20 February 2014

A better model for a soft toy?

Relatively Retiring apparently has plans to make soft toys inspired by a couple of earlier photographs (here and here). I'm sure her grand-daughter would be delighted with either version, but in case a more, ..., er, ... conventional soft toy might be needed, this might be a better model. It's a porina moth — the host of one of the other models.*

(My sense of humour might be unusual, but you can't say I don't have one.)


* Actually, the moth isn't at risk — the fly parasitises the caterpillars.




[19 February 2014, Olympus OM-D EM-1, 60 mm f2.8 Macro , ISO 200, 1/80 at f5.6; focus stacked]

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7 comments:

  1. Barbara Butler McCoy21 February 2014 at 00:53

    Oh my! What an awesome idea - soft toys modeled on some of your photos. This moth, I agree, looks like it could be translated into something very cuddly. Seriously - I do love soft toys. The jumping spider reminds me, oddly, of a soft ring-tailed lemur I have; my son gave me a 'Shaun the Sheep' (have you seen those Aardman productions?) a couple of years ago ... then there are the toys I've made ... As you can tell, I'm an old softie. Thanks! Take care.

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  2. Relatively Retiring21 February 2014 at 02:04

    Oh yes! It even looks as if it has a zip already in place!
    I'll be taking some time out in the near future, so this is a project to keep my mind elsewhere.

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  3. Zhoen21 February 2014 at 02:28

    Strangely cuddly.

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  4. Elephant's Child21 February 2014 at 09:48

    Relatively retiring is right about the already present zip. And I am pretty certain that I would happily snuggle with this toy...

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  5. pohanginapete21 February 2014 at 11:16

    Barbara, a ring-tailed lemur soft toy sounds as good as it gets, so if the jumping spider reminds you of that, maybe a soft-toy version isn't as weird as it sounds. (Shaun-the-sheep is delightful, too.)

    RR, the more I think about it, the more I realise a lot of not-at-all-obvious subjects might make interesting soft toys. You might have started something ;^)

    Zhoen, both words seem totally apt.

    EC, I'm pretty sure RR's grand-daughter would (will) too.

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  6. Zhoen22 February 2014 at 14:18

    http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/

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  7. pohanginapete22 February 2014 at 21:38

    Brilliant! Thanks Zhoen.

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