Have A Heart, originally uploaded by Meremail.
A Kosta Boda piece piece of glass shot against the clear sky to under expose the hand, while retaining the beautiful colours of the edge and centre coloured highlights.
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Graphic pArts, originally uploaded by Meremail.
A closeup view of the large bamboo stalks shows some amazing artistic detail. It is so straight, probably because the cellular structure grows so rapidly
With bug. And View Large On Black
This site describes it as:
The growth structure of bamboo is entirely different than that presented by trees. The coarse, open cell structure so characteristic of the various woods is totally absent. In its place are found bundles of microscopic fibers laid parallel to each other, much like the strands within the sheath of a bridge cable. The spaces between adjacent bundles or cords of the bamboo are filled with lignin, a thermoplastic resin. Toward the outer surface of the hollow shell the number of these fibrous strands increases rapidly. Just below the outer protective enamel, bamboo is composed almost entirely of these cellulose fibers. Thus, considered from the outermost surface inwardly, the fiber structure, density, and strength of bamboo vary enormously.
That’s One Small Step For Man, One Giant …., originally uploaded by Meremail.
Kosta Boda Glassware up close.
A Tael To Tell, originally uploaded by Meremail.
I believe this is called a Vietnamese Tael but am happy to be advised otherwise. It has been a whiles since Mrs Mail got it when we lived in Guam in 1981ish.
The story goes ( as I recall it) that during the war/s the Vietnamese would convert their assets to gold or silver and have them made into jewelry so that they could hide it and they were always able to get their hands on cash if needed. The tael came in sizes like quarter or half or full, and this gold one is either a quarter or half, can’t remember which.
Not sure about the silver one.
In The Groove Man, originally uploaded by Meremail.
A Blonde Moment, originally uploaded by Meremail.
DISCLAIMER: I want it known up front that this wasn’t my idea, and I was pressured into it.
When suggested to me by a certain daughter who shall remain nameless, I shunned the idea because it might alienate all my blonde contacts. But eventually I succumbed to pressure and just had to do it.
2 shots, 2nd one taken just with the light hard against the wall, and then overlayed some of the light shot onto the main image and softly erased and blended.
