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Luminata in D

            Activated 7-dehydrocholesterol Capsules :)

It’s a sad measure of the burden of failure in my life that no one has yet described me as ‘handsome’ uncoerced. You’d think I would have had some chance, at least, since I was born light blonde, blue-eyed and pleasantly freckled… 

It was not to be. And my hope is waning… Well. Completely dead, actually.

The best I have managed so far for a description is ‘lovely man’. This has happened in so many independent contexts now that I tend to burst out laughing if someone says it (much to their perplexity!). 

Can you imagine, though,  how galling this would-be accolade is to someone who has striven all their life to be a hysteria-inducing, testosterone-filled, rippling hunk of seductive (to women) allure? 

No. Believe me. You can’t.

I mean, ‘lovely man’ is not quite the same thing is it really? Not by a long shot. Well, let’s be frank, not even by a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile...

But I suppose it could be worse… 

Maybe… perhaps :(

At least I am sure now that my Maker has a well-developed sense of ironic humour... as if I didn’t know that anyway!

But I digress and drag you through the despondent slough of my self-pity.

The point of the preamble, of course, is that fair-complexioned people are genetically adapted to live in the higher latitudes, where their skin needs to produce sufficient Vitamin D in the meagre sun.

I live at latitude 51.683638 North. In North American terms that’s a latitude north of Calgary, about the bottom of Hudson Bay. In the southern hemisphere that would be equivalent to about halfway between Australia’s southern coast and Antarctica. 

Here in winter a decent candle is brighter than the sun most of the day, or so it seems.

Vitamin D is vital to maintaining bones and calcium levels in the body. It’s one of the vitamins that is only soluble in oil and it’s not stored, so we rely on our skins to make it. The lack of pigmentation in the skin maximises the manufacture in weak sunlight.

Or these days in winter we take supplements. 

And in summer we use sunblock :)

So now you know, if you didn’t before, why a lot of Scandinavians are blonde. But it fails miserably, of course, to explain why I was born in the tropics...

This is a picture of Vitamin D capsules in an antique liqueur glass for the Macro Mondays theme “Contained”. I’d often thought the capsules made interesting shapes and light lenses so I wanted give the idea a try.

The bowl of the glass is 50,800 microns wide, so we are within the group’s limits ;) Yey!

PS I have just returned from over three weeks of famliness which, although fun, has meant that I am way behind on everyone’s photostreams. I doubt that I shall be able to do them justice but I hope, at least, to make a few comments here and there.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays :)

[Tripod mount; delayed shutter; manual focus; LED pencil torch lighting from above and behind; black card behind.
Developed in Capture One using levels to take out the background and adjusting the colour to get rid of a green cast and warm it up a bit.
Into Affinity for a bit of retouching.
Sharpened with High Pass/Linear blend.
Added a glow using a Lens Blur filter in Lighten blend mode with reduced opacity to balance the effect. I know this takes off the sharpness but I wanted a bit of fun and I was tired of the everything-must-be-pin-sharp yoke.
Extended the canvas to change the composition a bit, adding more black background; levelled it too as the tripod can’t have been level with the table.]

Taken on: January 6, 2020

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Camera: Nikon Z 6, f/25.0, 1/80 sec, 105mm, ISO 2000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon Z 6
Lens:	Nikon AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Aperture:	f/25.0
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	105mm
ISO:	2000
Exposure Bias:	-2/3 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Capture One 12.1 Windows
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