passion flower Passiflora caerulea purple green rust Berlin Passionsblume Natur-Park Südgelände Schöneberg passiflore pasionaria flor de la pasión passiflora fiore della passione passionsblomma martírio maypop mburucuyá męczennica 時計草 Çarkıfelek çiçeği страстоцве́т Nik Collection M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 60mm 1: 2.8 Macro Olypmus OM-D EM-5 Micro Four Thirds

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Janz weit draußen... / In the Middle of Nowhere

The humorous (and typical of Berlin) term of "jwd", pronounced "jɔtve:ˈde:", stands for "In the Middle of Nowhere" ("Janz weit draußen" - though the correct term would be "ganz" instead of "janz", which is typical Berlin dialect). Whether this S-Bahn (interurban train) station is "jwd", depends on where one lives in Berlin. For me it is quite near, even within walking distance, if I take some time. If one lives in a different area of Berlin and wishes to visit the "Naturpark Schöneberg", a beautiful park located on the site of an old railroad area, this S-Bahn station, "Priesterweg", is where to get off the train. More photos from this park will follow (and you can find some photos of this area earlier in my stream).

I've experimented with vintage style processing beforehand, but this is the first time I really tried to tap the full potential of Analog Efex. I've seen a lot of good work of flickr members experimenting with a vintage style here, for example by Aránzazu Vel, Fire Fighter's Wife or Megareds.

Tags:   S-Bahn Berlin Priesterweg Bahngelände Park Natur Naturpark Schöneberg Eisenbahn interurban train commuter railway system rapid transit railway vintage altes Foto Analog Efex Pro Olympus OM-D EM-5 OM MC Auto-S 50mm Micro Four Thirds railway area nature grün green jardin public réseau express régional el parque tren metropolitano naturaleza natureza comboio suburbano trem parco ferrovia urbana szybka kolej miejska banliyö treni

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Soundtrack: Kate Bush "Cloudbusting" ("The Hounds of Love", 1985): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllRW9wETzw

Lens: Zuiko OM MC Auto-S 50mm F1.4

Tags:   Bokeh Schneckenhaus Baum Traum snail tree dream coquille rêve arbre chiocciola sogno albero snail shell caracol sueño árbol sonho árvore marzenie ślimak ули́тка мечта́ surreal psychedelic Olympus OM-D EM-5

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Ich wünsche Euch allen eine tolle Woche ;-) ! Have a great new week, everyone ;-)

OM Zuiko MC Auto-S 50mm F1.4

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