Unreal


“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it
Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last.
Stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die.
But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”


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Chubskulit Rose said…
Great shot! Mommy Bee seems to enjoy her treat!

Black Bear is my entry for Camera Critters.
Cherry said…
oh, Chuck Palahniuk said it all. so true. great macro Ruthi!
You can be a legacy withonly a thought, thats nice.
betchai said…
oh, your photo of the busy bee is awesome Ruthi, we see clearly how bees pollinate, it's bathing in pollens.
Ebie said…
How closer could you get to capture this bumble bee!

Great macro shot!
Ginny Hartzler said…
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - E.A. Poe.
I love the picture and the quote. And I would have to agree with the quote. Sometimes I have more vivid memories of dreams than real life. And no one can take away our hopes and dreams. This post is very inspirational.
Anonymous said…
What a beautiful close up shot!!!
Kay L. Davies said…
I've been thinking about bees quite a bit lately, because of the bee crisis. Of course, I forget the name. I forget most things. "Colony collapse disorder" (thanks, Wikipedia). Every time we see a bee we should be grateful there are still some around. (I don't mean wasps and hornets.)
Your beautiful bee photo made me think of gratitude for the seemingly small things in life.
Kay
Alberta, Canada
Unknown said…
nicely said and a beautiful picture too.

this is how i did the smoke shot.
in addition to a camera, i also used:
-off camera flash
-incense stick
-black background
-2 pcs of black card
-tripod

my camera settings:

-exposure mode-manual
-shutter speed-1/200
-aperture-f9.5
-ISO-100
-focal length- 48mm

you can see my hardware setup here and the speedlight setup here

note: i think the key here is the 2 pcs of black cardboard that must be
attached to both sides of the speedlight to prevent light from falling on the background, btw the image must be taken in a dark room or at night with no or with minimal light.

>PP: it you just want to change the colour of the smoke, just adjust the hue level.

for the rainbow coloured smoke, on another layer I used the gradient tool with rainbow colour, soft light blending mode, flatten, and inverting the tone image to get the white background.
Joanne Olivieri said…
A macro dream and no truer words spoken.
SquirrelQueen said…
Little honey bees are my favorites. You captured her beautifully right down to the pollen on her legs.

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