Unlike the other 4 mice in this series for which I specifically made the focals, I was able to pull a suitable focal from my stash, the very last, so far as I know, from a 2007 series of Bullseye curliQs, for which (again, so far as I know) I documented only the pink ones[1]
So, only 15 years later, here's the shot of the yellow batch:
Nikon E8400 (coolpix) f/5.6, ev +0.7, focal length: 16mm; 1/49s, ISO: 50, incandescent flood, 10May2007; cropped, value adjusted in gimp.
I got the pin polisher sometime in 2004 (or possibly 2005) but perhaps still hadn't worked out all my issues with bead release; there's certainly chunks of something inside a couple of those beads...But the one I had left was fine, and so I strung this mouse, adding clear seed beads to make my life a little easier: pure, solid monochrome to my eyes is difficult to break out of that flat, dull aspect.
yellow curliQ mouse with a bullseye glass focal measuring approx 11x15mm; length overall approx 5-3/4"/14.5cm. Lampwork, base metal, stainless steel, glass. sony ILCE-7C, sony 90mm macro lens, f/3.5, ev 0, 1/160s, ISO 50, godox manual flash. Value adjustment, cropping, scaling.
And I admit it amuses me to be using components that are 10 or 15 (or more) years old: a bridge, if you will between my past and present selves, possibly to be appreciated by some future self.
[1]AFICT, I never posted the 4 lime greens I made, though I did photograph them; and I found another dead mouse with a yellow bullseye curliQ but I think it was made later, as it appears to be significantly smaller than this lot. But I can't say for certain.
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