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I have already dead headed this bush several times, but after the last time, I got this nice cluster of blooms.
“Fungi constitute the most poorly understood and underappreciated kingdom of life on Earth.” — Michael Pollan
Back to Smuggler Cove and a treasure hunt for another chest of gems. This time it is the discovery of a cluster of Lilly pads floating in the shadows. Their greenish hue is further enhanced by the deep blue in the water and the black shadows from the surrounding trees that grow in the bog.
They almost shimmer in the reflected light and remind me that landscape photography can be a matter of discovery, rather than time of day.
For years I have wanted Beautyberry growing in my yard. But life, weather and insects conspired against me ... until now!
The colors... grape green to deep magenta! The songs of visiting birds! Last years bushes are now in full fruit and their spaced clusters of berries are ripening from green to pinky purple. Even the veins of the leaves have a purplish tint. I love the texture of the edge of the tiny leaf above the green berry cluster in this image. And the deep hazy purple tones in the background.
American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)
Also called French mulberry
Biscayne Park, FL
Delicate Arbutus Marina captured in the soft Winter afternoon light in Berkeley, California. Shot with an old manual Vivitar Series 1 105 Macro that I quite like. I appreciate the colors and bokeh it produces.
Image from Unsplash: unsplash.com
Post processed in Topaz Studio 2 Acrylic Filters
Texture from 2 Lil’ Owls/Lumen collection # 24
I loved visiting the Quail Botanical Gardens in Encinitas, CA. There were exotic plants I'd never seen before. I don't know what this one is but it reminded me of bananas.
The other day, on the rather testing climb to the top of Mt Amos, I stopped for a breather and found myself in good company: a cluster of ancient lichen-covered rocks doing exactly the same thing. We sat there in companionable silence, admiring the view they’ve been enjoying for a few million years longer than me.
Mt Amos sits within Freycinet National Park on Tasmania’s east coast, part of the Hazards range of pink-granite peaks overlooking Coles Bay and Wineglass Bay. It’s one of my favourite spots in Australia. Though, to be fair, so is everywhere else I visit!
And when I say, “the other day,” these days that could mean anything from yesterday to about twenty years ago. 😉
Fun Fact: Many mountains are made of granite - which is gneiss of them. Geologists have been known to take them for granite ... but only once. 😉
Happy Hump Day everyone!
Waterscape 88/100 for 2025
... is a cluster of begonias. Happy Friday!
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Sh2-274 is a planetary nebula in the Gemini constellation, roughly 1500 light years from earth.
Image acquisition details:
24x300" HA
26x300" OIII
30x120" Red
30x120" Green
30x120" Blue
A real gem in the night sky, this globular star cluster is M13 (13th entry in Charles Messier's catalogue of deep sky objects), the Great Hercules Cluster in the northern hemisphere sky. It is visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy patch of light under a clear, dark sky. Located about 25,000 light-years away from Earth, this globular cluster is made up of several hundred thousand stars and occupies a region of space that measures around 150 light-years in diameter. The stars of M13 are about 12 billion years old, an age comparable to the age of the Universe itself (about 13.7 billion years).
Look at it with a small telescope and the view is filled with countless sparkling stars. With larger telescopes and in deep exposures the tremendous number of stars becomes evident. One can only imagine the view from a hypothetical planet around a star close to the center of M13, a night sky filled with thousands of stars brighter than the brightest stars in our own night sky.
The faint 12th-magnitude galaxy NGC 6207 can be seen below and to the left of M13. It is a spiral galaxy located about 40 million light years away that appears by chance close to M13. Between M13 and NGC 6207 lies another smaller and fainter galaxy - IC 4617, which is more than 10 times farther away than NGC 6207. Can you spot it?
Telescope: Orion EON ED 80/500 refractor
Mount: Modified Vixen Sphinx (NexSXW)
Camera: Canon EOS 20Da
Light frames: 28 x 3 minutes (total: 84 minutes), ISO 1600, Daylight WB, calibrated with darks
Guiding: Skywatcher 80/400 refractor, Skywatcher Synguider autoguider
Date & Location: 3/5/2019 - Chalkidiki, Greece
Processing: DSS 4.1.1, Adobe Photoshop CS6 with Astronomy Tools Actions Set (spikes added to the brightest stars)