close-up – Page 7

Glasses

Back to hunting that rare item of interest lurking in the apartment’s undergrowth, with my trusty 60mm macro lens and Litra cube

Quite a Yarn

There’s gonna be a lot of crocheting going on and I’ll remain crotchetty.

Nuts and Bolts

I’ve been taking most of these indoor shots, for photographers who want to know,with the excellent Fuji 60mm macro lens and a shoe-mounted Litra cube.

Covid-19 Supplies

Neither in Florida, nor here in NY have we been able to find antiseptic wipes, masks (now mandatory for venturing outside) or gloves. Here, our dwindling supply of hand sanitizer.

Daily Bread

In Florida we had no cooking facilities whatsoever. Sheltering in place now, Margaret has baked delicious bread.

A couple more from Duncan McClellan

I couldn’t find any placards to identify these, the top image is a set of glass globes from their students; the bottom one is a close-up of a metal sculpture in the gardens.

(These pictures were shot over a week ago – everything’s shut now and we’re complying with attempts to halt the spread of Covid-19 by not going out except for necessities).

Another interesting shot (to me, at least) with the Fuji 60mm macro lens, shooting at f/2.4. I happened to notice this forlorn blackberry on the kitchen counter – it must have rolled out of the container unnoticed and I grabbed my camera and switched to the macro lens for this shot, just playing around, really. Talk about narrow depth of field and bokeh!

Ocean Still Life

Leo Carillo State Park, Malibu, California

The beach at Leo Carillo State Park leaves many tidal pools with various creatures in them. we clambered through caves and over rocks to see them and I took lots of still life shots of what we saw.

Click any image to see them all enlarged.

Sunlight

By lunchtime the sun had peeped out and I had occasion to pull out the Fujifilm 60mm macro lens for these shots of the sunlight passing through a glass of water onto the tablecloth.

Flowing Lights

I neglected to capture what this was or by whom, a collection of hanging lights in a forest of black threads.

Metro Art

Katydid

Saw this giant insect, sitting on a chair in one of the shipping containers that make up Photoville. It remained, unmoving, while I switched to my macro lens ( I knew there was a reason I lug that thing around)).

New Toy

Just got a new toy: Fuji’s 60mm f2.4 macro lens. It’s a nice portrait length, fast enough to provide some beautiful out-of-focus effect and is also a macro lens – my first! These are the first 2 shots I took after taking it out of the box – not too shabby (and beautiful models don’t hurt)!

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