One of the treasures I found on the beach. I left most of them where they were, only a few came home with me. Such restraint!

Taken at Himatangi Beach, Manawatu, New Zealand.

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My second fav shot for this weeks (9-Apr-2018) Macro Mondays 'Circles' theme - anything round or circular. Hard choice, but I put the green bottle one up in the end.

[Taken with my Helios 44M lens, using an extension tube]

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This is the cracked egg floating (yes, they were that old) inside the beautiful blue bowl, with a brandy class at the bottom.

Taken at night in the kitchen sink, filled with water. The light from the stainless-steel through the bowl looked great.

*Some of my other shots from The Great Egg Photoshoot

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I went out tonight to get a photo for the Smile on Saturday group - the theme for 20-Jan-2018 is 'light-opia' (artificial lighting).

I took a few shots of a sports club that has some brightly coloured murals lit up at night, so nothing natural about this at all. It's the same place where I thought I'd first 'discovered' light painting, back in 2014 (chuckle!).

I hope you're all having a happy weekend :-D

Edit: So lucky this was in Explore [20-Jan-2018]. Started at #8 !!! and ended at #15 :-D

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Think I got everything in here ;-)

Mount Taranaki is visible on the horizon between 2 of the people.

None of the silhouettes were related to me.

Taken on Himatangi beach, NZ.

>> Here are more of my beach pics on flickr :-)

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