Rare Indeed
Rare Indeed
The photo prompt from The Daily Post this week is Rare. One of the vendors at this past art show has lots of vintage, and rare stuff. I was completely fascinated by these micro mosaics. This particular one was my favorite. This little frame is only about 1 1/2 inches high, so you can see how small the glass pieces are on this. He actually had some pieces that were even smaller. They were created in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, and to do that kind of teeny, tiny work without good lighting must have been so hard.
The same guy had a whole bunch of old bottle caps that have never been put on a bottle. I haven’t heard of most of these.
And Custer’s weird antler tine must be pretty rare in the moose world. I’ve never seen one like it.
And a bit of news…..I submitted this photo to the Outdoor Photography Magazine website. They select a photo from the many that get added daily, to be the photo of the day, and it was chosen for Mondays photo.
So that’s pretty cool I thought.
Paws crossed they choose your photo for the photo of the day. The bottle caps are pretty neat. The only one Mom recognizes is the Hires Root Beer.
I was surprised, and excited to have it chosen. Hires was the only one I knew too.
Beautiful photos and nice story behind the images.
Thank you.
Oh I hope so much that this photo becomes the photo of the day … it’s super great!
It was the photo of the day, I was pretty honored to be chosen.
Congratulations on having your beautiful photo chosen!
Hello, I love your moose and the road shot. Both are favorites for me! Congrats! Happy Tuesday!
Your photos are always my photos of the day — they continually brighten my morning and open the day up with smile and wonder and awe.
Congratulations!
Thanks so much, what a wonderful compliment that is.
Great photos! That road shot is so “real” that it almost gives me motion sickness. :-)
Lol I guess that’s good.
How exciting and congratulations! I’m not surprised though, your photos are amazing. That ribbon of road and the scenery is incredible – you got just the right angle on it. I love Custer and his rare little mini-antler – maybe he’s so old that his regular antlers just can’t get any bigger, so a new one started shooting out LOL. I love that micromosaic frame, I’ve seen lots of micromosaic work in antique jewelry and frames, and it always amazes me how they did that back then. Also the incredibly difficult caviar beaded purses with elaborate scenes are mindboggling. I know some of them did lose their eyesight from all that close work in poor light, and many suffered physical pains as well. But the work they left behind is truly awesome.
You would have loved these pieces the vendor had. Some were so so tiny. I can only imagine they lost their eye sight.
Why yes, that is pretty cool! Love the broken ribbon of road through the amazing landscape!
Thank you!
Oh I LOVE that they chose the road photo !!! I think that is beyond cool! Congratulations! I love the mosaic too…as for the bottle caps, I HAVE heard of “Hires” Root Beer!!
Congrats on having your photo selected! That tiny frame is really cool! Some of those soda names are funny….. Diet Cheerwine??
Ah, grape NeHi! Radar O’Reilly’s favorite drink. I remember it from childhood, but was never a big fan myself.
That is very cool – congrats!
I only recognized the names on about three of those caps!
Hi, just surfed in and very happy I did. Loving your blog and all these cool photos.
Thanks so much for stopping by! I’m glad you like it here, and will hang around some more.