Friday 5 April 2013

focus of life–week 14–Up close!

Sally Russick of the studio sublime gave us the prompt this week to explore a macro shot.  Specifically “glimps a world that you may never have noticed until you observed it magnified!” I bought a dSLR at the start of the year and still I have not fully explored and taken the training wheels off  ie, taken it off the auto settings.  I hope to start experimenting with that before we hit the half way point.  This was taken with the auto macro setting.

macro week 14 focus on life

I decided to share this one with you since I love how the noon sun (which I was just about to filter through some vellum) is strong enough to shine through the layers of translucent polymer and actually show a shadow from the bits of copper leaf.  Coooool!

These beads may or may not end up in some of my bead soup pieces.  The reveal, originally scheduled for tomorrow was postponed until next weekend.  More than fine by me since I’m so not done.  Nope the fine details of my partner Cindy Ritchie's gorgeous lampwork has my brain off and running in so many directions.  At this point I have one piece complete (using none of the required elements), one in the basically done stage, three in the partially constructed/mostly conceived stage, and three more in the “this could work” stage.  With more time I figured what a great excuse to go all out and really play.

I had so much fun last week hearing everyone’s stories about rings, hidden and returning, and so on in the comments, thank you for sharing ladies!

As always I look forward to seeing all the up close and well, likely personal, photos at the link up on Sally’s post

19 comments:

  1. I've quit doing the bead soup & most other challenges as there is only so much jewellery that I can wear.. and I refuse to sell things that are made for things like bead soup etc... interesting picture!

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  2. Love your polymer piece, the sun reveals so much!

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  3. stunning photo! you can really see the textures and subtle colours - gorgeous :)

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  4. very, very coooool! can't wait to see your bead soup reveal :)

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  5. What a great photo!! I love the colors and even the subtle textures of the copper leaf. Gorgeous!!!

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  6. The colors are so beautiful ... and so is the shot!

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  7. Beautiful. I too am in the second reveal, but I am finished. But I do so love that clay combo. Great Job.

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  8. Very pretty. Reminds me a bit of pieces of candy.....

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  9. Well if that is your auto macro setting - I think it does great! Such a beautiful shot and I love the copper leaf showing through. Yes, it does look like swirled candy. Very nice!

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  10. Wonderful pic. Your polymer clay work is beautiful.

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  11. Lovely colors and I like the nautilus shell design

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  12. What a great shot of you polymer piece. Love how the copper leaf shows through in the noon day sun.

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  13. That was the very first thing I saw, the speckle of copper in the translucent area of pieces: love your picture. And I can't wait to see your reveal next Saturday!

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  14. Love the little bit of sparkle from the copper leaf, it gives the beads a little bit of texture. I'm in the third reveal of the BSBP, I'll be back next week to see what you've made, can't wait!

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  15. Gorgeous beads and I do love how the copper glitters.

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  16. Swooon...that's a pretty bead!

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  17. Beautiful beads! The colors and swirls and bits of copper are so pretty!

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  18. UMMMM if you are not sure what to do with those beads, I can send you my address!!!

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