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Thinking about this week's Crazy Tuesday theme of "Trees and Leaves"and while our trees are just getting underway, the leaves seem to be turning brown and dropping at the same time. The jury's still out on a nice colorful Fall but we'll see in the upcoming days/weeks. I love the look of the hickory tree with it's compound leaf but I've already posted one of the leaflets so I needed something a bit different. I looked around the yard and this one grouping caught my eye. A hickory leaf with 3 leaflets, all brown but loaded with character (IMO), I knew it would be all about the lighting and this has a main light to the left and above camera, additional fill to the right and a bit from the back-top for a hair light. The grouping measures about 5 in. tall X 4 in. wide X 2 in. deep. I was hoping for a B&W conversion but the brown color won out in the end.
Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro, 8 Image Focus Stack shot at f/11.
Cycads are seed plants with a very long fossil history that were formerly more abundant and more diverse than they are today.They have a cylindrical trunk which usually does not branch. Leaves grow directly from the trunk, and typically fall when older, leaving a crown of leaves at the top. The leaves grow in a rosette form, with new foliage emerging from the top and center of the crown. The trunk may be buried, so the leaves appear to be emerging from the ground, so the plant appears to be a basal rosette. The leaves are generally large in proportion to the trunk size, and sometimes even larger than the trunk. The leaves are pinnate (in the form of bird feathers, pinnae), with a central leaf stalk from which parallel ribs emerge from each side of the stalk, perpendicular to it. The leaves are typically either compound (the leaf stalk has leaflets emerging from it as ribs, or have edges (margins) so deeply cut (incised) so as to appear compound. Some species have leaves that are bipinnate, which means the leaflets each have their own subleaflets, growing in the same form on the leaflet as the leaflets grow on the stalk of the leaf (self-similar geometry). 26357
Anemonoides trifolia (Ranunculaceae) 095 23
Anemonoides trifolia (syn. Anemone trifolia) is a perennial herbaceous plant in buttercup family (Ranunculaceae).
The plant has stems growing 10–30 cm tall and bear single (*), white (rarely pale pink or pale bluish) flowers two centimetres in diameter, with five to nine (most often six) elliptical tepals. Its leaves are divided into three lanceolate leaflets and form a single whorl of three leaves per stem; the leaflets have a toothed but not lobed margin. The flowering period extends from April through June.
(*) This plant bears two flowers (not one as usual).
St Michael & All Angels Church is a Chapel of Ease of Youlgrave parish church. According to Kelly's Directory of 1912, its chapel building was for many years disused when it was restored in 1899, and an earlier chapel at Middleton is also mentioned in a guide leaflet for Youlgrave Parish Church, which disappeared after the Reformation, along with others at Gratton and Stanton,
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Newly unwrapped palm frond is uncurling its myriad of leaflets. It's part of a small, low palm that recently got a brand new set of fronds which rose from the center of the stem like a knot of finger-thick snakes. They are now unfurling, looking very frond-like, but do not yet have their needle sharp spines.
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Seen near Liverpool Street on my trip to London with [https://www.flickr.com/photos/sasastro/]. Ginkgo biloba is a large, deciduous tree that matures to 100' tall and is considered to be a living fossil. It is the only surviving member of a group of ancient plants believed to have inhabited the earth up to 150 million years ago. It features distinctive two-lobed, somewhat leathery, fan-shaped, rich green leaves with diverging (almost parallel) veins. Leaves turn bright yellow in fall. Ginkgo trees are commonly called maidenhair trees in reference to the resemblance of their fan-shaped leaves to maidenhair fern leaflets (pinnae). Ginkgos are dioecious (separate male and female trees). Nurseries typically sell only male trees because female trees produce seeds encased in fleshy, fruit-like cone which, at maturity in autumn, are messy and emit a noxious, foul odor upon falling to the ground and splitting open.
Genus name is a misrendering of the Japanese gin meaning silver and kyo meaning apricot used in Japan in the 17th century.
Specific epithet means two-lobed in reference to the leaves.
Diffusely spreading, half-woody herb, with branched stems up to 1 meter long, sparingly prickly with numerous deflexed, bristly hairs. The leaves are very sensitive, both pinnae and leaflets, folding when touched. The leaflets are narrowly oblong, inequilateral, 1 to 1.5 cm long, sessile, with pointed tips. Heads are long-peduncled, solitary or 2 to 3 in each axil, about 1 cm diameter. Pods are flat, 1 to 2 cm long, with 3 to 4 one-sided joints that fall away on maturity. Florets are red in the upper part with pink to lavender filaments.
Other scientific names Other common names
Mimosa asperata Blanco Babain (Ilk.) Sipug-sipug (Sub.)
Damohia (Tag.) Tuyag-huyag (P. Bis.)
Dilgansusu (Ilk.) Torog-torog (Bik.)
Harupai (S. L. Bis.) Bashful mimosa (Engl.)
Huya-huya (Bis.) Humble plant (Engl.)
Kiromkirom (S. L. Bis.) Sensitive plant (Engl.)
Makahia (Pang., Tag.)
Tickle-Me plant (Engl.)
Studies
• Antimicrobial: Study showed antimicrobial activity against Aspergillus fumigatus, Citrobacter divergens and Klebsiella pneumonia.
• Anticonvulsant: Study showed intraperitoneal use of Mimosa pudica decoction protected mice against pentylentetrazol and strychnine-induced seizures.
• Plant extracts showed the plant to be a moderate diuretic, depresses duodenal contractions (similar to atrophine), promotes nerve regeneration and reduce menorrhagia.
• Also shown to have antidepressant activity.
• Wound Healing: Study of the methanolic extract exhibited good wound healing activity, an effect attributable to phenol constituents.
• Strong emetic effect of extracts attributed to mimosine.
• Antifertility Studies: Studies on the root extract of M. pudica showed antifertility effect with prolongation of the estrous cycle and disturbance of the secretion of gonadotropin hormones in albino mice.
• Antitoxin / Antivenom Studies: (1) A study in India screened several herbal plants for antivenin activity against common sea snake venom Enhydrina schistosa, the most toxic among the common sea snakes. The investigation showed antivenom activiety in the alcoholic extract of Mimosa pudica, Mucuna pruriens, and Andrographis paniculata. (2) Study on the aqueous extract of dried roots of Mimosa pudica showed significant inhibitory effect on Naja naja and Bangarus caerulus venoms. (3) Of 17 plants screened, only M pudica showed 100% ability in neuralizing venom lethality. Study showed the potential use of M pudica as an antivenom agent of plant origin against five poisonous snake venoms found in Malaysia.
• Two new C-glycosylflavones from Mimosa pudica: Two new C-glycosylflavones were isolated from the whole plant of Mimosa pudica, and their structures were determined as 6,7,3?,4?-tetrahydroxyl-8-C-[?-l-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 ? 2)]-?-d-glucopyranosyl flavone (1), 5,7,3?,4?-tetrahydroxy-8-C[?-d-apiose-(1 ? 4)]-?-d-glycopyranosyl flavone (2).
• Chromoblastomycosis: Study isolated Fonsecaea from the thorns of M pudica and suggests it could be a natural source of infection for the fungus Fonsecaea pedrosoi.
• Seed Mucilage / Sustained-Release Excipient: Study showed the dissolution profile from formulation containing mucilage to drug in the proportion of 1:40 was found to be similar to the commercial sustained-release formulation of diclofenac.
• Anti-Depressant: Study suggests that M pudica produces antidepressant effect in rats with a profile similar to two tricyclic antidepressants.
• Anti-Malarial: Mimosine found to be an iron chelator acting on malarial bugs by preventing the replication of cells.
• Apoptotic: Mimosine also causes apoptosis and studied for treating ovarian cancer and other highly vascularized tumors.
• Anthelmintic: The Anthelmintic effect of Makahiya (Mimosa pudica) leaves Extract in Native Chicken (Gallus domesticus) naturally infected with Gastro-intestinal Parasites (Thesis)
• Anti-Hepatotoxic / Antioxidant: Study showed the co-administration of Mimosa pudica aqueous extract significantly lowered the level of lipid peroxidation in alcohol-fed mice.
• Anti-Hyperglycemic: Mimosa pudica is one of eight medicinal plants in an Ayuvedic herbal formulation, Ilogen-Excel, showing antihyperglycemic effect in STZ-induced diabetic rats.
• Nerve-Regenerative: Study showed Mimosa pudica extract possess nerve-regenerative potential in rats with sciatic nerve injury.
One more of the series of shots from the Museum. This one was a bit tricky though. I had light coming directly on the leaf from the other end, as in direct sunlight. I had to move away to face the tree truck but then now i ended up with lesser light. Cheap Canon lenses are not all that sharp unless you go smaller than f/7.1.
Finally i switched to manual, went to F/11 and fired the flash from the Canon Speedlite 430EX to evenly light up these leaves. Interestingly i'm getting to see how light has DoF here. The background from the leaves seems to have been darkened out in the bokeh.
Looks good on large
Canon EOS 400D with the Canon EF 75-300MM F/4-5.6 USM III. Manual, F/11 at 1/200th of a Second. Flash fired with the Canon Speedlite 430EX on manual 1/1.
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Grants Not Loans Protest, in the city of Hereford, in Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom. Date unknown, but circa October 1987 to circa June 1989.*
* The reason for this date range will be explained below.
About the photographs.
Those are British police motorcyclists whom have been assigned to escort the college students carrying out a peaceful march from the college to city centre which is approximately one mile in length, down a main road.
As those photographs were taken in the late 1980s, at that time they were wearing dark blue biker’s leather jumpsuits and only had bright yellow strips across their body. It was long before the full yellow jackets became common with British police motorcyclists.
Note the strip on the side of the bikes, below the word POLICE. In that era, British police cars were all white with an orange horizonal strip across the side of the cars, as well as motorbikes. This style was often nicknamed as the sandwich jam style, before the police replaced them with a blue and yellow chequered pattern all over the side of the vehicles, that were later known as the Battenburg markings.
The first photograph shows three of the police officers waiting for the start of the march, they were seen at a car park off Venns Lane in Hereford, which is now used as a private hospital called Nuffield Health Hospital. Local journalists were also at this car park, mostly getting ready.
The second photograph shows the police motorcyclist in front of the students. I can’t be sure if this police motorcyclist is one of the three seen in the other photograph, or is another officer. Here he is seen slowly riding his motorbike, with the students behind him, all going through Commercial Street, a mostly pedestrian only street, in city centre.
I took those photographs with my Minolta X-700 35mm film SLR camera and a standard 50mm lens, which I often bring with me when going to college. The film used was Ilford FP4.
What is this all about?
In 1985, while attending my last year at a deaf school, I told the hearing teacher, the visiting career advisor, and my family that I want to do photography as a job, and would like to apply for a proper college course studying photography.
But in those days, there were still discrimination against deaf people, and they advised me that I can’t do photography as a job because of my being deaf. I attempted to fight for my rights, and somehow ended up with a college course that is better than nothing.
This being a two days college course studying graphic design, with a three days work experience with a professional photographer as an assistant, and I started around September 1987 until around July 1989, as it was a two years course.
On that day: I was in my class at college, when I noticed an activity going on outside. As it was the later 1980s, there was no Twitter, no Facebook, nothing like that. Usually news travel by printing leaflets or by word of mouth, being the only deaf person in a class full of hearing people, nobody thought to tell me.
I went to my tutor and enquiry what is going on, and my tutor, thankfully being open minded to my being deaf, explained what it is all about. At that time the British government, under then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, had decided that funding to help students should be done by means of loans, which would need to be paid back by the students when they leave college and get jobs, not by grants. But students all over the UK are not happy with this, and are protesting against this idea.
That is why they’re saying ”Grants Not Loans.”
As I really want to do photography, not graphic design, I took this as an opportunity to practise my photography, by doing my first photojournalism kind of photography. Up until that time, most of the photography I did were landscape, street photography, still life, friends, and so on. I explained this to my tutor, and thankfully my tutor gave me permissions to leave class to cover this event.
I asked if I could have some more rolls of film, and the tutor agreed, so I grabbed as many as I could carry, and was off. I was lucky to find that it was only starting to build up, and that the march had not started yet.
I walked with the protesters all the way down the main road, from the college and into the city centre, which took about half hour or thereabouts, taking photos of the event, until reaching the end of the march.
After that, I went back to college, later I developed and printed my own photographs. Many years later, I decided to scan those prints using my Bother multi-faction printer/fax/scanner, and saved the images in my computer.
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Anemone hupehensis, Anemone hupehensis var. japonica, and Anemone × hybrida (commonly known as the Chinese anemone or Japanese anemone, thimbleweed, or windflower) are species of flowering herbaceous perennials in the family Ranunculaceae. Height is 1–1 m, leaves have three leaflets, flowers are 40–60 mm across, with 5-6 (or up to 20 in double forms) sculpted pink or white sepals and prominent yellow stamens, blooming from midsummer to autumn. These plants thrive best in shady areas and under protection of larger plants. 9559
The 1965 British Overseas Airways Corporation (better known as BOAC) bar tariff leaflet cover - anyone for a Martini Cocktail at 3s 6d? In the top corner can be seen the BOAC "Speedbird" symbol, designed for the airline's predecessor Imperial Aiways in 1932 by Theyre Lee-Elliott and that continued in use for British Airways, the sucessor company to BOAC until 1984.
This Active Sindy is a prototype and the ones actually sold were slightly different, both doll and ballet outfit.