Photo Challenge #69 ~ A Delicate Subject {1-31-10}

Duckwaddlequack · 01-31-2010, 07:56 PM

Hello again! Time for a new photo challenge and this week's challenge idea comes from my hubby actually! We got a few inches of snow over the weekend and we were out and about today in it today so I could play around with my camera. He kept pointing out little pieces of delicate looking ice for me. That got me thinking - we haven't tackled the delicate subject matter. By delicate I'm referring to things that are finely detailed, fragile, fine in texture/quality or in their general construction. Get out there now & have fun but be careful not to break anything!

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Here's a very delicate ice crystals.

yellowrose46 · 01-31-2010, 10:03 PM

Wow! Angie, that photo is stunning! I love the detail on the delicate frost! I'm not sure I can get such a good detail with my point and shoot camera, but I'll give it a try!

Cook22 · 02-01-2010, 02:43 AM

Too late for me to use snowy photos for this - ours is long gone - but aren't they fun!
I think I have an idea for this one that doesn't involve snow.

rdoak03 · 02-01-2010, 04:27 AM

Fun challenge!

Cook22 · 02-01-2010, 05:10 AM

I'm not usually so quick off the mark, but it's my only day off this week, so I took advantage of a bright morning.
The embroidery is a detail from the border of a sleeve on an old silk robe. I don't know if it's Japanese or Chinese, although I think Chinese. It's very old, and falling apart. To give you an idea of size, the part I took the photo of is just 3" wide, by about 5" high. I think it qualifies as detailed, fragile and fine!!
(You can see some of the plainer embroidery on the robe featured on this card - I Flew Cathay Pacific)
The other picture is one of our little robins, the tamer one. I think his feathers count as finely detailed

. I like this picture I snapped this morning as he peeked out from behind a tub to see if it was safe to come for his next worm.

3 Little Love Bugs · 02-01-2010, 06:47 AM

Great challenge! Angie, your ice crystals are stunning, amazing detail!

Sabrina, the fabric is so soft looking, I also love the detail in it. Your robin is so sweet, he looks very soft too!

c-mouse · 02-01-2010, 04:59 PM

Love that robin....have had two around the feeder this weekend and they must have wintered over as we usually don't see robins again until March.

craftygirl04 · 02-03-2010, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by c-mouse

Love that robin....have had two around the feeder this weekend and they must have wintered over as we usually don't see robins again until March.

Hey Pansy,
We have a place that we go on winter hikes here, in South Western Ontario and there are tons of robins there all winter long. The robin is no longer a first sign of spring.

rdoak03 · 02-07-2010, 11:42 AM

Decorative grass in front of my house.

AGMommyof2 · 02-08-2010, 09:39 AM

I'm new ~ just got the Canon T1i ~ still trying to learn. My daughters told me I had to get a pic of the following icicle ~ The light gave it a golden glow...

armadillo · 02-08-2010, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by AGMommyof2

I'm new ~ just got the Canon T1i ~ still trying to learn. My daughters told me I had to get a pic of the following icicle ~ The light gave it a golden glow...

That is one strange icicle!

cletracloversgirl · 02-18-2010, 03:50 PM

here is an ice cycle...not quite as cool as Monika's, but I love it none the less....

armadillo · 02-18-2010, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by cletracloversgirl

here is an ice cycle...not quite as cool as Monika's, but I love it none the less....

Neat icicle, sort of looks like a skinny/skeletal hand!

Cook22 · 02-19-2010, 12:09 AM

It does look like a hand!!!

Proud Mom · 03-20-2010, 05:56 AM

There are so many delicate things in Dale Chihuly's Glass gallery.

Here are a few of my favorite pieces. More on my BLOG today.

yellowrose46 · 03-21-2010, 10:12 AM

Unbelievable, Pam! I can't believe that second photo is glass!

Proud Mom · 03-22-2010, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by yellowrose46

Unbelievable, Pam! I can't believe that second photo is glass!

I KNOW! Isn't it amazing? And that second piece is probably 15 feet tall and 5 feet in diameter at the bottom.

Cook22 · 03-24-2010, 12:18 AM

Oh wow!! I still remember an amazing glass sculpture exhibition in the Botanic Gardens here way back, but these are just stunning. I love that first one.