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Explore Oct 26, 2020 #456
Glorybower is one of the easiest, most delightful tropical shrubs I know. It fills medians and surrounds homes. It's beautiful in bloom and in seed... in fact, it's spectacular! I love all its phases! Search my photostream for more views of this glorious plant.
Glorybower, Clerodendrum splendens
Biscayne Park, FL
Close up of the inside structure of a Hellebore flower.
I had to prop this bloom up to take this photo as the blooms on these plants tend to bend downwards, hiding their beauty.
Sepals...Protect the unopened flower
Petals...May be brightly coloured to attract insects
Stamens...The male parts of the flower (each consists of an anther held up on a filament)
Anthers...Produce male sex cells (pollen grains)
Stigma...The top of the female part of the flower which collects pollen grains
Ovary...Produces the female sex cells (contained in the ovules)
Nectary...Produce a sugary solution called nectar, which attracts insects..."
(EN) Filament blenny - (FR) Blennie à filaments
Alticus monochrus, subadult grazing on emerged rocks, Réunion Island
Compare this to the previous post, which had prairie smoke flowers. After the flowers are pollinated and the seeds are developing, the flowers turn from pendant to upright. When seeds are ready to disperse, long filaments develop, ready to loft the seeds on the next breeze.
At a close view, one can see the petals inside of the sepals and bracts filaments that have not yet elongated.
Incandescent light bulb filament (46 micrometer diameter) breaking the surface of water. The filament is against a glass surface and surface tension creates a sheath around it as it enters the water.
Latourell Falls, Columbia Gorge, Oregon.
I am looking upstream through the lush vegetation, supersaturated from the mist that hangs in the air, trapped in the dark basalt ampitheater. The creek above descends the mountain and plunges straight off the volcanic cliff, adorned with lichen patches. The fall is a single rope of water, twisting and fraying as it drops, two hundred and fifty feet, all air. It is like a filament against that dark rock, a bright connection between two worlds. Energy races down the column and then starts back up it in a pulverized spray of molecules. The creek, reconstructed, races to the river. But we run on a different current. The connections between us are not as visible--love, respect, trust, honesty. Break them and the bond is gone, the light between you is betrayed. Filaments are fragile things. The fall can dry up, the tungsten can break, the soul falter. I let the fall blur in my vision, wishing there was one look, one act, one word that would make it right.
The composition of this image is such that the part of the frosted plant in focus reminds me of a musical note or caligraphy.
Taken for the macro Monday's group for the theme "The space in between" and this is a photo of a bulb for a car with the glass removed.
it shows the filament for the bulb which stretches in between the support wires.
The filament was lit by a torch and my smartphone was in the background displaying a gradient.
Filaments - Capturing high quality portraits of wildlife is something that I really enjoy. Even though Red-tailed Hawks are common, so common in fact, they are often overlooked as subjects, they can be difficult to photograph up close.
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to photograph a juvenile bird recently. I was able to capture this closeup showcasing the beauty of the feather filaments, beak, and eye. The Nikon D850 really shines for wildlife portraiture - with both zoom lenses and prime lenses. I've also been loving DxO PureRaw - it really renders my RAW files so much cleaner and does a much more natural job cleaning up noise than Topaz Denoise (also a great program, but applies default sharpening even at a setting of 0, which causes artifacts).
View large for feather detail.
Species: Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
Location: Santa Clara County, CA, USA
Equipment: Nikon D850 + Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 ED VR, Handheld
Settings: 1/160s, ISO: 360, f/5.6 @500mm, +0.3 EV
I've been pointing the Laowa 65mm x2 lens at quite a few things and tonight was no exception! I have a lamp with a sexy Edison bulb in it and I was trying to get ultra close with the lens. Took several attempts as they are moving all the time but I marvel at this lens and the detail it gets.
A macro of the filament inside a small light bulb. The filament frames the focused center of the bulb. Taken with a Canon 60mm USM macro lens. Type L for a better view.
The filaments are outside our double-paned kitchen window, which had been cleaned inside, but not outside. At the moment that I snapped this, the wind was causing the filaments to dance wildly. I was surprised that the image actually had any defined lines.
“This World” by Mary Oliver
I would like to write a poem about the world that has in it
nothing fancy.
But it seems impossible.
Whatever the subject, the morning sun
glimmers it.
The tulip feels the heat and flaps its petals open and becomes a star.
The ants bore into the peony bud and there is a dark
pinprick well of sweetness.
As for the stones on the beach, forget it.
Each one could be set in gold.
So I tried with my eyes shut, but of course the birds
were singing.
And the aspen trees were shaking the sweetest music
out of their leaves.
And that was followed by, guess what, a momentous and
beautiful silence
as comes to all of us, in little earfuls, if we’re not too
hurried to hear it.
As for spiders, how the dew hangs in their webs
even if they say nothing, or seem to say nothing.
So fancy is the world, who knows, maybe they sing.
So fancy is the world, who knows, maybe the stars sing too,
and the ants, and the peonies, and the warm stones,
so happy to be where they are, on the beach, instead of being
locked up in gold.
A filament burns up in a smashed light bulb. Take away the inert gas or vacuum inside a bulb and it burns up.
I refuse to comment on how many light bulbs I went through before I managed to smash one without damaging the filament.
Strobist: 1/200 f/7.1 SB900 1/16 into 63sm square softbox behind with black cardboard over to create rimlight triggered via cable. Camera on rapid shutter. 90v filament voltage.