A luxury!

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The photo is very good.

The eggs are not that expensive in Australia yet but they can be hard to get. They are mostly under $5.00 per dozen.

Thank you.

Shelves here are empty of eggs.

Nice luxury.

Interesting subject of what I eat for breakfast most days, and the replies suggesting scarcity while we have white, brown, blue, various sizes and quality (and bird types) etc to choose from

anyway, keeping it photography related here’s one I did a few years ago when I was getting started, I think I was trying to copy an image i’d seen, lighting was poor though







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Jim

Berit was a legendary glassblower and designer. She designed the Nimbus when she worked for Orrefors Glassworks from 1979-1983, which is also where she met, and later married, the equally legendary Jan Johansson. The Nimbus remained in production until 1995 and is generally considered to be the most ubiquitous Orrefors votive, and probably second only to the KostaBoda "snowball" as the world's most well known.

You'll sometimes see the Nimbus called the "artichoke", for obvious reasons, and the "firefly". No adequate explanation exists for that second name. It is neither of those things: it was inspired by the "nimbus" halos seen around the heads of Saints in certain paintings.

After Orrefors, Berit and Jan would go on start Art Design AB, and famously did most of the design work for Salviati in Murano. They are no longer with us: Berit passed in 2021, following Jan's 2018 exit.

Speaking of "marriages", Jan Johansson worked for Orrefors, while his younger brother Mats Johansson started working for competitor KostaBoda a little after. Orrefores and Kosta would merge in the 80s.

John Firzpatrick, the man who taught my late wife and I to blow glass, apprenticed over at KostaBoda in that timeframe. Six degrees, lol.

Thank you for that information - I love this votive as well as the "raspberry" from Orrefors - we have a few of the latter, but just one of the "Artichoke". I didn't know it was called the Nimbus.

Newbie Phewbie said:

Thank you for that information - I love this votive as well as the "raspberry" from Orrefors

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The raspberry has a whole line. Votive, vase, and plate, two sizes each. Opening the Orrefors book: Anne Nilsson design, 1992. Still in production.

My favorite is the large bowl. Sitting on a white tablecloth on an end table, when the sunlight hits it just right there's dots everywhere.

https://www.orrefors.us/products/raspberry-bowl-6475713

Although on a raspberry votive, when the candle burns to the right height it does much the same thing.

Newbie Phewbie said:

- we have a few of the latter, but just one of the "Artichoke". I didn't know it was called the Nimbus.

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Well, if you want more Nimbusses (Nimbi?) they seem to be a glut on the market and go for like $10 on the bay.

Raspberries, on the other hand, go for around full price. Unless you happen to find the large vase at a garage sale for $5. I love days like that.

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The term "mirrorless" is totally obsolete. It's time we call out EVIL for what it is. (Or, if you can't handle "Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens" then Frenchify it and call it "LIVE" for "Lens Interchangeable, Viewfinder Electronic" or "Viseur électronique").
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Stanley Joseph Wisniewski 1932-2019.
Dad, so much of you is in me.
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Christine Fleischer 1947-2014.
My soulmate. There are no other words.
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Rahon Klavanian 1912-2008.
Armenian genocide survivor, amazing cook, scrabble master, and loving grandmother. You will be missed.
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Ciao! Joseph
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This is my late wife Christine, day after Christmas (Boxing day?) 2007.

Nikon D3, ISO 3200, 1/40 sec, 85mm f/1.4 at f/3.2.

Focus was on her, and we didn't use a posing stand, but there are fifteen Orrefors and Kosta votives, and six Christmas trees that have been with us for forever. The wine glass is etched with Kokopelli: it's from a local etcher. The bowl and vase to her right were two gifts from me to her, the blurry statue is a flute playing fairy she gave me (I have one of the world's largest collections of flute playing fairies, with around 15 of them, lol).

Some of the votives

• Three Orrefors Nimbuses (Nimben?) (Two to her left near the bottom, one to the right).
• Two Orrefors Raspberries (lower left, upper center right)
• An Orrefors Carat by Lena Bergström right above the lower strawberry)
• An Orrefors Max right above the upper strawberry.
• An Orrefors Starfish, mid right.
• A KostaBoda Igloo top center.
• A KostaBoda Rock top left.
• Two KostaBoda snowballs
• Three I can't identify, but this is, after all, a picture of Chris.

Nikon D3

Newbie Phewbie said:

Newbie Phewbie wrote:Lena Bergström


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The term "mirrorless" is totally obsolete. It's time we call out EVIL for what it is. (Or, if you can't handle "Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens" then Frenchify it and call it "LIVE" for "Lens Interchangeable, Viewfinder Electronic" or "Viseur électronique").
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Stanley Joseph Wisniewski 1932-2019.
Dad, so much of you is in me.
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Christine Fleischer 1947-2014.
My soulmate. There are no other words.
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Rahon Klavanian 1912-2008.
Armenian genocide survivor, amazing cook, scrabble master, and loving grandmother. You will be missed.
----
Ciao! Joseph
www.swissarmyfork.com

That's quite a collection!

The Raspberry collection sounds beautiful, especially how it plays with light! That large bowl on a white tablecloth must look stunning.

Tableclothlinen said:

The Raspberry collection sounds beautiful, especially how it plays with light! That large bowl on a white tablecloth must look stunning.

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It does, indeed.