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They must be

BY: @fotostef | CREATED: April 27, 2026, 11:06 a.m. | VOTES: 576 | PAYOUT: $18.67 | [ VOTE ]

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What does it take to make a bunch of new pictures?

I had light coming in from the window.

I had a camera charged and ready, with a macro lens attached.

I had an itchy feeling on the tip of my finger,
the one that goes away only when you press the shutter.

I had everything but an excuse.

What to shoot for no apparent reason?

Just for the sake of it?

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And then I saw it!

A bouquet of dried flowers.

Not dead, just lifeless.

Still colourful, still elegant, still lovely.

And I started shooting.

Someone said that macro lenses are portals.

They must be.

How else could I have found myself
in such a delicate and elusive world?

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I haven't been around here much lately. It has happened before. It may happen again. For now I try to keep in touch as much as I can. The truth is that hive looks a bit empty lately. I am struggling to find what to vote. Maybe I am too many years here and the people I used to follow are not active any more. I guess some new creators are coming along but I haven't had the time to connect with any of them.

I took those pictures the other day in our workshop. We have already share some of them in our Instagram account and I may also use them in my substack that I started recently.

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The camera that I used is a Canon EOS 6D mark II with an EF 100mm f2.8/L macro lens attached. I edited the photographs in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic.

All the pictures and the words are mine.

Thank you for reading and if you want to know more about me you can check out my introduction post.

Commenting, upvoting and rebloging are highly appreciated!

TAGS: [ #photofeed ] [ #life ] [ #photo ] [ #photography ] [ #creativecoin ] [ #neoxian ]

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@qurator | April 27, 2026, 11:48 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Manually curated by the @qurator Team. Keep up the good work!

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@fotostef | April 27, 2026, 12:59 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thank you very much @qurator and @scrooger for your support!

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@jlinaresp | April 27, 2026, 4:05 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

!discovery shots
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Magical photos, natural chromatic postcards!

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@fotostef | April 27, 2026, 4:22 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks a lot :)

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@gabrielatravels | April 28, 2026, 4:19 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

You can never go wrong with Macro shots. They always seem so interesting no matter what is in the spotlight :)

@fotostef | April 28, 2026, 12:17 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Macro is a different world on its own!

Thank you for stopping by :)

@porqpin | April 28, 2026, 5:54 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

I love macro shots because it makes me know that there is nothing that I cannot photograph. I got to know about it in some post sometimes ago.

Thanks for sharing

@fotostef | April 28, 2026, 12:18 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thank you for stopping by!

Macro is a wonderful way to capture reality indeed :)

@femelyn.blog | April 28, 2026, 1 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

They're beautiful.Dried flowers become alive on this pictures.

@fotostef | April 28, 2026, 5:40 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thanks a lot, I am glad you like them!

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