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Part of a series for a lighting class. The objective was to carry the same feeling throughout different images. I tried to go for the cryptic, erie and antique look.
Strobist: one 580x on a light stand camera right with a snoot. Post production in light room, blur made in ps
I was curious about the sort of envelope looking apron the man was wearing. I did some reseach and discovered it has to do with the Cryptic Masons. Crystal Lake Cemetery was at one time the Masonic Cemetery in Corvallis, Oregon, USA
For the What's in the Background Group, there is a Civil War Memorial Statue that was placed at Crystal Lake Cemetery 100 years before this picture.
(0476crypticmasonsqpaunch&circumstance) What can I say? I needed a top hat for one of the flickr group games I play.
"Skunk Cabbage" is a member of the aroid family, and is native to the north eastern United States, and eastern Canada. It is one of the first of our native wildflowers to bloom in late winter and early spring, producing a curious hooded inflorescence, which is cryptically colored to blend in with the leaf litter. This species usually grows in wetlands under deciduous woods - the plants seen here growing in a soil with a high humus content - practically black muck.
Like some other members of the aroid family, the flowers of this plant can generate a significant amount of heat, both protecting the inflorescence from extreme cold, and aiding in the dispersal of it fragrance.
Both the common name and the specific epithet refer to the fetid odor emitted from the flowers, and the crushed leaves of this plant. The flowers are pollinated by a variety of insects, primarily flies and native bees.
The leaves of this plant had been consumed by the indigenous peoples of this region, after drying the leaves to neutralize chemicals which could irritate the mouth and throat.
Dear Flikr,
Hi!,
So I have been away for months, I was just waiting for some things to pass, such as my results, and now I'm going to share some stuff with you finally! yay!.
I could give you many other reasons for my delay, but quite frankly I'm not going to waste your time, and you deserve better from me :)
I know this is not that good but I wanted to put up an SOC (straight out of camera) shot, and this exactly that, excepttt the only edit is the use of burn tool at the bottom dark area, and the small watermark.
feel free to add tags/notes/comments give song/better title suggestions
Your's sincerely,
Me 8)
What it is, is, the underside of a "Osmia bucephala" bee's head.
There are a lot of different species of bees, A LOT. I'm working on learning taxonomy and lately, because of my interest in photography, I've been taking pictures to upload to an online digital key. www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Bee_genera
The character I was trying to shoot was a ridge that runs around a groove where the tongue is.
The bee, which was a pinned specimen, was not in a position conducive to my success. I pivoted and turned the bee this way and that, yet I could not get a clear shot at the character. The fore legs were in the way. I had to remove them. I hate that. I hate breaking a specimen.
Bees have quite elaborate tongues, as you might expect from a nectar-feeding animal. Some groups of bees have very large tongues. This bee had a large tongue which was also in my way. I had to remove it.
Still no good. There was so much hair on the bee that I still couldn't see the character. The angle was all wrong. So I to shave the underside of the head. I didn't have a microscalpel at hand, so I used an insect pin as best as I could. I removed the head from the bee.
Turning it this way and that, I was very frustrated with the results. The ridge, which was small, was not popping out. I tried messing with the lights, changing angles, changing colors. Nothing made it pop.
What's worse, on the set up I am using, the screen I use to focus is has such low resolution it looks like I'm playing a round of eight-bit centipede on an old gameboy. The scope itself is lovely. The camera is okay. But the hardware of the controls is sucky. Plus the card is some proprietary piece of crap and that is frustrating. But it is the focus screen that makes me nuts. Makes me want to find that greedy so and so who cheaped out on the screen and give him a piece of my mind. A system is only as good as its weakest link and, well, this is why I will never buy an Olympus.
Yeah, frustration.
Today I'll probably make another stab at this character.
mm frustration
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2:00PM to 4:00PM Second Sailstice Novice Regatta in the North Sea
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Cryptic grasshopper (Trigonopteryx sp.) camouflaged among leaf litter. Selangor, Malaysia.
More Orthopterans of Malaysia: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2013/02/orthoptera-of-malaysia....
Worcester Cathedral is a magnificent sight as it rises majestically above the River Severn. Worcester has been the seat of a bishopric since the Seventh Century, and the Cathedral was served by monks until the Reformation. St Oswald and St Wulfstan were among the bishops.
This crossword was another contribution to the magazine. I didn't receive a single entry for the competition.
I'll admit the cryptic nature isn't that straight forward, but makes sense inside my mind. For example:
1 Across: "Favoured grain of Daoist founder? Keep taking the tablets (5)". The answer is PILAF (tablets=pills, pilaf also prononounced pilau as in the of Laozi....
Or
6 Down: "With Welsh trimmings. Oh blessed! (6)" The answer is CUMBRIAN. Cum=with, (the actor Brian) Blessed.
The poor response ensured I have never bothered compiling another crossword in my life.
Cryptic sticker seen on a newspaper rack in San Francisco, California. Why wasn't I invited to the team party?
The wrybill is a small pale plover which breeds only in braided rivers of the South Island. It is the only bird in the world with a laterally-curved bill (always curved to the right), which it uses to reach insect larvae under rounded riverbed stones. Wrybills are completely dependent on braided rivers for breeding; all their life stages are predominantly grey, and highly cryptic among the greywacke shingle of the riverbeds.
The wrybill is an internal migrant. After breeding, almost the entire population migrates north to winter in the harbours of the northern North Island, notably the Firth of Thames and Manukau Harbour. On their wintering grounds, wrybills form dense flocks at high-water roosts; the highly-coordinated aerial manoeuvres of these flocks have been described as resembling a flung scarf.
A cryptic message on a lamp-post in front of Macondo Books.
What might it mean?! Is it a message? A warning? A joke?
Opinions are welcome!
Beautiful bird, well coloured & marked - sadly I fluffed the images - all blurred other than this one.
This is looking at the cryptic underwings of a Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterfly "puddling" - taking moisture - from dry oak leaves in our canyon. There is moisture under the dry surface of the leaves, and you can see the butterfly's proboscis disappearing down between the leaves to find it. I have a recent photo of the brilliant upper wings here. I see these butterflies on sunny days in winter, though I don't always get a photo. (San Marcos Pass, 28 December 2016)
The woods are starting to feel dry, though there is still moisture in the ground. We have an 80% chance of more rain tomorrow night, and there is a chance of another, colder storm this weekend. Bring it on!