Bye-bye sunshine - hello colour, LOL! Definitely needed this shot of colour today - where is the sun hiding? This is just another moment of playing in my kitchen yesterday. A rare, "just about sharp enough" image to post, but I love the orange and blue together! I have several other abstracts to post sometime - please bear with me until/IF I ever get a tiny, table-top tripod to use when attempting supermacros, ha, ha. This is the sharpest of them, so really the others are more for the colour : ) Oh, guess I should just add that this is a tiny petal tip with a couple of water droplets. The white tip is almost translucent and sparkly.
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Another attempt at macro using my little Raynox 250. I still have to figure out the best way to take a sharp image, LOL, such as trying again to find somewhere that sells the size of GorillaPod (tripod) that my camera needs. I have a few small, dead Sunflowers in my kitchen and I happened to notice a teeny sparkle from some specks of moisture - barely visible to my eye - in the centre of one. I'm still in awe at the incredible beauty of something so tiny, that one would not normally even notice.
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Just wanted to wish a very Happy Thanksgiving to my kids, all my local friends (including all those wonderful nature-nuts I tend to hang out with, LOL), relatives and friends overseas, and of course all my good Canadian Flickr friends who celebrate this special holiday. A special thought to those of you who are unable to spend the holiday with family or friends - I know it can be a tough time. By the way, I didn't have a pumpkin or a pie to photograph, but wanted something orange (which I associate with Thanksgiving), so here's the tiniest water droplet (could hardly see it!) on a sunflower petal for you. Just another attempt to figure out how to use the Raynox 250 macro lens that I bought quite a while ago, but really all I have produced with it so far are total blurs. This lucky shot was a little better than that, LOL. Of course, I think every day should be Thanksgiving Day - we have so much to be thankful for! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Thought of you, Suzie, needless to say : )
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I bought a small macro lens for my little point-and-shoot a few weeks ago (Raynox 250). I've only tried maybe a dozen shots and this is the only one that has even a tiny speck of anything close to sharp, LOL! I find it interesting to see just how close one can get - in this case, to the insides of a Tulip. I can see there must be a real knack to using it, plus an awful lot of practice. One of these days ...
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As you can see, I sure haven't mastered the definite skill of taking SHARP super macros, LOL! However, I rather liked this abstract photo anyway, with the different shades of yellow and orange, so thought I would still post it. Just rest assured, it's not your eyes (or mine), LOL! I think this was a very small Straw Flower. Here, we all need a dose of vivid, warm colour, on yet another dull, gloomy day : ) Temperature is 9C, so it's not really cold, but I'm someone who needs the sun. Tomorrow, a forecast for a high of 2C, with snow. We can't say that it's too early for snow now, but we can say that it's much earlier than we would like.
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