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King for a Day

             #MacroMondays
 #Berries

King Berry II on his coronation day, Sunday 28 April, 2024. It had been a dramatic day full of intrigues and fights around the throne among the three contenders of the noble house of Rosaceae. The first to be enthroned was the natural Queen of all berries, Lady Fragaria Straw I, only to be dethroned half an hour later by evil Berry Idaeus whose reign was even shorter. True to the everlasting saying "When two berries quarrel, a third rejoices", it was the gentle and wise Berry Rubus who finally ascended the throne. He reigned for one glorious night before he met the same untimely demise as his contenders and was devoured in the early morning hours of 29 April, 2024 by...

...you know who ;) The depiction above follows the order in which I photographed and ate the berries. Three strawberries (of which two didn't even make it near the throne), and two raspberries, unfortunately, were harmed in the making of this photo, and, so far unbeknownst to be, both strawberries (the queen of berries) and raspberries are members of the rose family.

As "throne", I didn't use a fork, but one of the interchangeable "hands" that came with a backscratcher set I only recently bought. I didn't even know there were sets of backscratchers with interchangeable tops but there are. The set came with five different "scratch hands" to satisfy all one's backscratching needs. One of the "hands" even looks like a garden rake for contemplatively making a stone pattern in a zen garden. This is not that farfetched because scratching one's back can be a rather contemplative action  :)

This image is an in-camera focus stack made of 15 images that I combined in Helicon Focus. The bling wasn't intended, I had just forgotten to take the star filter off. I have an un-blingy version of King Berry I but liked blingy Berry II a tad better.

I'm busy today and try to catch up with you tonight!

HMM, Everyone!

Taken on: April 28, 2024

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Camera: Olympus E-M1MarkIII, f/2.8, 1/250 sec, 60mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M1MarkIII
Lens:	OLYMPUS M.60mm F2.8 Macro
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	60mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-1.7 EV
Flash:	On, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.2 (Windows)
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