Wow! Absolutely beautiful!
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Wow! Absolutely beautiful!
Very beautiful!
Okay---Awesome & Amazing! Like a Bob Ross Painting. Yup.
So much traffic on the way to the village today....
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Wow. Gorgeous.
One of the oldest buildings in our village today:
https://i.imgur.com/kpVquI7.jpg
BAE You send the best photos! I love the church and labyrinth. Your land of sky and water makes me think I could move that far north... Thank you!
I am brilliant! Haha, am very pleased with myself NOT due to this artistic effort which is sadly mediocre, but because I solved an interior design problem as follows:
my tiny condo has no closet in the small bedroom ‘tho it has plenty of closets elsewhere. We throw our not-quite-dirty clothes over the bed rail, a chair, etc. creating visual clutter.
I bought this French screen with the intention of painting over the ugly art on it. It is to sit at the foot of the bed, hiding the air conditioner.
But my brilliant lightbulb idea is to hang hooks on the back of it for clothes. Perfect!
Honestly, it take me ages to figure out solutions in small spaces. I have been measuring, online shopping, re-measuring, rethinking, doing more shopping to fit exactly the right furniture into a very small bathroom in Hermann. I lost out on a perfeft wicker cabinet on Facebook Marketplace. Someone got to it before me. But I was cheered to know that something in the right material snd dimensions exists.
Here is the screen about half done.
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Looking forward to seeing the photo! Sounds like a brilliant idea! I know what you mean about small space solutions. I have really enjoyed the challenge! Ironically, our teeny kitchen is the most efficient one we've ever had. DH, my Gordon Ramsey fanboy, loves cooking in our kitchen (although he pines for a Viking stove).Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
My small space hacks have definitely included the use of hooks!
Very nice. That is a very solid looking screen. Is it wood?
I think 3M sticky solutions are becoming my best friends.we hung some light paintings with them. I am going to get a sticky cord holder for my co do and paint it wall color. Hooks and mor hooks to hang on wall and elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Great solution, IL! Small-space solutions are always a cause for celebration around here as well.
I am not sure. It may be some kind of composite, or may be wood veneer over something. It was cheap in the vintage store.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
I don’t know if drilling into it will work hence my plan for 3M sticky hooks.
This photo demonstrates the excellent help I have these days setting up flower show exhibits. Madison Cat likes to assist. I did not pose Madison here. She got up in that space by herself. And in doing so, she pointed out one area that perhaps should filled with some object although some negative space is good.
This is one of the more archane things flower show ladies make, an “exhibition table” which suggests food service using whatever materials but must include some plant material. My plant material is palm leaves.
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What a clever assistant!
I like that piece--I think the palm leaves go well with the colors and pattern of the plates.
Madison really makes it special.
This project got me through the dull winter. It's largely Blackwork, with a bit of cross stitch, Kloster blocks, herringbone and French knots. Off to the framers next week.
ETA it measures 10 x 10 in.
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KayLR, that is beautiful! (as is Madison and your - her - exhibit piece, IL!)
that is a beautiful piece! So delicate. And pink and green is always the right color combo choice.Quote:
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That is beautiful Kay!
Beautiful, Kay!
Your work is lovely, Kay!
That's the perfect combination of colors and stitch variety; very nice.Quote:
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Wow! Very nice, Kay!!
I was testing a new camera/lens today, when I got photobombed.
This is heavily cropped in, to catch the intruder, but it's pretty impressive what modern cameras can pull off, even in not especially good conditions!
I guess Spring is on the way, yay!
https://i.imgur.com/dZr0o36.jpg
So pink. So nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
Handsome fellow!
I'm thinking now it might be a bee mimic and not an actual bee, but that is well outside my wheelhouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
So, cool! Look at all the pollen on the lil guy. Great resolution!
Beautiful and an amazing shot!
Another summer visitor arrived this afternoon while I was lens-testing:
https://i.imgur.com/pLgEhwZ.jpg
Lovely! We need all the well-fed bees we can get.
Obviously, the lens is a keeper.
That's a nice look at springtime. Everything is brown here. Those little critters can be moving fast to photograph. Flash?Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
Oh, these are the devil to try to catch with this lens. It's a macro lens, so it has a very shallow depth of field. In addition, as you get closer to your subject, you get a fair bit less light.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
This lens opens up to F2.8 and remains pretty crisp and flat even wide open, but then the depth of field is too shallow to get the whole bee, or even just its head, in focus. So you have to stop down a bit, but, then, less light.
And then the bee is wriggling and moving, and the flower moving a bit in the breeze, so you can't just set up a tripod. So these are hand-held shots.
I did this and the previous insect photo with outdoor light, mid-day, with a bit of overcast.
The rate of "keeper" photos is fairly low with this method, but with modern digital cameras no real film is wasted. So far, the best technique I've come up with involves getting focus "close" with the focus ring (and the modern digital camera's focus-peaking indicators), and then slightly moving myself back and forth to track the moving insect. I seem to get about 20%-ish keepers, and that's with a purely mechanical-focus lens, no auto-focusing AI was used for this project.
Much to learn still :-). Any sort of ring light or flash would improve the situation immeasurably, but as I started out doing astrophotography, the whole "flash" thing is a mystery to me still.
I've dabbled in macro photos a bit and usually try some summer and spring flower photos. I have a small kit with a diffuser and and different color reflectors to clamp onto a tripod for flowers. Bug photos are hard, though and I'm not that patient. I believe my macro lens is a fixed 100mm f4 on a full frame sensor and I've sometimes used a 1.6X doubler. I need to dust it off soon. I've mostly done bird photos for a volunteer project and hobby landscapes.
PBS had a great feature about a guy who became obsessed with bee filming. He has quite the gear.
https://www.mygardenofathousandbees.com/
That little,guynis doing his job, spreading pollen.
Again, beautiful picture, bae. Thanks for sharing.
That's a great picture, Bae!
You might enjoy some of the work by Bill Johnson. He wrote a great monthly column devoted to garden insects and featuring his photography in Horticulture magazine. Unfortunately, he doesn't appear to be a current contributor, but I always enjoyed his work. He has a website: https://billjohnsonbeyondbutterflies...of-pollinators
I won “ Best in Show” in the daffodil show this weekend with this floral design that interprets the song “Lady Marmalade.” It was fun to make. The second photo is a large design I made for the lobby of the show hall.
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Congrats, Iris! Just lovely!
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