Grandmother's Hourglass

The #FlickrFriday theme this week is #LongTimeAgo.  As many of you know, I've done a series on "Time" (using an hourglass) so this one was easy to decide on.  But my wife wasn't letting me take this hourglass up on the mountain for a dozen sunrises — until I got it right.  It belonged to her grandmother.  It really is from a long time ago.  But that left me with the problem of lighting it.

Believe it or not, that's my "office" table, my globe, my curtain and a candle we dug out of the draw.  An antique lamp is in line with the candle on the left so that reflection matches the candle.  It wasn't enough so I turned on the ceiling fan light overhead and hung a white, dress shirt on the hub to act as a diffuser (for all those peeping at the reflection to see).  That's it.  If I keep this up I might have to buy a studio light of some kind. 

Nikon D7200 — Nikon 80-200mm F2.8

112mm

F2.8@1/13th

ISO 400

ROD_9496.JPG (Straight out of the camera, like always.)

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