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Challenge: Puzzle Macro V (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-60D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di SP AF/MF 1:1 Macro Lens
Date: Jun 28, 2015
Date Uploaded: Jun 28, 2015

 Curious to see what the guesses are for this. It is a raspberry shot on a piece of watermelon rind. I hadn't planned on shifting hues, but when I did I thought it looked like a virus so I had my title and decided to keep it.

[Jul. 5th, 2015 03:31:12 PM]

A number of you guessed it correctly but props to [user]fngood83[/user] for not only guessing the object but also the lighting technique.

My favorite guess was by [user]flaherma[/user] who hoped it wasn't something we eat.

It is a raspberry sitting on a piece of watermelon rind. I but a small hole in the rind, placed the berry over the hole and place a flash underneath the rind.

Statistics
Place: 5 out of 173
Avg (all users): 6.5714
Avg (commenters): 6.5294
Avg (participants): 6.5000
Avg (non-participants): 6.7500
Views since voting: 1273
Views during voting: 180
Votes: 84
Comments: 34
Favorites: 0

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 07/10/2015 08:04:18 AM
Excellent work, congratulations on your HM.
 07/06/2015 07:45:27 PM
Well done Mark! Love seeing your image do well. It deserved it.
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 07/06/2015 05:39:30 PM
Great shot, though it's kind of big and complex to be a virus. Now if you'd "stained" it purple it would look a lot like a colony of Gram-positive cocci, such as Staphylococcus aureus, which tends to look (microscopically) like "a cluster of grapes".
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 07/06/2015 02:27:51 PM
Very clever, Mark. Congrats on the HM. Go Hit Squad.
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 07/06/2015 12:59:19 PM
Congrats Mark!! Really creative take on the challenge! Grats on the HM, go Hit Squad!!
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 07/06/2015 08:22:00 AM
what a great effect! Grats on the HM
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 07/06/2015 08:08:52 AM
Congrats Mark, I knew this would do well. Go Team.
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 07/06/2015 05:20:43 AM
Congratulations, Mark!! Nicely done.
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 07/06/2015 03:54:31 AM
Absolutely LOVED this image. Congrats on the HM.
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 07/06/2015 03:02:38 AM
I couldn't sleep last night, among other things, was thinking about this shot and then it came to me that it was probably a raspberry - ha! Great shot, and yep, I do love raspberries, even now :) Congrats on the HM
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 07/06/2015 03:01:20 AM
STILL love this one! Congrats on front page!

HIT SQUAD!
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 07/06/2015 12:24:59 AM
That is soooo very clever shifting hues, got me fooled well done on the HM!
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 07/06/2015 12:10:46 AM
Great work Mark!!! Go Hit Squad!
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 07/06/2015 12:06:08 AM
Fantastic! Congrats on the HM Mark!

GO HIT SQUAD!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/05/2015 08:41:33 PM
I don't know, but it does look "viral", good one, should score well.
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 07/05/2015 08:39:22 PM
Voted on most of the photos and come back to this one, this looks cartoonish, not even sure how you achieved this desired result very unusual and in your face, and my pic for the red or yellow. Great job overall on the colours and textures, bump.
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 07/05/2015 06:11:26 AM
Something in my carpet?
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 07/04/2015 11:04:12 PM
please don't tell me this is something we eat lol
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 07/02/2015 09:47:15 PM
poopernova
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 07/02/2015 02:16:27 PM
looks like some water experiment gone bad
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 07/02/2015 01:31:32 PM
a bit puzzled by this, but I think it's a light fixture, they have some fun ones out that look pretty funky, and if you left the back open a bit against a fun backdrop you could get a very interesting shot ;)
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 07/02/2015 12:28:19 PM
Oh, this is grand. Some kind of berry inverted in color.
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 07/02/2015 04:06:03 AM
A close up.
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 07/02/2015 03:18:41 AM
Pollen?
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 07/01/2015 08:00:30 PM
raspberry
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 06/30/2015 11:34:14 PM
raspberry with inverted colour?
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 06/30/2015 11:02:17 PM
very cool...guessing a raspberry with back lighting??
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 06/30/2015 11:40:24 AM
Hmmm, someone else has one of those fancy lenses.
Nice one.
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 06/30/2015 11:22:07 AM
Fruit orgy.
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 06/30/2015 12:08:29 AM
Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear... is it a bear? Quite alien! (Raspberry inverted?)
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 06/29/2015 02:56:01 PM
A Bacteria!
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 06/29/2015 01:31:46 PM
Hah! That is great. Either a blackberry or raspberry. I would guess the latter with inverted colors.
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 06/29/2015 12:31:14 PM
Cherries
nice colors
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 06/29/2015 05:55:05 AM
Raspberry. A tad oversaturated. Well chosen background.
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