I know I’ve got a lot of HDR and humor, but I do take some serious shots. / Sigma 150mm macro + Simga 2x TC / This little guy was super patient with me! Even after this he didn’t fly away.
A single drop of water. So small and overlooked. Yet heavy enough to leave an impression on a delicate rose petal. Our massive ecosystem, a fragile element of everyday life.
A little abstract-ish macro.
This is our new puppy and my old boot!
Shot on a rainy and terribly overcast day, this hummer sat perched on a barrel cactus in Arizona. I still liked his colors. Thanks for looking. / Other hummingbird shots: / / /
Black-chinned hummingbird nectar feeding. /
Two more in the series after this one… Enjoy!!
Click on thumbnails to see more gypsophila (baby’s breath) images. Ten thousand flowers in spring / the moon in autumn, / a cool breeze in summer, / snow in winter. / If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, / this is the best season of your life. / Wu-men
views: 1942 / favs: 54 My origami calendar I used tweezers to create the last few folds. The paper I folded with was about 15×15mm big. Basically I present the creator and the creation where the crane is framed by my fingers forming a circle. We can only understand size, fragility and significance when we compare two things. When we think, for example, how big the world is, we’re like tiny little specks of sand, or even atoms, to the eyes of a God holding the earth in his palm. / / For a better idea of scale: / / / I did not make this crane and take the picture with the description in my mind; but created it by instinct. It wasn’t easy drawing out my words initially. However many viewers have left very inspiring comments about my work, and for that I am grateful. Thank you. / / / / This work has been featured on the homepage and the following groups: / Masterpiece: Photography / Object Studies & Concepts / Stillness Speaks / Featured Features / Also available at Zazzle / / / / Works by Category / / Origami / Drawings,Paintings and Graphics / Abstract Photography / Guessing Games Flowers, Trees and Plants / Water and Waterscapes / Scenery/Skyscapes / Light, Shadow, and Reflections / Still Life Living Creatures / Human Portrait Japanfluence / Canada / Europe / / / More Sample Origami / / / / / / / / / / / ‘Serenity’, the Firefly spacecraft (My own design) / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / ! / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
This plant is in flower now (mid May) in North Cornwall. It likes growing here under trees, especially conifers, though this one is in the open which is probably why it hasn’t spread as rapidly as it is supposed to. Pentax K10D.
I’m bored, have a head cold and I’m stuck at home so I had to try and use my imagination with what I had around the house! I don’t know if I’ll keep this one up, I want to try and perfect it. It’s actually just a water drop on top of a tiny bougainvillea flower.. This can give you an idea of how tiny this actually is! Ohh, and this has not received any post processing.
views: 1446 / favs: 28 See my origami calendar Folded on June 21, 2008 and shot through a magnifying glass (as I only have a handhled camera without the fancy macro features – though I did use macro mode). Taken with an Olympus FE-220) A crane folded from a 3×3mm piece of trace paper The folding process and photo setup can be seen here And just for fun, I used this photo to create my new avatar (created on June 15, 2009) Born from the Cell: Behind the Scenes / / / Here is the paper: / For a better idea of scale: / I didn’t videotape myself folding as linaji suggested, but just for fun here’s a preview of the origami surgery :P. I probably used the needles more than the tweezers in this one! / / / / Also available at Zazzle / / / Works by Category / / Origami / Drawings,Paintings and Graphics / Abstract Photography / Guessing Games Flowers, Trees and Plants / Water and Waterscapes / Scenery/Skyscapes / Light, Shadow, and Reflections / Still Life Living Creatures / Human Portrait Japanfluence / Canada / Europe / More Sample Origami / / Fly / / / Born from the Hand / Born from Fingers / / / Born from the Pinky / / / / 3cm Family Swim / / / 3cm Family Swim / / / Arctic Playground / / / / Sailing Along The Lifeline / / / Life is a Journey / / / Surprise! / / / Love Birds / / / Hummingbird / / / / ‘Serenity’, the Firefly spacecraft (My own design) / / / The Search for Water / / / Nessie’s Lair / / / / Origummy / / / Red String of Fate / / / / Bloomed from Fingers / / / The Blooming, the Withering, and the Everlasting / / / Spring Beginnings / / / Little White Peacock in a Field of Color / / / Thumbelina’s Flower / / / Lily / / / / Remembrance / / / Every Little Peace / / / Penguin in a Snowstorm / / / Monkey Mischief / / / / Monkey Bars / / / Bigfoot meets BIG foot / / / Money Pond / / / / A Little Spell / / / A Little Thanksgiving / / / / Heartbeat / / / Tough Shell, Delicate Soul / / / / The Key to Peace / / / / Snow Flower / / / Snow Flower / / / Glass Horse / / / Folded Cup (My own design) / / / Bubbly Planes / / / I Hope God Likes Chocolate / / / Guardian Angel / / / / Substitute for a silent mouth of sorrow / / / Silent Language of Flowers / / / Soul Taker / / / /
Two very tiny flowers of Solomon’s-seal,a native plants in my garden. / /
5000+ Views / Favs: 61 / / / / My origami calendar / / Just one sheet makes a big difference; / One sheet that can make over 2000 cranes. / Each crane a step closer to a better world; / Each piece a step closer to peace. Each square in the grid paper is 5×5mm; and to be exact, there were 2028 full squares in the paper When I was in grade 5 our teacher read “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes” to our class. Sadako Sasaki was infected with leukemia. She spent her days folding cranes and making wishes upon them; wishing for her health and for a more peaceful world (the quote above is my writing inspired by the story of the thousand paper cranes). This concept was originally created in 2008, and photographed without a tripod. But now I have a tripod and decided to re-shoot this again and re-uploaded it on September 6, 2009. This piece has been included among RB’s featured pages, and in the following groups: / Inspired Art / Young Enthusiasts / No More Color / / Winner of The Challenge For a better idea of scale: / / / / / Also available at Zazzle / Works by Category / / Origami / Drawings,Paintings and Graphics / Abstract Photography / Guessing Games Flowers, Trees and Plants / Water and Waterscapes / Scenery/Skyscapes / Light, Shadow, and Reflections / Still Life Living Creatures / Human Portrait Japanfluence / Canada / Europe / / / More Sample Origami / / / / / / / / / / / / / ‘Serenity’, the Firefly spacecraft (My own design) / / / / / / / /
views: 1161 / favs: 45 My origami calendar I folded the mother duck out of trace paper around the time I saw ducklings on the way to work; can read about that here. I can’t remember how big the paper was; I believe 13×13mm. The two little ducklings in the centre were folded from 6×6mm pieces of trace paper while the little one at the back was folded from a 5×5mm piece of trace paper. I know mother duck is just behind the 4cm mark, but the duckling at the back is infront of the 1cm mark, hence the duck family is a 3cm spread ^ _ ^ New version added August 21, 2008 / Looks great on a card! Although maybe distracting at work; lol. / Also available at Zazzle / This work has been featured in: / Ebony and Ivory / Numbers One to a Trillion / Waterfowl / Little Things To Make You Smile / Weekly Theme Challenges / Color Me a Rainbow / Boredom Competitions on the 24/7 / / Works by Category Origami / Drawings,Paintings and Graphics Flowers, Trees and Plants / Water and Waterscapes / Scenery/Skyscapes / Light, Shadow, and Reflections / Still Life Living Creatures / Human Portrait Japanfluence / Canada / Europe / / / More Sample Origami Fly / / / Born from the Hand / Born from Fingers / / / Born from the Pinky / / / / 3cm Family Swim / / / Arctic Playground / / / / Sailing Along The Lifeline / / / Life is a Journey / / / / Born from the Cell / / / Origami Surgery / / / / Surprise! / / / Love Birds / / / Hummingbird / / / / ‘Serenity’, the Firefly spacecraft (My own design) / / / The Search for Water / / / Nessie’s Lair / / / / Origummy / / / Red String of Fate / / / / Bloomed from Fingers / / / The Blooming, the Withering, and the Everlasting / / / Spring Beginnings / / / Little White Peacock in a Field of Color / / / Thumbelina’s Flower / / / Lily / / / / Remembrance / / / Every Little Peace / / / Penguin in a Snowstorm / / / Monkey Mischief / / / / Monkey Bars / / / Bigfoot meets BIG foot / / / Money Pond / / / / A Little Spell / / / A Little Thanksgiving / / / / Heartbeat / / / Tough Shell, Delicate Soul / / / / The Key to Peace / / / / Snow Flower / / / Snow Flower / / / Born from the Cell: Behind the Scenes / / / Glass Horse / / / Folded Cup (My own design) / / / Bubbly Planes / / / I Hope God Likes Chocolate / / / Guardian Angel / / / / Substitute for a silent mouth of sorrow / / / Silent Language of Flowers / / / Soul Taker / / / /
Jumping Spider (Olympus 510) / The jumping spider family (Salticidae) contains more than 500 described genera and over 5,000 species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species (Peng et al., 2002). Jumping spiders have good vision and use it for hunting and navigating. They are capable of jumping from place to place, secured by a silk tether. Both their book lungs and the tracheal system are well-developed, as they depend on both systems (bimodal breathing). Jumping spiders are generally diurnal, active hunters. Their well developed internal hydraulic system extends their limbs by altering the pressure of body fluid (blood) within them. This enables the spiders to jump without having large muscular legs like a grasshopper. The jumping spider can therefore jump 20 to 60 or even 75-80 times the length of their body. When a jumping spider is moving from place to place, and especially just before it jumps, it tethers a filament of silk to whatever it is standing on. Should it fall for one reason or another, it climbs back up the silk tether. Jumping spiders are Scopula bearing spiders, which means that they have a very interesting Tarsal section. And the end of each leg they have hundreds of tiny hairs, which each then split into hundreds more tiny hairs, each tipped with an “end foot”. These thousands of tiny feet allow them to climb up and across virtually any terrain. They can even climb up glass by gripping onto the tiny imperfections, usually an impossible task for any spider. Jumping spiders also use their silk to weave small tent-like dwellings where females can protect their eggs, and which also serve as a shelter while moulting. Jumping spiders are known for their curiosity. If approached by a human hand, instead of scuttling away to safety as most spiders do, the jumping spider will usually leap and turn to face the hand. Further approach may result in the spider jumping backwards while still eyeing the hand. The tiny creature will even raise its forelimbs and “hold its ground”. Because of this contrast to other arachnids, the jumping spider is regarded as inquisitive as it is seemingly interested in whatever approaches it. (Wiki)
A silver bosunbird chick, barely days old, sitting in-between its broken egg. Christmas Island, Indian Ocean Territories, Australia. Taken with Canon 5D and 28-105mm L Series lens @ 105mm. / As is – no editing.
East Greenbush, NY USA / Olympus E510 / The Megachilidae are a cosmopolitan family of (mostly) solitary bees whose pollen-carrying structure (called a scopa) is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other bee families). Megachilid genera are most commonly known as mason bees and leafcutter bees, reflecting the materials they build their nest cells from (soil or leaves, respectively); a few collect plant or animal hairs and fibers, and are called carder bees. All species feed on nectar and pollen, but a few are cleptoparasites (informally called “cuckoo bees”), feeding on pollen collected by other megachilid bees. Parasitic species do not possess a scopa. The brightly colored scopa leads to a colloquial name used occasionally in North America – “Jelly-belly bees.” Megachilid bees are among the world’s most efficient pollinators because of their energetic swimming-like motion in the reproductive structures of flowers, which moves pollen, as needed for pollination. Ironically, one of the reasons they are efficient pollinators is their frequency of visits to plants, but this is because they are extremely inefficient at gathering pollen; compared to all other bee families, megachilids require on average nearly ten times as many trips to flowers to gather sufficient resources to provision a single brood cell. / North America has many native megachilid species, but Alfalfa leafcutter bees (Megachile rotundata) are an imported species used for pollination. The most significant native species is Osmia lignaria (the “Orchard Mason Bee” or “Blue Orchard Bee”), which is sold commercially for use in orchard crop pollination, and which can be attracted to nest in wooden blocks with holes drilled in them (which are also sold commercially for this purpose). (wiki) /
Is it flying through space or peering through a macro lens? I can’t really explain what I feel about this one. It kind of creeps me out. But I really really love it, feel a part of it. Please see my Etsy listing for this image – and purchase a pearlescent metallic print of this beautiful photograph!
As mentioned in my Penguin in a Snow Storm, I saw mobii’s Origami Penguin Tee shirt, and wanted to give it a go myself. This is the scenario I had in mind for it, and the first penguin I folded (the one in Penguin in a Snow Storm folded from a 7×7mm piece of paper) was too small, so I folded two bigger penguins with 14×14mm pieces of paper. The one on the left is flying up a bit after the right one stomped onto the other end. The seasaw is a cotton swab, and the “ice”, upon which the penguins and seesaw are reflected, is a plastic container. For a better idea of scale: / This work has been featured in / Color Me a Rainbow / Little Things To Make You Smile This work won 1st place in this challenge but the record got lost due to this accident. But I’m very thankful to the host Pene who has re-accepted my work into the group and made a special note in the challenge about my winning work. / / / / / It looks great on a card! More sample origami
Abstract Macro Photography The picture below is a stolen, burnt out car. / This is showing the rear right side. / You can see what has been produced by the fire / Armley Woods, Leeds. / sunday 31.5.09 / 7.15am / For all these phenomina to appear on the car, the car has been left on fire, and eventually, there is nothing left on the car to burn, so it just dies out. the paint work on the car , bubbles up and seperates itself from the metal at very hot temperatures. / Once it is all cool down, it is very delicate. / You just blow the flakey paint lightly, and this abstract art lies beneath. / If the car had been put out by water, im pretty sure that no abstracts would have appeared.
Taken with a Canon 5D Mark II, 100 mm macro lens. Featured in ‘For the love of Canon’ / Featured in ‘Backyard Macro and Close ups’ / Top Ten- Water challenge in ‘Boredom Competitions’ This photo and many more are in my Raindrop calendar. Click on the photo below to view it. / Some of my other daisy / dandelion photos /
My origami calendar / / I feel my heart being pulled when we are not together, / Longing for the day we are with each other. / The thread between us will never break; / Our destinies are tied by the red string of fate. / / The red string of fate is based on a Chinese myth that the gods tie an invisible red string around the ankles of men and women destined to be soulmates. This myth is has been adapted into other east asian cultures as well. I first became familiar with it by watching anime; though in those cases, one would attempt to match up couples by tying their fingers. This image, while on one hand based on that Chinese legend, is one that defines me. With the red thread forming the heart, I frame what is currently my greatest passion: miniature origami. I fold using tweezers, and sometimes with needles (I show a needle here, though for these hearts I only used tweezers as they are not that small). The hearts of paper and string, while representing my passion, also represent my soul, and how my fate is bound by the constraints of life. I’m in my own little world bound by a thread of fate; though my passion lies in a world of paper. While most women primarily use needles for sowing; I primarily use them for tiny origami :P I would adjust the position of the objects here with tweezers, and sometimes got magnetic reactions between the tweezers and the needle. They say opposites attrack… but they are both metal :] Each heart was folded from a 15×15mm piece of paper. Taken with an Olympus FE-340. Great for Valentines day or as love letters, because you and your loved ones were destined by fate. For a better idea of scale: This work has been featured in: / Macro Photography / Inspired Art / All About Hearts / Color Me a Rainbow / / / Also available at Zazzle / / / The Zazzle card consists of the little verse I wrote, but customers may customize it to have it removed or have their own personal messages written as well. The quality of Zazzle products is not as high as Redbubble but still does justice for occasions. Works by Category / / Origami / Drawings,Paintings and Graphics / Abstract Photography / Guessing Games Flowers, Trees and Plants / Water and Waterscapes / Scenery/Skyscapes / Light, Shadow, and Reflections / Still Life Living Creatures / Human Portrait Japanfluence / Canada / Europe
Canon 350D / F/5.6 / 1/50seg / ISO-100 Nasturtium. / Best viewed larger, thank you xxx Featured in The Woman Photographer 22nd September 2009 / Featured in Portugal 22nd September 2009 / Featured in Alphabet Soup 25th September 2009
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