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Challenge: Puzzle Macro IV (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Macro
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon MF 105mm f/2.5 AIS
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Feb 19, 2011
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 720
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Feb 19, 2011

 This is a bit of the plastic packaging from a set of two of those energy efficient flourescent bulbs for lamps. Photographed while holding it inside my light's reflector. I have 2 different kinds of flourescent lights in there, thus the orange and blue hued reflections. Looks rather watery for a dry shot, and it certainly doesn't look like what it is.

Handheld with my 36mm and 20mm extension tubes on.

PP - cropped, increased saturation, cloned out a bunch of spots (some dust, some water spots from when I tried to wash the dust off, a hair ... dang static), increased contrast, resized, sharpened with noise reduction, blurred a bit more in the background, added border.

Statistics
Place: 27 out of 158
Avg (all users): 5.8496
Avg (commenters): 6.2105
Avg (participants): 5.7231
Avg (non-participants): 5.9706
Views since voting: 971
Views during voting: 319
Votes: 133
Comments: 26
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 02/28/2011 06:32:46 PM
Hey Spiffy, looks like you and I were the only ones to get this... :) Fun image, I love all the great guesses on this one!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/27/2011 06:23:34 PM
The Valley of Deaf
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 02/27/2011 05:40:03 PM
I have no idea what this is but I love it.
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 02/27/2011 03:44:51 PM
Looks like plastic packaging?
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 02/27/2011 02:53:22 PM
Got no idea...great picture I will add
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 02/26/2011 07:24:32 PM
The button of "never push"?
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 02/26/2011 10:16:43 AM
I'm not good at the guessing part, is this a part of an engine?
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 02/26/2011 09:28:31 AM
Well, I think the blue area is ice, but I have no idea what the object is that it has formed in. I like the shapes and complementary colors.
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 02/26/2011 06:16:40 AM
Awesome abstract. Love the color tones.
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 02/25/2011 05:51:15 PM
Metal parts
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 02/24/2011 06:57:50 PM
Pots
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 02/24/2011 05:38:27 PM
A nice image. No idea what it is.
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 02/24/2011 04:36:01 AM
Interesting but I have no clue, has a metal feel.
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 02/23/2011 04:40:55 PM
Nope, no clue!
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 02/23/2011 04:12:21 PM
some piece of machinery
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 02/23/2011 03:07:08 PM
It looks like it̢۪s made of glass but what, I have no idea. Perhaps a glass figurine?
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 02/23/2011 10:24:07 AM
melting pat of butter
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 02/23/2011 09:38:26 AM
not a clue :)
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 02/23/2011 06:23:54 AM
Guess: Some type of tool (a wrench maybe?)
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 02/22/2011 04:24:49 PM
Looks like those little packets of cranberry sauce.
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 02/21/2011 05:24:12 PM
Stumped me
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 02/21/2011 06:45:25 AM
Glass, some sort of detail on a decorative bottle?
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 02/21/2011 12:26:10 AM
Stumped
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 02/20/2011 08:18:22 PM
I don't know what it is, but I like the way you photographed it.
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 02/20/2011 08:15:00 PM
i like it, i can almost feel the...oiliness? is that oil?
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 02/20/2011 07:49:12 PM
One of the molded nubs that holds closed some blister packages?
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