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Bruiser Billy. Quiet, big head to butt you with, and large ass feet to kick you with. Won't back down from any fight.
SERIES: REDISCOVERING MEXICO CITY
A luminous sculpture is made up of stacked car wheels at the museum of San Ildefonso, Mexico City.
This particular piece was made by Geysell Capetillo Álvarez.
Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
Canon 60D. The Canon 8-15mm f4.0L lens was a friend's I used for a few minutes. What a trip. That would be some lens on a full-frame camera!
This was supposed to be a quick, 2-3 hour project. Instead it turned into a 15 hour marathon. Worth it, though.
OK so not totally true it's a mystery, but isn't it a neat magical metallic package? It's the pupa of the Common Australian Crow butterfly, Euploea core, whose shot is alongside this one, hanging underneath a leaf. The pupae can be either silver or gold in colour.
To see more of my Aussie butterflies album click here
www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegypsy/albums/72157651150719091
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Posting pattern review and blog post shortly...
For now, this is a dress I have wanted to sew since last summer. Now it is too cold to wear it! Cynthia Rowley for Simplicity pattern 2584. The front slit is insanely low and I will prob. sew in a lace modesty panel for some... you know... modesty.
Here's the pattern review. And it's blogged here.
Metallic menace at first sight,
Look closer at it,
Surely you see more,
I mean apart from energy saving,
A lot more can be seen through this metallic door,
Beauty up close or far away,
Always standing prominent,
To reassure sceptics along the way,
So reconsider,
When examining one of these,
Perhaps if you get down,
Right down on your knees,
You'll be able to see up close,
One would hope,
And admire the wind like an open sea
(Tom Kempson)
Metallic Starling
Aplonis metallica
January 13th, 2023
Brinsmead, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1L IS USM lens
One of my favourite species from Far North Queensland, the fantastic Metallic Starling.
These incredibly coloured birds migrate from New Guinea to Far North Queensland each year for the wet season to breed. They construct incredible communal nests in specific trees, with some locations housing hundreds of nests all together. As you can see in this image, the nest are built right on top of each other & can cover the whole tree, like a sprawling high-rise of Metallic Starling apartments!
As you can imagine the noise (& sometimes smell!) is something else! There are often squabbles amongst neighbouring birds & sometimes they will try & steal nesting materials from one another! It can be quite chaotic.
Amazingly, each year these birds return to the same trees they have nested in previously to breed & raise their young, before heading back to New Guinea.
What a metallic thread can do...From my blog post "How to stitch with metallic threads" here www.mrxstitch.com/how-to-stitch-with-metallic-threads/