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Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #460: Signs

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : Brush I used Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 to shoot this. Up to 35 mm equivalent focal length, it focuses down to 3 cm distance, which gives a pretty good magnification! =)

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: Cottonwool Update 2020/11/13: I replaced the image with a better version. I cropped the image to center the "black sheep", Then I used Snapseed Android app's Healing tool to make the middle of the black sheep look sharper.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: Macrofenced and " Autumn leaves " Contribution for the Happy Fence Friday 2020/11/13 Notice the URL for HFF contribution! That is awesome! One can give a link to one's own contribution on the group page where it appears!

Addicted My name is Sami, and I am coffeeholic.

Coffee beans

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : Macrofenced

I saw this on TV, a lady with spectacles interviewed. I noticed she had no steamy spectacles. So, put it into test today. The mask may "leak" more from the sides, but that also help the air escape from sides instead of next to nose. And therefore less need to touch face to wipe the glasses every now and then. UPDATE: Tying a surgical mask to prevent fogging

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #459: Take a picture using a mobile phone OR a picture of a mobile phone Two birds with one stone! I used a Canon Camera Connect Android app to remote control my Canon G5 X. Then I used the same app to upload the image from camera to phone, and used Snapseed Android app to edit the image. And finally I uploaded the image from phone to ipernity. So, who needs PC? =D Sources: ➽ Learn Mobile Photography by PicxTrix. ➽ A Beginners Guide to Photo Editing With Snapseed (pdf) by PicxTrix.

A drop of coffee

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge: pebbles So hungry " I could eat pebbles ", as says Lauri in the first significant novel in Finnish written by Aleksis Kivi . So, this proverb is very familiar to us Finns. A teaspoon filled with pebbles found around Kristinestad . That small coastal town had a great role in tar export around 17th century. Ships sailed out with barrels of tar as their cargo, and came back with gravel as their ballast. So, stones from the faraway shores and exotic immigrant plants can be found still today around the streets of Kristinestad.

Take a sip... Finnish Moomin hysteria has no limits! Every year there comes a new set of mugs, plates and other tableware. And also collectables, like mini mugs that are merely supposed to be used as pendants, key fobs or decorative items. And because I've been running out of coffee shot ideas, I decided to indulge myself with a set of these rather useless items.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge: drop Learning something new every day. I've been wondering why the water drops seem to form round pearls especially on the oak leaves. I first thought it is because of lotus effect , but then realized it is actually an epicuticular wax as a plant cuticle that really does the job. So, the wax on leaves makes them water repellant.

" At night, when all the colours die, they hide in pairs and read about themselves -- in colour, with their eyelids shut. " ~ Craig Raine , A Martian sends a postcard home ▶️ Evita Ative, Daily Green Routine , 2019 (11/15) of The One Minutes Series Martians Send Videos Home curated by Joseph Popper. ⁠⠀ ➽ More postcards

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #458: Abstract Photography Before uploading my contribution, I read what Ghislaine wrote on her contribution description . That made me to think (again) what is abstract . I had already taken and edited my shot, based on my own subconscious understanding on this genre. But I started to think why and how I had done so. Just as Craig Hull says: " Abstract photography is difficult to define ." However, my own definition is that the abstract art actually can be the same as how the word abstract is used in a very different meaning and context: " An abstract is a brief summary [..] of a particular subject .. ." So, at best, an abstract painting, photograph or any work of art, gives a summary . Or that can be one way to see it. For example here the subject is the busy city lights seen at night. I used long exposure to stretch the lights. I used MirrorLab Android app effects to add a sphere, which in a way symbolizes photography to me. World is seen through lenses and mirrors. Photography can capture reality pretty accurately, but it can also distort it. And finally I saturated the image, to emphasize the colors of modern urban landscape seen at night. So, in my mind, abstract art emphasizes and summarizes the essential; what is seen by the artist. It can be colors, ambiance, shapes and/or all of them. It tells what the artist saw, and what the scene is about.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge: " Woolen Dogs " 35 mm equivalent 35.0 mm focal length used to give enough wide angle lens view. The Woolen Dog (dust bunnie) is pretty much as close as one can get with this pocket camera. But the overall composition and point of view was the main point. LED torch light used to lit the foreground. Turned to black and white to get rid of the color temperature problems. But also as a tribute to Nipper .