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old things make me happy - this was taken through a glass jar in an old abandoned house in Pigtown, balt.

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darkmatter says:

this has a wonderful gritty feel. from this close, these could be sutures.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

Dean Forbes says:

great macro and composition. well seen and well captured!
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

b4RuCH1N says:

love it!! great macro!
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

eqqman says:

Love the look and feel to this.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

-Birdy- says:

Cool - great macro effect.
It feels very careworn.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

Epinym says:

The feeling of nostalgia in the photo is wonderful. Nicely captured.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

WadeB says:

Another favorite. Love the compostion and the tones.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

Jacque Cilliers says:

nice tone... very good.
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

_ n a t u r a l _ says:

fantastic macro!
Posted 51 months ago. ( permalink )

Mr. Mark says:

love the texture of that rough dirty hide. wanna get my fingers around it. very nice.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

I feel the blur is somehow "forbidding" (empecher) me to see the texture better. I also find the tones too "yellowish".

-voted as "deleteme" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

uberculture says:

I want to touch it, too. And I like the yellowish tones and the texture being obscured in places.

-voted as "saveme" (from Deleteme! group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

carolyn_in_oregon says:

I wanna touch it too! I think it's a great macro and of a less common object (not a bug or flower to be seen)

saveme2
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

uberculture says:

I can just see a convoy of photographers going over to bukutgirl's house with our hands extended like zombies... "MUST TOUCH... MUST TOUCH"
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Bukutgirl says:

wow - now you got me really laughing - the image of that alone just cracks me up - it would be great - I live on the second storey with a balcony that over looks a bit of a lawn that goes right into an alley...only problem - wouldn't recongnize any of you in person - you'd have to print out your icons and wear them like masks...
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Kiki J says:

Wish you didn't take it thru the glass.
I believe that this kind of shot would really benefit from the texture, and this has none.

-voted as "deleteme" (from Deleteme! group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

The RedLion says:

I disagree with Kiki J, i think this has great texture. In fact before i scrolle through the comments, i was going to say, "great texture, great colour".

-voted as "saveme3" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

soh_phee_ah says:

Love the macro and the feel of this...and I used to live in Baltimore...

saveme4
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Mr. Mark says:

well, glass looks a little like focus blur. Let's pretend.
good rustic feel to this. I already commented above, so
-voted as "saveme5" (from the deleteme group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

suzanne† says:

in large esp, its just too in your face -where I also found the noise unbearable
you barely got the focal point in focus.
too saturated, too burned,
too bad.

-voted as deleteme3 (from Delete me! group
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

OldOnliner says:

Let me get this straight... you shot this through glass and it has not been heavily "processed"? That being the case:

Vote "saveme6" - Deleteme! group
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

akvande says:

i have to say that i'm dying to see what this was like without the glass. i know, it was stuck, but it just doesn't have enough reach-out-and-touch-it for me. too soft.

-voted as "deleteme4" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Nate C says:

I like the color and the composition, but I am just too bothered by the fact that nothing is really in focus here, and I don't think the fact that you shot it though glass should exempt it from that. It's not as if the fact that you shot it through glass is in some way communicated by the photograph itself, so it ends up just being plain blurry.

-voted as "deleteme5" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Charl Durand says:

Too much blur vs focus. Nice object and perspective though.

-voted as "deleteme5" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

B, K & G says:

Great shot. Love the colors and the texture in this. I can practically feel it and smell it here. Thank you.

voted as "Saveme8" (from Deleteme! group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

bastish says:

LIKE: The color, and the grit. I can almost feel it in my hand.

DON'T LIKE: The top right corner (and left to a degree) is the same brightness as the rest, the pixelation is distracting. Maybe if it was a tad darker, to keep me focused on the ball and might give it a bit more depth too.

NOT SURE: Does this tell me any story on it's own? It's nice when in the context of your colors and lines collection (although the mood is a little different than the neon pics), but alone -not sure if I would hang it on my wall unless I was a baseball coach. -and even then it would be surronded by other baseball photos.

So, as a stand alone, I vote deleteme. If it is part of a collection, or has some special context...

-voted as "deleteme6" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Spy to die 4 says:

Love the colors and the composition!
A bit too dark though.
Vote "saveme9" - Deleteme! group
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Tsjeu says:

A blurry snapshot of the stitches in the skull off Otzli. I don't want to touch.

voted as "deleteme7"
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Tim Cummins says:

Definite save, the detail on the stitching, and the texture is great. Good job.

-voted as "saveme10" (from the Delete me! group)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

emster214 says:

AWESOME image. I am in love with it.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Epinym says:

Congratulations on your first photo in The Safe!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

tanguero (BLOCK, rinse, repeat) says:

congrats! :-)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Métempsycose says:

This reminds me of one of those Benetton publicities.. But it's nice to see this on a ball, rather than someone's head... for a change.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

mdt1960 says:

Impossible to improve, perfect indeed.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

grokstreet says:

all great photos provoke something, here it seems to be memories
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

ja cour says:

great closeup. like Mr. Mark and Uberculture, it makes me want to touch it!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

Boston Wolverine says:

Sigh. Not coming at this from a scoring group, but this shot, I love it. Probably because I'm a baseball fan... but to a hardcore (read: insane) baseball fan, every ball, especially an old ball, has stories inherent in its smallest part. It's a word of the language we call baseball, and the stories it writes, if you read the book, are both personal and incredible.

Er.

Nice shot!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

mirsasha says:

lovely lighting and texture
Posted 46 months ago. ( permalink )

Mr Geoff says:

Beautiful light and color! Great details. I have a very similar old baseball shot:

Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

WisDoc says:

This is wonderful - love the textures you captured here and the nostalgice feeling this image gives me - faved!
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

Drew Tedlock says:

This is perfect for the Macro Decay Group: www.flickr.com/groups/macrodecay/

//drew.tedlock
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

A r u n a n says:

Liz, please dont forget to cast your vote for our theme contest :)
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

einarfour says:

Take me out to the ballgame!
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

wolfastra says:

great macro. faved it! ;)
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

cordellia says:

un detalle genial!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Caaarys says:

tis now one of my faves!!
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

IL_Razza says:

Awesome!!!! never seen something like this
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

broadcasterTR says:

Great macro shot, perfect job.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Yanks4Life23519 says:

I love it!
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

NorJon says:

Wow! What a great photo!

Please consider adding this photo to Baseball Unlimited, a group dedicated to all things baseball.
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

iowaboy277 says:

Artistic Baseball, a new Flickr group, would love to include this as one of its initial images.

Artistic Baseball
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

relyn says:

Absolutely amazing! Am in love with this perfect picture of Americana.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

relyn says:

I love this photograph so much that I used it in a mosaic. It’s called Feels Like America. I was trying to capture the essence of July, and your picture was perfect. Thanks so much for allowing people to use your photos on Big Huge Labs. I hope you like the mosaic I made. You can view it here:

www.flickr.com/photos/comesitbymyfire/2619207 887/

Thank you for your wonderful pictures and for sharing them. ~ Relyn
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

Alan_is says:

Great picture!!! Congrats!! I like the colors!! Congrats!
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Yanks4Life23519 says:

I'm a member of The Challenge Factory challenge group!
This is a wonderful shot & I hope you will place this
(or any of your photos) in an open challenge!

*You can't add a shot to the pool until it's won a challenge*,
but that definitely won't be a problem for you!
Hope to see you playing soon!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Seamus Fitzpatrick says:

Very cool. Jumps out at you. NICE!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

manganite says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Manganite's faves!, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

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