Magnification

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Family tour of the farm, feeding cows, admiring the dogs exploring abandoned machinery piles.

Bearded dragon sunning on derelict machinery at the farm. Didn’t like me getting so close and scarpered. #lizard #reptile #reptiles #beardeddragon

A photo posted by @liatach on Apr 13, 2016 at 9:49pm PDT

#Orbweavers on their webs at the farm. Diminutive male at bottom right was sharing the #web of the bottom centre #spider roughly 1/5 the size. Largest was maybe 45mm in the body. Which is pretty small for this species. #arthropod #arthropodsanonymous #macro #aranae

A photo posted by @liatach on Apr 13, 2016 at 9:45pm PDT

Projects

Had an hour or two to build in this afternoon and knocked up a frame for my biggest Fresnel lens  Hoping to have a stand made tomorrow to test it with. The previous lens of this type I found didn’t have a tight round focal point and although I still own it it is unsuitable for my purposes. This one appears to have a round focal point. None I have yet found has the clarity I have seen others find online. though it is not as clear as I would like it to be. Again while making this I was practicing taking a shot for every single step of the process, right up until I forgot and did three or four things in quick succession without thinking. I think I need to film rather than photograph builds.  Stand and test run tomorrow. If I’m lucky this baby aught to be able to produce temperatures in excess of 1000ºC at focal point. 

Painting again tonight. Decided I’ll push on with colouring even though principal line work is not 100%. It is easy enough to add detail layers over the top.  Progress:

 

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It takes him six minutes to get to the point but dammit if he doesn’t make it very well when he gets to it. I find FriendlyJordies caricatures strained but occasionally funny. As I understand it he lives in PM Turnbull’s own electorate so he has plenty of reasons to be angry.