Close-Up or Macro – Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography

2025 CFFC: 14 July — Up Close

Also Posting for Judy’s Numbers Game #81-203

Dan Antion from No Facilities blog host’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week he is continuing with his Perspective Challenges. This week is from a perspective of Up Close. This week I am combining CFFC with the Numbers Game using the Theme of Up Close.

Here are my Up Close photos I’ve pulled together for this week’s challenges.

Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)-Up Close

Judy’s Numbers Game #81-203

To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title. This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments.

Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i and Various Apple iPhones

God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Monochrome Monday: 14 April (on 15)

Monochrome Monday

Monday Monochrome

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Telephoto Camera

Location: On the Bank of the South Fork Catawba River; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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2024 CMMC: April – Close up or Macro

***Calendula officinalis L.***
***Marigold***

***Bunias orientalis***,
**Warty-cabbage**

***Helleborus viridis,***
***AKA Green Hellebore***

***Euonymus japonicus***
***‘Aureo-Marginata’***

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-April Close Up or Macro

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens

Location: 1-4) The Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA; 5)Dairy Barn Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2024 CMMC: Close Up or Macro

Let’s talk turkey, nah let me show you more green. This time a close-up view of green plants in the Farm Garden at The Schiele Museum.

Here’s a look at my contributions for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge of Close Up or Macro.

***Verbascum thapsus***
***Common Mullein***

Sedum Coccinea
AKA Stonecrop
***or Dragon’s Blood***

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm and Canon EF-S55-250mm lenses.

Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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2023 CMMC: Close Up or Macro

My entries this week for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge we’re all taken when Coleman and I went hiking at one of his favorite places, Anne Springs Close Greenway.

Muhlenbergia capillaris
(Hair-awn or Pink Muhly)

***The Gulf fritillary***
***or passion butterfly***
***(Dione vanillae)***
***on Zinnias***

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250 mm lens.

Location: Horse Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA.

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2023 CMMC: September Macro or close up_Diodia virginiana

Diodia virginiana
common name
***Virginia buttonweed***

***Black & White***
***Virginia buttonweed***

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-September Macro or Close Up

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Floral Friday

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max f/1.8 • 1/303 • 6.86mm • ISO64

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

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2023 Monday Portrait: COWabunga

***Cow***
at
***The Schiele Museum***
***of Natural History***
***Gastonia, North Carolina***

Monday Portrait -COWabunga

Photo Credit: 2023 Deb L. Waters

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina

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Macro Monday: Trifolium pratense

***Trifolium pratense,***
***red clover,***
***is a herbaceous species***
***of flowering plant***
***in the bean family Fabaceae,***
***native to Europe, Western Asia,***
***and northwest Africa,***
***but planted and naturalized***
***in many other regions.***

Interesting Facts:

Red clover is a good pollen and nectar source for bumblebees.

Red clover’s flowers and leaves are edible, and can be added as garnishes to any dish.They can be ground into a flour.

The flowers often are used to make jelly and tisanes, and are used in essiac recipes. Their essential oil may be extracted and its unique scent used in aromatherapy.

It is widely grown as a fodder crop, valued for its nitrogen fixation, which increases soil fertility. For these reasons, it is used as a green manure crop.

Macro Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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2023 CMMC: June – Close Up or Macro

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters

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2023 Wordless Wednesday: May 31st_Loving Hugs

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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Floral Friday: 2023 May 26_Coneflower

***Echinacea purpurea***
***(Eastern purple coneflower)***

Echinacea purpurea is recognisable by its purple cone-shaped flowers. It is native to eastern North America and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern, southeastern and midwest United States. It is often known as the purple coneflower.

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Horse Stables Entrance, Anne Springs Close Greenway

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CMMC: 2023 May – Close Up or Macro_Bobwhite Quail

***The Northern Bobwhite Quail***
***AKA Virginia quail***

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

Macro Monday

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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CMMC: Macro or Close-Up_Japanese Camellia

***Camellia japonica***
***‘Moire Variegata’***

These were take at Glencairn Gardens in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Most of the plants and flowers are not in bloom. It appeared as if the had been trimmed way down for winter. Best time to visit the Gardens is in the springtime.

The next entry isn’t a flower and is added just for kicks. The photo was taken with my iPhone by my three year old grandson. All other photos were taken by me with my Canon Rebel EOS T3i.