What is It?
Anyone care to guess what this is? It was a very dull almost monotone shot, so I processed some colour into it.
EDIT: clues are piling up in the comments section.
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EDIT: I tried to add this image to the comments, but it was not showing properly, so here it is – another clue, another part of the same thing.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 100mm/f2.8 lens, ISO640, top: f4, 1/25oth; bottom: f2.8, 1/100th. Processed in Topaz Restyle and LR
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burnt embers 
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Icing or meringue would then have been my second guess … Something containing the white of an egg …
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Mathias – you got it. I won’t demand the “something” (a mixing bowl out of the picture). It is egg whites, freshly beaten, ready to go in a cheese soufflé. Thanks for coming back and finishing off the quiz!
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Yeaaaah ! 🙂 The last picture helped me a lot (although I also thought of a caterpillar 😉 ) !!
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I know, and we eat this stuff, with a great deal of pleasure. Good thing we don’t have macro eyeballs and strange coloured filters on our retinas. Or maybe we do, and the very best stuff looks revolting to us and we leave it alone. Like worms.
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Or caterpillars ! 😀
But don’t worry, as soon as I could imagine the real color of the egg whites … I almost took a little spoon and tried to taste it … but I realized it was just about to scratch the screen of my computer 😉
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Looks like mud or human skin to me. 🙂
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Ashley, sorry, but not even close. The clues and other comments are at the point that the answer is just waiting. Easily attainable with one or two guesses. But no dirt, and no human body parts.
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Yeah, I read the other guesses but it still looks like mud or skin to me. 🙂
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Golden mud. I should have submitted it to Dirtgazing. No one would have known any better.
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haha!
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I can reblog it on Dirtgazing, if you want…..
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You can if you want, but its not dirt… I can easily make some other fake dirt and send it over though. Plenty of material waiting for a bit of post-processing.
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Well, as you know, the definition of “dirt” is pretty lax, but even with those broad parameters, this wouldn’t fit, would it?
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Well, this subject is often found on the dirt, but not in the context I photographed it, so you had better pass on reblogging it. I’ll send you something else fairly soon – just processing research photos right now, so maybe tomorrow.
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Thanks for the reblog of yesterday’s Dirtgazing post – I’ve just gotten two new followers, and am assuming they are a result of the reblog.
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🙂
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Is it meringue?
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Lisa – welcome to my blog and you are extremely close to the answer. Not only is not hard, it is not firm either.
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And here is another picture of it, in case that helps:
Well, that is not working very well, so I inserted the new image into the post above.
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OK, another clue. Mjollnir has the correct scale in his first answer and the preprocessing colour in the second. It is not hard.
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I’ll summarise the clues – perhaps if you blend them together you will come up with the right answer:
* A plate might (and likely would) come into play.
* The colour of sugar, but not sugar. Which kind of sugar not yet specified.
* An ingredient that can be found in pie crust, but not in this form.
* Can also be found at the top of a repurposed downspout, but not in this form.
* Originates from the brown planetoid L-7V-15.
* Centipedes and worms, in this context, make me gag. They would make you gag too.
* Contrary to appearance it is not gold or hard.
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Oops, that should be L-7V-15. I have changed it.
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It’s the remains of an alien from the planetoid LV-426.
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Ken – you are getting close. Wrong planetoid. It comes from one that is brown.
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LV303?
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L-7V-15
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I’m thinking a drain pipe of sorts.
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Melinda it is so not surprising that a trained architect and offspring of a cicil engineer would think drain pipe. However that too is wrong in all ways. I suppose that one of these might occasionally be found at the top of a poorly maintained or naturally repurposed downspout.
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Oh my. Now I see that I thought your reply was from Melinda! 🙂 Darned phones with their small screens and my bleary pre-tea morning eyes. Sorry about that.
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Hi David. I am not sure why your comment did not show earlier. You and Melinda are on the same page and as I mentioned in my answer to her a downspout can be, and sometimes is, used in nature to help make this.
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The back of a centipede ? 🙂
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Hi Mathias. I can see why you might think so but when the answer is revealed you will see why your (and Val’s) answer makes me smile and gag at the same time.
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I knew I was wrong! I knew it! But I had to try 😉
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It is the skin of an earthworm from your garden, which was trying to escape the waterlogged ground by crossing a concrete path but then it started raing again and it drowned anyway.
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Hi Val. It does look like an earthworm in this picture but most certainly is not – not even one that died in a valiant struggle with rain. A part of what you see here, or rather the part you don’t see, is often found in compost heaps in the company of worms.
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Pie crust 😀
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Hi Mjollnir and welcome to my blog. You are getting far closer than the other guessers. This material, though rarely or never in this form, can be part of a pie crust
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Close but no cigar? Oh well! Sugar?
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Not sugar but you are inching towards the answer (though compared to Ken you are moving at lightspeed). I think that in North America sugar might be a fairly common part of pie crust, though not in my kitchen.
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I am going to hazard a guess that it is either some jewelry or the rim of a plate of some kind.
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Hi Ben. It does look like gold but is not as that is totally a post processing effect. You would not want to wear it. The plate is closer but not in the obvious way.
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