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Collection: Black & White
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L Macro USM
Location: My home
Date: Oct 13, 2008
Galleries: Abstract, Macro
Date Uploaded: Oct 13, 2008

Viewed: 837
Comments: 8
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 I brought a small new jungle plant that thrives in the Amazon, that look like a thin grass plant with tiny seed pods.

It is in a clear square cube shape glass container with soil. The glass square container is about 10cmx10cm, and the area in the image here is about 5cmx5cm in size.

It has a gap of about 1 cm of space, between the plant and the edges of the glass container, with the plant inside, and is filled with these amazing round clear gel-like orbs, or gel-balls. The orbs are about the size of a small pea.

I was hooked, and just had to take some macros of the amazing detail and patterns, one can see in these tiny fragile clear gel-balls, on all four sides of the glass container.

One can touch them, and they are squishy and soft and reflect some color as well. They are used as water crystals, and I have never seen any like these before.

They remind me of tadpole eggs, or plastic bubble wrap.....



Enjoy.....

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Apple iPhone 7
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM
 11/03/2008 09:44:50 AM
Cool abstract. I don't know if it is possibly, but if you could get them reflect different colors (like the blue and yellow near the bottom third) throughout, that would make for a wildly colorful abstract.
Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 16-35 f/4 ED VR
 10/26/2008 07:11:52 AM
Nice abstract - I like all the detail and subtle colours that can be seen in the image.
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
 10/14/2008 05:33:21 PM
What a great find and nicely presented! I like how they are all similar yet each one appears slightly unique.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 10/14/2008 11:58:02 AM
Now, that's what I call 'filling the frame' :)
Very well presented.
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Nikon Z9
Nikon NIKKOR Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S
 10/13/2008 06:18:55 PM
Shez, this is really neat. I at first thought they were bubbles until I opened it up and read the description.
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Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS USM
10/13/2008 06:17:03 PM
Wonderful abstract. It's just nice to look at all the details here. And (you're a master in that) a very nice triptych.
Perhaps a non-square crop here would make it even more interesting, but I'm not sure about that.
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 II
 10/13/2008 05:21:09 AM
Thats a fantastic shot. On the thumb my immediate reaction was tadpole eggs : )
I love the different colour reflections running through them. Nice one!!
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Canon EOS-6D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 10/13/2008 05:07:24 AM
Wow - great eye, Shez! I like your triptych presentation a lot also.
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