MACRO MONDAYS -- Little Flowers in the Morning Light After an All Night Rain
posted by micki at 7/24/2006 09:36:00 AM
Monday, July 24, 2006
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- Name: micki
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No digital photography here folks. Only film, all the time. No post processing. I shoot it, I have it developed, I scan the print, I post it. It is hoped that you would respect my ownership of the images posted, despite the ease with which you could copy them. If you would like a true photographic print of any of my images, please contact me at goodiesbaker@yahoo.com and I will be happy to provide you with one. Weapons of Choice: * Minolta 7000 * Minolta 9000 *Minolta Dynax 9 * Konica Minolta 70 *Minolta x-700 * Minolta AL-F Rangefinder *1958 Minolta Autocord *Holga *holgamod Holga *PIX Panorama Toy Camera *Polaroid One Step Close Up Lenses: Too many too list, just read the stats for each shot I post Scanner: Epson 4990 Perfection Photo Favorite Films: * Kodak Tri-X * Fuji Superia * Ilford HP5+ -- Goal: To make the best exposure possible, on film. A Theme a Day *Sunday – Take A Guess *Macro Mondays *A Glimpse of My Town Tuesdays *Wednesday's Colors *Thursday's Critter *Unique Film and/or Camera Fridays *Saturday – Anything goes
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OK, yesterday’s post was of a little spider (I think spider) carrying its egg sac (??) around. I noticed it while doing my laps and got the camera. She had been moving around on the upper side of the leaves until I got ready to shoot. Every time she’d turn over to walk on the underside of the leaf, I’d have to flip her back up or put her on the leaf below. She was wobbling and rocking and moving along at a good clip. One time when I was repositioning her, some of the fluff fell off that sac. Out came two little legs from under the load to quickly scoop it back up onto the pile. I only got the one shot before she was gone.
Been up since two this morning, so I’m running on fumes. It’s gonna be quite a day. Don’t want to talk about last night, just need to make it though the day. If I can get it all done, I might get a little shooting in tonight.
Last week of schooling and then the girls have four weeks off! Four weeks of no grading, no lesson plans, no Mom saying, “Do your school work. Get your work done.” Woo Hoo!! I get to be just “mom.” Yeah!!!
Here’s a couple of shots from two or three Sunday’s ago. It was the morning I was out shooting the little flowers and didn’t realize until later the embarrassing position I had been in while doing so. Used all three extension tubes to get in this close. You can spray flowers all you want with a bottle of water, but nothing beats the patterns of water droplets that form naturally from a night of heavy rain.
Flower 1
Camera - Konica Minolta 70
Film - Kodak Gold ISO 100
Shutter Speed - 1/10
Aperture Setting - f-16 Aperture Mode
Lens - Sigma 105mm macro/portrait lens
13mm, 21mm, and 31mm extension tubes
Scanning Method - My scan from my cheap little hp officejet 5510v all-in-one copy/scanner/faxer/printer
Flower 2
Camera - Konica Minolta 70
Film - Kodak Gold ISO 100
Shutter Speed - 1/20
Aperture Setting - f-16 Aperture Mode
Lens - Sigma 105mm macro/portrait lens
13mm, 21mm, and 31mm extension tubes
Scanning Method - My scan from my cheap little hp officejet 5510v all-in-one copy/scanner/faxer/printer
Things I’m Thankful to Cliff For… Taking us out for ice cream after dark during the summer.
These are exquisite little flowers in their own right and the pattern of moisture just goes to enhance their style even more. Sure had a stack of ‘tubes there.
Occurs to me, Micki, you coulda tight cropped one of those petals and put it up as a Take-a-Guess and dummies like me woulda sworn it was plastic bubble-wrap.
Nice flowers, Micki. I love the patterns of the dew and the rain and there is nothing like that morning light. Here's to hoping that you make it through the day. So, your girls are still "in school". Wow! You must do the all year school thing instead of summer vacation. What a trooper, especially for homeschooling! You are one patient woman!
Do you offer your kids a photography course, too? ;-)
The drops of water are indeed lovely, if only they could be magnified even further.
These are some great shots. The raindrops makes it look like the pettles are made of bubbles ... Amazing ... Have a good one
Fresh....looks a bit like candy.
These are gorgeous, Micki. Worth the physiotherapy session required for several weeks afterwards
Micki. These images are just beautiful. So soft and light!
Really cool shot! You're right about the natural droplets...
Beautiful images Micki, especially the top one. I love a wet flower!
amazing detail from waterdrops...petals look like a glass or crystal..beautiful capture:-))
It still could have been a spider carrying some blue cheese yesterday. As for today they garned an audible ouuuuu as the pictures loaded. Beautiful.
Great dew/rain shots!!
Lovely as usual:) Enjoy you time off!
Wow, lots of drops. Do you add some ;-)
Looks great!
How weird! We were looking at Paul's website at the same moment - you just commented before me as I was still in awe of the images.
Now that I am on my summer holiday for the next five weeks, I have the liberty to virtually travel anywhere around the world of photoblogs. Obviously, yours is one of my destinations! Such lovely macros which once again confirm that you've got such an eye for detail!
lovely beads of moisture, the mornings are the best time.
Amazing shot. Love the crisp feeling of this picture
lovely detail of the raindrops there, they look very fresh.
The lighting and the due makes it perfect, nice one Micki.
These are so very pretty!
No spray bottle can possibly compete with a natural coating of dew - and what tiny, tiny spheres of nature you've immortalized here!
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