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A weathering stone among experienced stones

By Bes Zain on September 4, 2006 in Observations Comment

A weathering stone among experienced stones

A closeup of a stone that’s weathering slowing among other experienced, and already weathered, stones. This was taken on August 30th of this year, 2006, in Irvine, California.

With more and more housing communities planting plastic trees and not favoring having nature nearby, most houses are resorting to plastic decoration, or stones from the beach or stores to have something in or around the house that’s not manufactured by humans in factories.

As is the case lately, you can see strands and strings of different particles in the picture. Some of it should be dog hair.

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Closeup of a speaker decoration

By Bes Zain on September 1, 2006 in Observations Comment

Closeup of a speaker decoration

A closeup of the decoration on a speaker. Picture taken on August 28th of this year, 2006, in Irvine, California

This speaker is the left side speaker of a Sharper Image Sleek 3-CD Stereo. The entire stereo system is a beautiful design, and these small decoration holders right in front of the speaker woofers are a nice touch to the whole system. I wanted to take picture of a colorful cd inside the stereo, as you can see the cd spinning round very nicely whenever a cd is playing. However, I didn’t have any colorful cd with me, so I decided to take this picture instead.

The black thing on the back mirror-type surface is the reflection of the lens of the camera. As is the case with some pictures that I’ve been taking lately, you can see a few strands of dust and other particles.

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A closeup of the spiral design of a spiral bulb

By Bes Zain on August 31, 2006 in Observations 1 Comment

A closeup of the spiral design of a spiral bulb

A closeup of the spiral design of a spiral bulb. This was taken on June 24th of this year, 2006 in Anaheim, California.

I took a series of pictures that day of a single bulb fitted in a ceiling frame, with the bulb both turned on and off. The frame appears to a bit off in this picture, though it does capture the beauty of the light and design itself, including the strands of dust on the bulb. The bulb turned on produced better pictures than when it was off, probably because the camera could focus on the light close to its lend more easily than it could from the light it would catch all around the place had the bulb not been emitting such a bright light.

You can see many strands of dust and other particles on the bulb; these things are not visible without looking this close at bulbs. Try this at your home also; may be pleased with what you find.

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Portrait of a yellow-2-red flower

By Bes Zain on August 29, 2006 in Observations Comment

Portrait of a yellow-2-red flower

A picture of a flower that has parts which change color as they grow, from red to yellow. This picture was taken in the garden on August 25th of this year, 2006, in Anaheim, California.

This flower lies close to the other one shown in “Closeup of stigmas of a flower.” I called this flower a “yellow-2-red flower” as I do not know the name of this flower, and that name is the only way to distinguish it from the other names of other flowers that I can think of at this moment. If you know the name of this flower, please let me know and I’ll give you credit. There were many of these flowers close to each other, and they were all a bit above the ground, stemming out of the regular bushes that you see in the background.

This was taken using a macro-lens. You can see two strings of a spider web near the top right yellow part of the flower, crossing each other in such a way that they can also appear to be the same as the letter “Y.”

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