Showing posts with label nail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nail. Show all posts

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Hoboken Studio Tour/Tiny Lab: Diamonds, Tough as Nails



The diamond above was on the ring of a visitor to my Tiny Lab exhibit in the Hoboken Studio Tour. It is an antique and supposedly some kind of special cut. Being that I'm not a gemologist (if that's a word) I have no way of knowing just how special the cut is.

I do, however, find the diamond very beautiful, and am fascinated by the facets and patterns created by them. Amazing.

Below is a square nailhead in the floor. It's been ground down by floor refinishing. Lucky for us, that makes an interesting pattern of scuffs that refract and scatter light into little prismatic rainbows.


Send me your suggestions for something tiny that you'd like to see big.


Saturday, June 13, 2009

Hardware Day!



Today, I shot some hardware. You can see some optical distortion in the photo below, as the screw threads seem to bend inward the further they get from the center of my lens. This is an artifact of my janky stack of lenses, and would not be present were I using a far better lens.



Below, not suspension bridge cable, rather the frayed end of thin-gauge picture hanging wire.




Send me your suggestions for something tiny that you'd like to see big.


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