The Flickr Ilca77M2 Image Generatr

.. and heavy as a stone!
I guess they could also be soft and hard - animal and mineral.
Shot with the bright morning sun lighting the space between them 😊

For the Crazy Tuesday challenge: "Opposites attract"

Crazy Tuesday: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here

Happy Sliders Sunday! 😊

My Sliders Sunday set is here: Here
Post-processing set: Here
The colour Blue: Here
Crystal ball, prisms and marbles: Here

For the 'Smile on Saturday' group: "display the D..."😊

It's the time of year when our Daphne bush flowers. The flowers are scented, and especially in the evening their lovely fragrance drifts indoors. The flowers are so tiny that one of my miniature vases seemed the best way to display them!

Cliché and Smile on Saturday: Here
Miniature Vases: Here
From the garden Here
Still Life Compositions: Here

Lichen together with dried hydrangea flowers. They both share the lighter, gentler tones of the winter.
Shot here on glass, in Spring sunshine that is transforming the world.

Happy Bokeh Wednesday!

Still Life Compositions: Here
The colours of winter: Here
From the garden Here

Lake Constance
Meersburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Sony Alpha a77 II
Sony DT 16-50mm f/2.8 SSM
16mm / ƒ/8 / 1/320s / ISO 100

The second image I created for a B+W challenge on Monday - it seemed a shame not to post it too 😊

Happy Monochrome Thursday 😊

B/W Tinted and Mono Here
Miniature Vases: Here
My Lines & Curves: Here

For the MM challenge: B&W

Not just black and white, but the hard and the soft too.
I wasn't sure whether post-production was allowed for this challenge, so I played safe and chose a black vase and a white flower!
The miniature vase is just under 3cm at it's widest point ... and the tiny geranium is from an indoor pot ...

My MM 2025 set: Here

previous years of the Macro Mondays challenge:

My 2024 set: Here
My 2023 set: Here
My 2022 set: Here
My 2021 set: Here
My 2020 set: Here
My 2019 set: Here
My 2018 set: Here
My 2017 set: Here
My 2016 set: Here
My 2015 set: Here
My 2014 set: Here
My 2013 set: Here

I'll be away from Flickr for most of this coming week.
Not so much a holiday break, as some time to sort out the tech issues that laptop and desktop are both suffering from.
Hopefully I can get them back on track, and then maybe relax with a good book for a while. Poetry is my abiding interest, so the large tome of Louise Gluk poems is beckoning me 😊📖📚
See you again soon!

From the garden Here
Still Life Compositions: Here
Paper Words Books and Games: Here
My Simple Pleasures set: Here

4 marbles on hand-made white paper ... in the morning sunshine.

For Looking close on Friday group - Red on White 😊

Looking Close: Here
My Glass set is: Here
Everyday Things : Here
My Lines & Curves: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here

What to do with a sudden burst of sunshine?
grab a camera ...

Happy Monochrome Thursday 😊

B/W Tinted and Mono Here
My Glass set is: Here
Everyday Things : Here
My Lines & Curves: Here

The colour match just struck me as too good to miss!
A miniature Japanese vase, a glass bauble, and some acer leaves from the garden.

Happy Bokeh Wednesday ☺️

Still Life Compositions: Here
My Glass set is: Here
From the garden Here
Miniature Vases: Here

Flowers are always joyful to me.
Like Jupiter from the Planets Suite, imagining a planet has an emotional life ... as the bringer of jollity or joy ... I feel flowers are joyful 😊
Here, chrysanthemums and gypsophila dance in the sunshine!

Happy Floral Friday!

Still Life Compositions: Here
My Chrysanthemum set: Here

Explored Mar 8, 2025 no.45

The last shoot of a bunch of tulips. So often they are interesting right to the end!

Happy Bokeh Wednesday ☺️

Still Life Compositions: Here
My Tulip set: Here
My Glass set is: Here

Happy Sliders Sunday! 😊

My Sliders Sunday set is here: Here
Post-processing set: Here
The colour Blue: Here
Crystal ball, prisms and marbles: Here
My Glass set is: Here

… amid the many storms that surround us. 😊
I find there's something relaxing on the eye when we keep the colour palette simple. Colours really can elicit emotional responses.
Just as taking the noises away rests my ears, so minimizing the colours can rest my eyes … and hopefully my mind too!

All things Japanese: Here
My Food and drink set: Here
Cliché and Smile on Saturday: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here

Small ice-cream tubs.

For the Crazy Tuesday challenge: "Upside down"

This topic chimes for me, as we've been watching a TV show called Unforgotten. And it has a simple, haunting little lyric that includes the words

"I've been upside down
I don't wanna be the right way round
Can't find paradise on the ground"

"All we do" by Oh Wonder; www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyyJF_rbaqg

Crazy Tuesday: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here

One of my Simple Pleasures is to keep empty eggshells as they make wonderful still life subjects 😊

For the Smile on Saturday challenge: "expose the E..."

Cliché and Smile on Saturday: Here
My Food and drink set: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here

For the Crazy Tuesday challenge: "Pegs"

Crazy Tuesday: Here
Still Life Compositions: Here