| MACRO photography means filling the frame of a full frame camera sensor. I don't have a CMOS camera, so 'near' macro will have to do. Others say: ˌmakrə(ʊ)fəˈtɒgrəfi/ noun noun: macro-photography 1. photography producing photographs of small items larger than life size. This is a coral necklace and the blue tape shows centimeters divided into millimeters. CLIC ON PIC to see them in the lightbox larger than life size size I never realized my tape measure was so cracked :-) |
| It does what I was hoping for. I'm trying to get the wide converter to work for me. Can't see much difference in result with or without. Took the daylight filter off between the lens and the converter. Setting it for add-ons in M-Rec made no difference, as was confirmed when I started reading up on this. Still, it looks impressive on the camera. Mind you, it makes the camera top-heavy, and I nearly dropped it. Can't be that good for the turning mechanism either. I was surprised to see how fast the camera stored the images in its sensor: I was told it would be very slow. I wonder if it has been professionally restored at some stage, where somebody managed to speed up the storing time. Could be the Fuji card I suppose. |
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| My new barefoot road running shoes arrived by courier today. Found them on friday, on ebay and they got sent off so quickly. My feet are very grateful for the gift :-) |
| Above fresh, below six weeks later. Amazing how long they last. I know they are 'only daisies', as my husband tells me, but I adore Gerberas. I am grateful to the botanist Traugott Gerber for discovering them and then hybridizing the varieties. |
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| I go out for a good walk almost every day now. So many fat pheasants ambling around, enjoying their final days before the guns arrive. Little do they know... Today I had to do some clambering over fallen trees. They were felled ones, waiting to be cut up for firewood. There is never much deadfall in our woods, as they are all carefully managed. It was all poignantly beautiful with cloudscapes I could hardly believe. There are lots of little cyclamen dotted all over the dropped pine needles. They must be hardy to be out now. So dainty in this unforgiving season. |
| Late Summer flowers are a sign that the party is running to its end. It makes me a little sad, but also grateful that last year's stalwarts are still prepared to take their place on the stage. Not being fond of yellow flowers, I chose as much white as I could find. The daisies and hydrangea go together nicely. At least to my eyes. Always nice to find that old friends haven't left. |
| The most ordinary, every-day thing may suddenly catch your eye and delight you. Here, an empty evian bottle, with some blue pebbles in the bottom. Suddenly it struck me how beautiful the waterdrops looked, caught by the ridges in the plastic. If anyone has a find like this, suddenly noticing beauty in something plain, I'd love to hear. |
There are so many toilet soaps on the market these days with overpoweringly sweet smells that I usually buy something called Simple or Pure with no scent at all. Then somebody gave me a bar of Royal Jelly soap which has a faint hint of honey. Wonderful stuff.  Obviously this needed an equally lovely soapdish to put it in. And this is what I found. Apparently more than 120 years old, so I gave it a very good scrub :-). Makes you wonder how many hands have reached for this lid first thing in the morning. I love the old Victorian or Edwardian bathroom china sets. Next week we are going to Shakespeare country for a day and I am hoping to find a complete set with bowl, jug, tooth mug and yes, of course, another soap dish. Two great finds in the past week to display on FRIDAY FINDS day. |
