Last week, I had a lot of fun participating in @kalemandra's photography #colorchallenge using one of my favorite subjects for macro photography: Beach glass my wife and I have found while walking around on our local beaches, in the course of the past 10 years.
I was looking through some of my glass found earlier this year, and these pieces really stood out as YELLOW!
Close-up of a selection of bright yellow beach glass
For Wednesday's entry, I shot a closeup of them-- even though these pieces are actually quite small (about 1/2" or 12-13mm) they come across as much larger and seem to remind a lot of people of wine gum candies.
Some beach combers may be aware that yellow is an extremely rare color to find when it comes to beach glass-- it was not used for commercial glass, so most pieces come from things like automotive turn signals (back when they were made of glass!), the glass lenses on road works lamps, and the like.
Camera used: Fuji Finepix HS20 EXR, macro setting, 100mm equivalent; shot in natural daylight.
I also suggest checking out the supporting @colorchallenge page! There, you will also find explanatory posts about the challenge at more length, as well as a number of resteems of entries.
How about YOU? Are you a beach comber? Have you ever found bright yellow sea glass while visiting the sea side? If yes, did you wonder where it came from? Leave a comment!
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Posted 20170628 oo:29PDT