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Tallula or Pebbles?

Either way, they are some of my favorite subjects

I was trying out a new point & shoot camera last week and found this. The camera didn’t quite suit me, so it’s going back, but I did find this image interesting… Click for a larger view. I am glad that at least it got me back into the groove of Macro Mondays.

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Do you see what I see?

This week’s Macro Monday is a guest feature. These are photos by my daughter, Gurunam Atwal, playing with her new DSLR. Who knew our front yard contained all these interesting images? Click for a larger view.

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And from outside the 'bug's life' theme...

This week’s Macro Monday brings up photos from last summer and a visit to Tired Dog Ranch. I wish that this old neck and back could tell us their stories… Click for a larger view.

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My favorite

Muscles of unknown age

How many have sat on this back and how many miles has it taken them?

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Mandala

Hearing Me

Favorite Place to Be

This week’s Macro Monday brings photos from my latest visit to Tired Dog Ranch and some time with their flock of chickens. It was cold, snowing and wet. Most of the flock took refuge in the hay barn, where they were happy to pose for me this morning.

I took out my Sigma zoom macro lens this time. I’ve also been making a point of using the full frame and not cropping my images. It makes me think more before shooting. I first learned photography with a Yashica twin lens reflex camera and did my own developing. Shooting full frame takes me back to that more thoughtful shooting just a little bit.

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Feathered Landscape

chicken feathers

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Feathered Textures was first posted on March 8, 2009 at 11:03 pm.
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Macro Monday and some photos from my model horse days. Since the largest of these is about 10″ high, most of the photos end up being macro photos. In fact, documenting my model work got me more seriously into macro photography, as I had to collect equipment, set up a small ‘studio’ and arrange lighting. Click for a larger view.

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Entirely new sculpted neck on a Breyer Lonesome Glory.

Breyer and Stone model heads on sticks - waiting to be attached to their new bodies, often not the one that they came from.

The Lonesome Glory - finished as a mare. All resculpting and painting by myself

Details of a Marlena resin airbrushed and hand painted by me to a dapple bay appaloosa half Arab.

Here is one of her striped hooves.

And the whole resin (sculpted by Carol Gasper)

Face detail on a Miss Kitty resin sculpted by Laurie Jo Jensen

Another eye on a Nocturno resin sculpted by Kitty Cantrell

Sabino Arab mare that I did early on in oils. I believe that she is in Europe now. Resin by Pamela DeMuth.

Alzubra resin by Debbi LerMond. A little stylized for my taste, but I loved the color she came out as.

She had a cool skinny blaze too.

And last, because it is one of the few Stablemate scale resins that I ever painted, a Spinnaker, sculpted by Sarah Minkiewicz Breunig. He is 3.25 inches tall.

And that may be one of the reasons that I wear reading glasses now. I no longer customize and paint models or resins. There is a possibility that I will go back to sculpting some day. Only time will tell. Well, how much time I have that is.

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From my model days was first posted on February 22, 2009 at 8:48 pm.
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Macro Monday and a memorial. Skittles was an orphan, who was hand raised at Tired Dog Ranch. He was just coming into his plumage, when his life came to an untimely end. He was inquisitive and fun. Photographing him was wonderful, though it was sometimes hard to get him far enough away to take any photos. Click for a larger view.

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Texture

Juvenile Texture with a tiny hint of color

And more texture

I got this shot only after pushing him away.

Here he is, showing off to the chickens.

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The Glory that was Skittles was first posted on February 16, 2009 at 12:22 am.
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Another Macro Monday and some more colorful images from a trip to NM last summer. Click for a larger view.

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Geranium

Junk Yard Patina

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Macro New Mexico was first posted on February 9, 2009 at 12:10 am.
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Another Macro Monday brings this collection of photographs from my last visit to TDR. I love that they are nearly monocromatic. I briefly considered turning them into black and white images, but liked that there was a very slight shade of color to them, so they are staying as they are. Click for a larger view.

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Madrone

Bench outside the Cowboy Cabin

Not really a macro image, but I like it, so I'm including it.

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Naturally Monochromatic was first posted on February 2, 2009 at 12:08 am.
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