The close up of an orange lily

Summer Wallpapers - July

Ah, how the time flies... haven't posted anything here since spring? Honestly, I didn't have what to post, it was a rather busy period. But recently I brought the camera outside again, and decided to experiment with some wide wallpaper creation.
I was only satisfied with 2 of the photos, so I'm going to share them with you. Enjoy!

(click the images to get to the full-res version - when on Flickr, right click the image and select "Large 2048" for the highest available resolution)

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These are the original images:

Flowers in Focus

Since it's spring time, there's an explosion of beautiful flowers, some with calming fragrances. Perhaps I'm going to post more photos in this post if I'll take more shots. I may even delete some of the photos if I feel like I can do better and take more interesting photos of the same flowers.

Crocus Focus

Hyacinth( it's so close, can you smell it?)

Sunny Daffodil

Gentle Daisy

Even more Full HD wallpapers

 [Important EDIT!]

It seems that blogger resized all of the wallpapers to 1600x900( now even if you're lazy you can figure out the 16:9 aspect ratio :P). Because of that, I'm uploading them to an archive.

GameFront Mirror 
MediaFire Mirror

Again, some huge 16:9 wallpapers I created from experimentation.


Light bulb filament:

Grunge Christmas globe:

Dirty glowing light bulb:

Blue Christmas globe:

Fire light bulb:

Enjoy!

A couple of more-than-FullHD wallpapers

I decided to make a few photos and experiment with making some wallpapers out of them. Unfortunately the weather and the fact that it's winter with little snow offered me little options of what to make photos of, even macro.


These photos are higher resolution than 1920x1080 but don't expect them to be crystal smooth: my camera shows a lot of noise in low-light conditions( it was cloudy, and macro photos require quite a lot of light). For comparison, I'm uploading the original photos too.

A little bit of nature and fun

I went for a stroll, and arrived near a spring with cold, crystal fresh water, at the base of a mountain. While I was quenching my thirst, I noticed a stork changing leg positions on an abandoned pole.
I took the camera and took a few shots. In on of them, the stork was looking at me:



Just like in a real fashion presentation, its feet are not too comfortable it seems!
After that, I turned my eyes to the ground and took a few pictures with wet leaves and grass. I always love how pure the water drops look when seen up close.





It's boring to sit in the same place and try to take photos of the same subjects. So I left the place and went at the river, taking there some pictures:




I had fun taking some splashing water photos. Would be awesome to make some macro with the water still in its vertical motion, but it's really hard.






When I came back, along the river bank, I took a photo of some nut tree leaves too. Yeah, it's heavily edited to make it look a bit better:



Going even further, I almost stepped on an earth warm crossing the path. I lowered myself at ground level and took a macro shot of it.
As it turns out, something quite gross was happening: 2 warms were sucking nutrients from the poor earth worm.






I thought it'd be nice to film its odd movements. All this time, until I arrived home, I thought those pulsating things were only a leaf moving under the pulsating skin.




Well, have a fun day guys!

Obscurity

I looked through my stuff and found a very old(probably about 14-15 years) Sega Mega Drive 2, on which I used to play(mostly mario) as a kid. Near it I also found 2 cartridges...(the only 2 I ever had, but as an added bonus, the Sega drive came with its own games....). For some reason I decided to shoot a photo of the cartridge, striped from its oversized casing. In low lighting conditions, it look like something old and unuseful.




Also I made a photo of a solar lamp in the dark, trying to emphasize the effect of the light passing through the transparent piece of plastic. I might have done it wrong with the warm colors, probably a blueish-mauve tone could've worked better.

The green beetle

A short clip filmed by me:

Beauties of mid-spring

Cherry flowers



Dandelion radiance


Crystal drops on the delicate blade of grass



Tableau de la forêt au printemps



Yellow blossoms


Blue fragility

Early spring

Watching the weather forecast... oh it's getting warmer! 15*C already :O ? I must get out!
*grabbing my camera
*head towards the nearby forest

I was hoping to photograph some snowdrops. Unfortunately, they have sprung much earlier, probably early February, because they like colder temperatures(they often get out even through snow).
I instead found lots of crocus flowers, and some primroses (primula vulgaris) here and there. I was disappointed for a moment(snowdrops are spring symbols after all!), but then I was happy that I found something to photograph anyway. Crocus flowers offer lively colours :).

Crocus flowers on the forest bed

 
I am not really pleased with my photograph above. Only when I arrived home I noticed that the bottom crocus, on which I focused, is not enough included in the frame. It bothers my eyes. I left too much blurred out space on the upper part. I hope it still presents the beauty of these flowers in a natural way.




As the "focus" suggests, my sole purpose of this photo was to present the pollen structure. If you zoom in a bit, you can actually see the grains of pollen. I think I could actually made it closer, but I wanted to include the flower petals so the image looks more natural. Actually, the petal from the left was touching the lens :)



This looks like a pretty generic flower macro, but photographing from this angle those common primroses (primula vulgaris) adds a bit of depth to them. They look a bit more beautiful in my opinion than watching them from above.



2 crocus flowers blooming on the same strain. It looks beautiful!





There are a lot of daisy flowers already on the fields, and, like anybody else, I almos passed near them without noticing. Perhaps because of their size they are most of the time unobserved. So I decided to give it a shot. I was surprised to see how beautiful and gentle they look from up close. It inspires perfection and happiness :).


Currently it's again rainy and cold outside :(. But in april I hope to make more photos of other beautiful flowers, like tulips, lily of the valley and daffodils( and of course, different tree flowers !)

I wish all a lovely warm, lovely spring. Have a nice day!

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