Painted lady

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Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the painted lady, or formerly in North America as the cosmopolitan. Wikipedia

The colorist movement, which took place in the '60s, are responsible for the bright colors of the Seven Painted Ladies. During the second World War, many homes were painted in cheap gray paint and the city looked drab. So a local artist, Butch Kradum, began painting homes in bright blues and greens and it caught on.

Painted Hills, Wheeler County, Oregon, United States of America

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Standing there, I want to be next to you.

At present, in the past, I wanted to stand there.

This decisive battle is always, always

dyed in red.

Give up on giving up.

The world is completely becoming your comrade,

searching for the reason of it's birth.

Every time, from somewhere in this sky.

BiSH / PAiNT it BLACK

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The Painted Hills in South Australia taken from the air. These remote amazing hills are surrounded by flat dry desert and lie in Anna Creek - the world's largest cattle station. The station is some 24,000 square kilometres (or bigger than Wales if you prefer a tangible scale).

A 2-page spread I did in March. Acrylic paint, collage, ink and white marker.

peeling paint above garage door

A female Painted Bunting enjoying my backyard.

Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert, July 2021.

Finally - a Painted skimmer! They're usually our first skimmers to fly early in Spring. So good to see him at the wetlands. North Georgia

p.s. also the first Beast of the year, and a foty Yellow-sided skimmer - rare

Painted Lady butterfly enjoying the Ragwort flowers. Happy Wing Wednesday!

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This week's Big Excitement for me ! My first excursion with my newly delivered camera took me to our nearest field and it was being harvested. A combine harvester - Oh JOY ! You can see the dust it's kicking up over there on the right near the trees. The driver saw me taking photos and kindly drove down the field again and right past me, smiled and gave me a 'thumbs up'. Isn't it wonderful when people are so kind? Made my day ! (That may be my next upload).

The clouds were beautiful and I loved the lines the newly cut stubble made, so I painted this scene in Topaz Impression 2. I do hope you like it !

As always, thank you so much for your comments, faves or for just looking. Happy weekend to you all ... I hope you find similar kindness and friendliness in everyone you meet.

YOUR kindness has meant this image reached Explore number 79 on 13 August 2016 - thank you all so very much !

Macro Mondays: Painted

Vanessa cardui

First of the year

A remarkable sunset accentuates the colors of the Painted Desert. Captured at the Little Painted Desert County Park, just north of Winslow AZ

Thanks for all the faves and kind comments!

A strong westerly wind was blowing over Langstone Harbour, Hampshire yesterday evening at sunset so no reflection around so decided to have a go at some long exposures over the old rotten posts which are the remains of the old Billy Line Station.

Quite like the effect in the sky from the long exposure which looks like it's been painted(badly)!

150 second exposure using a Lee "Big Stopper" 10 stop ND filter + a 0.9 ND grad over the sky.

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Porcelain egg box filled with goodies. A hand painted egg.

Taken at RSPB Lochwinnoch, Scotland.

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Thema:“Paint“…..malen….

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Bird Rookery Swamp

notice anything about the pattern in the chipped paint on this wooden cat's nose? i didn't until i got it up on the laptop screen!!

this is one possibility for the macromonday theme for 3/11 for imperfection.

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its nose is less than a half an inch from side to side

I was thrilled to see that my local Painted Bunting has found a lady and she is hard at work building a nest! Hopefully she will be a mother soon if she isn’t already one.

Hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day!

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Been trying my hand at some ICM (intentional camera movement).

(You could say the 'slide' was in-camera ;))

MACRO MONDAYS "PAINTED" theme.

See full size image below, the small squares are 1".

I just thought I'd upload one last picture of this fading Painted Lady to make it a hattrick to finish off this series. She's still Beautiful in my eyes and I'm pleased to have captured her...

thanks for comments faves views and invites much appreciated

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument,Oregon.

The black soil is lignite that was vegetative matter that grew along the floodplain. The grey coloring is mudstone, siltstone, and shale.The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was warm and humid. An abundance of fossil remains of early horses, camels, and rhinoceroses in the Painted Hills unit makes the area particularly important to vertebrate paleontologists. (Wikipedia)

Scanned from an Ektachrome slide. Last in the Painted Hills series.

Looking Close on Friday theme: Paint

Thank you everyone for your kind comments and favs. All are greatly appreciated. HLCoF

Western Painted Turtles at Busch CA, 2/5/17

I haven't seen a Painted skimmer in a few weeks. These are often our first skimmers on the wing as early as March & can fly into July.

Our rain is supposed to wrap up but we have an Evil East Wind with clouds today - and it rained again last night. Next 3 days are supposed to be sunny & nice ...

"I see a red door and I want it painted black

No colours anymore, I want them to turn black

I see the girls walk by, dressed in their summer clothes

I have to turn my head until my darkness goes..."

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This little painted bunting is down low dining on last season's dry seeds. Unusual for this time of year when they dine mostly on insects.

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I see a red door

And I want it painted black

No colors anymore

I want them to turn black

I see the girls walk by

Dressed in their summer clothes

I have to turn my head

Until my darkness goes

I see a line of cars

And they're all painted black

With flowers and my love

Both never to come back

I've seen people turn their heads

And quickly look away

Like a newborn baby

It just happens everyday

I look inside myself

And see my heart is black

I see my red door

I must have it painted black

Maybe then, I'll fade away

And not have to face the facts

It's not easy facing up

When your whole world is black

No more will my green sea

Go turn a deeper blue

I could not foresee this thing

Happening to you

If I look hard enough

Into the setting sun

My love will laugh with me

Before the morning comes

I see a red door

And I want it painted black

No colors anymore

I want them to turn black

I see the girls walk by

Dressed in their summer clothes

I have to turn my head

Until my darkness goes

I wanna see it painted

Painted black

Black as night

Black as coal

I wanna see the sun

Blotted out from the sky

I wanna see it painted, painted, painted

Painted black, yeah