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Polish 'Exploding Vader Head' Poster for Return of the Jedi from the Cartamundi Star Wars Poster Playing Cards
4th of July 2011 from Seattle. Fireworks galore as they go off. I used BULB mode on the camera and F/8 to take most of the shots. Enjoy!
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This watermelon was in the Bermuda Triangle of my kitchen, where living things die. Four days after I got it, and the day was hoping to eat it, I noticed it had exploded on the top and strange looking watermelon meat was oozing out of the top. After I found this watermelon in such a state, I put it in a bag and hours later, the bag was full of water because the whole fruit liquified.
I put a plant in that corner once, and within a few days the leaves had liquified. At first, I thought it was an odd looking case of root rot, but then the plant I put in its place died as well, and now the watermelon and apple. I'm wondering if something weird is going on in that corner of my kitchen. Any ideas?
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Thanks to urtica for identifying these seeds as Erythrina, or coral beans.
The pod was so hard, more than two years after I found it, that I had to use pliers to crack it open. You were right, urtica: the beans and pods were the same plant!
Serendipity this one! I was experimenting with the autofocus on my camera . Interested to see if it would be fazed by a mirror I took this picture. I liked it so much that I then flipped it (to un-reverse the mirror image) and shared it with you out there!
doesn't this sort of look like a tic exploding?
Special thanks to Johnny for taking Kathy and I out last night to show us the ropes and share his truckload of light art toys (not joking). Fun night that involved getting busted by the cops, showing my 8 yr old nephew that photography isn't just about pointing and shooting, and learning a few things. Yay!
The Asteraceae or Compositae, also referred to as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family, is the largest family of vascular plants. The family has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera, and 12 subfamilies. The largest genera are Senecio (1,500 species), Vernonia (1,000 species), Cousinia (600 species) and Centaurea (600 species).
Most members of the Asteraceae are herbaceous, but a significant number are also shrubs, vines and trees. The family is distributed throughout the world, and is most common in the arid and semi-arid regions of subtropical and lower temperate latitudes.
Many economically important products come from composites, including cooking oils, lettuce, sunflower seeds, artichokes, sweetening agents, and teas. Several genera are also very popular with the horticultural community, these include marigolds, chrysanthemums, dahlias, zinnias, and heleniums.