Droplet Fascination

The Possible's slow fuse is lit

By the Imagination.

~Emily Dickinson

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Bubbles for Macro Monday

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
~ Gail Sheehy

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Snowflake Macro - Macro Monday

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

~Edward R. Murrow

Image made 02-19-12. I sat in my car for over an hour trying to capture the snowflakes that fell on my windshield. Taken with my iPhone and Olloclip Macro lens.

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Butterfly Close-up for Macro Monday

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

― David Steindl-Rast

About the image: This image was taken in August of 2009.

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Reflections in a Droplet

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

― Jim Henson

Do you find that you put limitations on yourself? I struggle with that on a daily basis - so when I saw this quote it really spoke to me!

About the image: Taken with my iPhone and Olloclip Macro lens - 02-05-12

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Backlit Butterfly - Macro Monday

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

~Henry David Thoreau

About the Image: Taken on the morning of 06-05-11 - Gateway Trail - Blacksburg Virginia

I don't know the ID on this little guy.

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Snowflake Macro with the Olloclip

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

~Zen

My very first snowflake macro - captured with the Olloclip lens for my iPhone.

The more I use it - the more I LOVE it!

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Dandelion Droplets With an Olloclip - Macro Monday

Above straight out of the camera (iPhone) - no editing

Straight Out of the Camera but cropped closer.

Early last week I stumbled across some amazing MACRO shots on Instagram and was AMAZED at how fabulous they looked. I soon found out that most were using a lens designed specifically for the iPhone called the Olloclip. They are sold at Best Buy and even on the Apple website but were back ordered. That told me that this was something to check out! I went direct to the Olloclip webiste. Ordered it on January 3, it shipped January 4, and I had it on January 6. Pretty quick service! The above shots were taken with my iPhone with the Olloclip. If you love taking pics with your iPhone and love Macro, I encourage you to check out their website HERE. The lens is actually a wide angle, fisheye, and macro all in one!

Olloclip did NOT ask me to write this review - I just wanted to let you know what a great product it is!

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PS - not sure what the little creature is in the pics - maybe an aphid? It was TINY - I couldn't even see it when I was taking the shots.

Hover Fly Macro

Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.

~ Erich Fromm

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A Pooped Pooch for Macro Monday

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
~Henry Van Dyke
Roxy, my sister's dog, resting after the festivities.

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Hearts in Nature - Frosted Heart

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving

About the image: Seen during a morning walk 12-03-11 - Izaak Walton Park

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Wispy Dandelion - Macro Monday

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

About the Image: Dandelion Pappus - 12-03-11 Izaak Walton Park - Christiansburg, VA

I didn't know what the little "wispy" part of the dandelion was called. I looked it up and Wikipedia tells me that it is called a Pappus (Pappi would be the plural).

"feathery bristles of the pappus function as a "parachute" which enables the seed to be carried by the wind" I LOVE learning new things!

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Shades of Green - Delicate Wings - Macro Monday

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad.
~ Jennifer Garner
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Joy in Bloom

Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.

~Author Unknown

About the image: Taken 09-24-11. I do not know the name of this flower.

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Macro Monday - At the Top

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

~ Henry Miller

About the Image: Taken 05-11-11 - I had quite a fascination with ants over the summer. They move so fast it's hard to get them in focus.

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Droplets on The Stamen - Macro Monday

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

About the image: Taken 05-11-11 - Rhododendron in my front yard.

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Locust Borer Beetle - Macro Monday

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

~ Robert H Schuller

This is a Lifer Bug for me - the first one I've even seen. I find him quite unique - and - beautiful in his own special way. He was crawling in the Goldenrod and blends in quite well.

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Butterfly Chrysalis - Macro Monday

Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments of happiness you're waiting for don't pass you by.

~Unknown

What a thrilling find! Seen on my walk 09-24-11 - Gateway Trail - Blacksburg, VA

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Ladybug with a Smile - Macro Monday

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range! ~Tom Wilson

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Macro Monday - Emergence

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. ~Ruth Bernhard

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