Mobi365 Wotanicus' Project 365 - 2021

[Geek1956]

August 29 - Agricultural abstraction

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Love those bnw detail shots

 

[Starzee]

Farmageddon was a good expression Just as the soda bottles, candy packs etc the farm machines have become extremely oversized. Now the biggest ones are almost to wide for the road. Doesn’t seem very practical. The tractors from my childhood look like toys compared to the modern monsters. Nice pics all of them

I live in farm country. There are fewer farmers these days and the kids aren’t sticking around to help and eventually take over the farms like they used to. At the same time the demand for food continues to rise. Bigger machinery allows the farmers to harvest more, quicker. I can’t speak for the whole world but the farmers around here are still working from sunup to sundown.

 

[ubbyisis]

I live in farm country. There are fewer farmers these days and the kids aren’t sticking around to help and eventually take over the farms like they used to. At the same time the demand for food continues to rise. Bigger machinery allows the farmers to harvest more, quicker. I can’t speak for the whole world but the farmers around here are still working from sunup to sundown.

We too live in farm country. What I meant was why buy a machine that doesn’t fit on the road they need to use daily

 

[ImageArt]

August 29 2021 - Well, roused at stupid o clock on a foggy sunday morning, I thought I would take advantage of the tractor convention taking place behind my gaff, as the farmer prepares to gather the leek crop.
A mix of Fimo with Morandi and Argentum to capture the sheer size and physicality of the big John Deere.

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This reminds me of the Jeremy Clarkson’s series. If in doubt, just buy another machine to do it preferably a Lamborghini.

 

[rizole]

the scopes were just too heavy and the phone too small to hold in place without a support.

I've found sticking the phone to the binocular eyepeice with bluetac is quite effective.

 

[WOTANICUS]

August 30 2021 - Making sure I get at least one shot in for the diary.

A Pholcid spider tucked away in a corner, as a subject to try out Blackie camera, an contender for Argentum's top spot.

 

[WOTANICUS]

August 30 - not much wildlife about this morning, but Blackie caught a tiny caterpillar hanging from my Birch tree.

 

[WOTANICUS]

August 31 2021 - lacking any kind of inspiration or real motivation today, I just took a couple of simple architectural abstracts witj Blackie. Hopefully something more attractive will present itself as the day wears on.

 

[WOTANICUS]

August 31 - Did some model photography last night with native cam and Portrait mode, to catalogue some Lego parts. Doing a bit of post processing on them today, its surprising how much dust and dirt appears in the final image!

 

[ubbyisis]

August 31 2021 - lacking any kind of inspiration or real motivation today, I just took a couple of simple architectural abstracts witj Blackie. Hopefully something more attractive will present itself as the day wears on.

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I had the same problem this morning, but then I found a dead snake on my walk. I’ll post that if nothing more interesting shows uo.

 

[WOTANICUS]

I had the same problem this morning, but then I found a dead snake on my walk. I’ll post that if nothing more interesting shows uo.

Thats quite an unusual find, sounds ideal.

 

[WOTANICUS]

August 31 - the latest gizmo, a telescope to mobile phone adaptor.

Naff results with a pair of field binoculars. Hoping it will be useful to hold 49" filters in front of the phone. Damned fiddly to adjust though.

 

[ImageArt]

August 31 - the latest gizmo, a telescope to mobile phone adaptor.

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Naff results with a pair of field binoculars. Hoping it will be useful to hold 49" filters in front of the phone. Damned fiddly to adjust though.

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Drat, Bill, you keep on buying stuff that I bought jonks ago and never used. Now I’m gonna have to pull out mine and have a go.

Actually I bought two of these with another bit of gizmo so that I could ‘stabilise’ both lenses of the binoculars on a tripod. Now if I can only find all the pieces……

 

[dscheff]

August 29 2021 - Well, roused at stupid o clock on a foggy sunday morning, I thought I would take advantage of the tractor convention taking place behind my gaff, as the farmer prepares to gather the leek crop.
A mix of Fimo with Morandi and Argentum to capture the sheer size and physicality of the big John Deere.

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That looks like something Jeremy Clarkson would buy

 

[Starzee]

August 31 - the latest gizmo, a telescope to mobile phone adaptor.

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Naff results with a pair of field binoculars. Hoping it will be useful to hold 49" filters in front of the phone. Damned fiddly to adjust though.

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I bought an adapter for my spotting scope. Never could get it quite right, bought a new iphone, didn’t fit the adapter……yada, yada, yada.

 

[WOTANICUS]

That looks like something Jeremy Clarkson would buy

"How hard can it be?"

 

[WOTANICUS]

I bought an adapter for my spotting scope. Never could get it quite right, bought a new iphone, didn’t fit the adapter……yada, yada, yada.

Well I got off to a rubbish start, my big bioculars were already damaged, so no joy there and then I managed to snap my small telescope mount. Still, it was only £6 so can't grumble. It'll cost me more in superglue to fix everything else!

 

[WOTANICUS]

September 1 2021 - So here we are, a month in already. Seems like I have been doing the Mobitog thing for ages. I have been upgraded to 'Mobipassionata', which I quite like, I wonder if there's a 'Mobiobsessive' label to come?

 

[WOTANICUS]

September 1 2021 - a grey autumnal day, slim pickings today I expect. Fungiwatch revealed what seems to be a large toadstool masquerading as a bracket fungus. An ideal candidate for Fimo and two indecisive pigeons on the roof for Argentum.

 

[WOTANICUS]

The Copper Beech opposite the giant Chestnut at the front of campus. Fimo LM Colour

 

[WOTANICUS]

September 1 - Fimo Unicolour shots

 

[ImageArt]

September 1 2021 - So here we are, a month in already. Seems like I have been doing the Mobitog thing for ages. I have been upgraded to 'Mobipassionata', which I quite like, I wonder if there's a 'Mobiobsessive' label to come?

I can’t believe you have only been around for a month. I’m surprised your label hasn’t come up as MobiPartofTheFurniture.

 

[WOTANICUS]

September 1 2021 - Evening stroll with the hounds around the manor.

 

[WOTANICUS]

September 1 - a little local colour.

Fimo Unicolour

Fimo LM Colour

 

[WOTANICUS]

September 2 - First Nations art taken with Fimo.