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Weekly Phoneography: Blown bulb

Macro view of a blown bulb base .blown bulb

Phoneography Monday Challenge: Macro
Apps used: Samsung Note 10.1 LTE native camera, Snapseed
Our energy saving bulbs in the study had blown recently and I was surprised to find the craters in the base… sort of like a minor earthquake had occurred within the bulb. Hence the choice of subject matter for the macro theme.

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Crop and turn a bad picture into a good one

Some people take pictures with planning and care. They check the edges of their frame, their composition, the light, etc and try to take the picture in such a way that there will be minimal needs for editing it too much later on.

But when one is dealing with living things, particularly small ones with only a camera phone in hand, one just tries to take sharp pictures as much as possible.

Remember the creepy crawlies?

These little dudes were constantly wriggling away so much that it was impossible for them to be sharp if one went too near. This meant that my camera phone had to be further away from them.

To get this photo:

I had to crop it from this shot:

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Phoneography weekly: Creepy Crawlies


Phoneography Monday Challenge: Macro
Apps used: Camera+, Snapseed, VSCOcam, Moldiv

I’m not sure whether these are caterpillars or not but they were flourishing in the garden downstairs. These might be the yellow spotted millipede. Normally, Donna and I just walk past them but the other day I thought I would try taking pictures.

It was then that I really started seeing them. And what I saw was greatly amusing.

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