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cogitating euphorbia? or praying? or holding its face in its hands?

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folds on the "leaf" mass of a succulent, kind of looks like a brain folds, or folded hands

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A low-light 3am shot.

A book of poetry lying open on a white wooden table beside a white porcelain cup and saucer containing reflective black tea.

and more from downtown

#magicinthemundane #macrophotography #macro

a close-up of a portion of cement sidewalk with larger bits of gravel, where someone has spilled a significant amount of milk on the ground, which floods the flat portions of the cement in white, but leaves all the tiny stones looking like islands

this feels like an old-timey still life portrait, but with random sidewalk detritus

#moss #mosstodon #magicinthemundane

a midmorning view of the right-angle concrete edge of a parking space, which has accumulated a healthy-sized lump of moss, a few dead leaves, and a smattering of gravel

#MagicInTheMundane I found a lunch spot for someone who enjoys seeds, and uses the log to crack them open.

A cut log on the forest floor has one end absolutely heaped with a big pile of husks from fir cones.

Ice crystals growing on the edge of a heated bird bath at -17 degree Fahrenheit
#photography #MagicInTheMundane

Top down view looking into a heated bird bath. On the left, ice crystals grow out onto the water. The ice is white and the branches of the ice look like the branches and needles on an evergreen tree.

Polystyrene. Hate the stuff but the patterns when light shines through it are great. #MagicInTheMundane

Polystyrene packaging with light shining through from below, makes it look like some castle in a fantasy

A recess in polystyrene packaging with light shining through it. Looks like a window with a covering

More of the polystyrene with thick and thin areas and light shining through it creating light and dark patterns

A close up of the polystyrene grains with light shining through. The lighting is graduated because of a ridge on the opposite side of the

Skipping stones into the sunset
#photography #nature #MagicInTheMundane

A red and orange sunset over Lake Michigan. The sun is sitting right above the water. In the foreground a flat piece of ice hovers 2 feet over the water and you can see the circular splash where it just skipped off of the water.

'Was zu trinken (kein Alkohol)' #FotoVorschlag

danke für das deutliche umfrageergebnis, das erleichtert mir die entscheidung enorm 🤗

halbkreis plus viertelkreis plus viertelkreis, fällt einem erst mal gar nicht auf

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blick von oben in ein rundes trinkglas, von nah dran, der boden des glases füllt das halbe bild. unten am boden ist ein rest cola und in dieser cola schwimmt eine halbe zitronenscheibe, sie hängt leicht schräg, so dass genau eine hälfte von ihr, also ein viertelkreis unter der cola-oberfläche ist, dort bläschen erzeugt und orange durch die cola leuchtet.
der gesamteindruck ist sehr geometrisch: ein kreis (der glasboden) ist aufgeteil in einen halbkreis, cola-braun, und 2 viertelkreise, einer zitronengelb, einer zitrone-unter-cola-orange. die geraden linien der tischbohlen die durchs glas seitlich zu sehen sind und der runde glasrand, von dem man rechts unten unscharf etwas sieht passen gut dazu, der schemenhafte teil eines fingers links unten stört etwas.

Am not sure if a thumping great ship falls within the spirit of #MagicInTheMundane, but this lightfall caught my eye.

Short version: lightfall on a ship. Fuller description: A huge white industrial ship with red trim, quayside. 'Gute' from Visby, Sweden. It is as bombastic as the white high-rise office block behind it. The sea and sky are winter dark grey. That peculiar pre-storm bright light that you sometimes get is shining on part of the ship, making it glow bright white in a sort of pretty way, if you can use the word 'pretty' for a big ship. The lightfall is creating patterns on the lightly iced surface of the water. This photo was taken a few years ago.

Climb the ladder or the shadow? #MagicInTheMundane

Metal ladder rung that lines up with its shadow cast on a weathered red barn wall.

von der heutigen #AuwaldRunde keine krabbeltierchen, nur das x-te frostfoto, diesmal mit efeu.
aber toll sieht's allemal aus

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der blick geht streifend über eine mit efeu bewachsene fläche. aus irgendeinem grund liegen die efeublätter nicht flach, sondern haben sich alle aufgestellt, uns zu gewandt. hmm, ja, das war richtung süden, da kommt das meiste licht her. grund gefunden, rätsel gelöst. jedenfalls, fast alle efeublätter sind von einem kranz von raureif-frostkristallen umgeben, nur am rand. das weiße glitzern der kristalle kontrastiert schön mit dem dunkelgrün des efeus, seine gelben blattadern und roten stängel setzen weitere akzente

Weird shapes in the ice
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Ice on a frozen lake, mostly bright, with a dark blotch that spreads tentacles in all directions, possibly caused by snow melting patterns

Macro Photography Assignments Week 3: "Revealing Texture" - personally this one is my bread & butter, I've always had a fascination with texture, and a decent phone camera is just giving me even more ability to take an even closer look :) (and yes, I know one of these four was just recycled from earlier this morning, it's just a good representation of texture so I wanted to include it in this assignment)

#photography #MacroPhotography #abstractphotography #homework #magicinthemundane

a close-up of moss in bright sunlight, not much else to add - six bajillion pinhead-sized fronds

a pile of ashes, most taking a tubular form (these are from incense)

ice on a windshield, on a larger scale looking like water flowing from left to right, at a closer level looking like dragon scales glittering in the slight wisp of sunlight

an abstract formation of light and shadow on some white surface that at first glance seems like it might be a wall perhaps? but is actually a close-up of a piece of paper, with individual threads of pulp visible on a zoom in, and sunlight being filtered onto its surface through a crinkled clear plastic wrapper

Frost! I am REAL happy with how these came out, 2 of 2, these ones are obviously NOT all on cars.

#photography #MacroPhotography #frost #frostodon #snow #pattern #winter #magicinthemundane

a close-up of a single three-leaf clover in the grass, completely coated by frost, its outser edges more spear-like, and the flat surface of its leaves more spotted

some other leafy weed in the parking lot grassy area, completely coated in squares of frost, strangely uniformly distributed

some surface vaguely resembling asphalt, with two parallel ruptures running diagonally, the edges of the ruptures coated in frost spreading out from there, beginning to catch the morning sun. (the surface is actually the spare tire on the back of someone's car, covered with the leather tire jacket, but the jacket is starting to crack)

some bumper surface of a car, evenly coated with a dense uniform spread of rectangular boxes of frost, with half a dozen "larger structures", almost round building like, popping up from the ground, still comprised of lots of the smaller squares.

Frost! I am REAL happy with how these came out, 1 of 2, these all on cars the other morning.

#photography #MacroPhotography #frost #frostodon #snow #pattern #winter #magicinthemundane

some frost on a windshield, at the larger level looking like it's flowing down a wandering path left to right, at the smaller level shimmering like dragon's scales, a few spots just beginning to catch the morning sunlight with a slight golden glisten

more frost on a windshield, in a much less flowing pattern and more "windy and chaotic", still in a vaguely scaly pattern but more sharp and jagged

still more frost on a windshield, at the larger level resembling waves on a stormy sea, and at the smaller level hundreds of tiny ice spears/needles in strangely organized formations

yet more frost on a windshield, almost uniformy distributed, with no particular macro pattern, but at the smaller level looking like snowflakes all standing on end, like a magnet running over magnetic sand in that toy we had as kids

A two-in-one photo today for #FensterFreitag and #MagicInTheMundane : my view atm.
The weather has been miserable lately, with nothing much to see outside, not much incentive to go out. Makes it difficult to not wallow in the gloominess of this time of year. So here is my windowsill, an eclectic collection of stuff. Most of the plants are there to get as much light as possible during the winter months, but the rest of the detritus tends to live there permanently.