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The Painted Hills cover an area of 20 kilometres by 10 kilometres. Geologist Marg Sprigg says these richly coloured natural sculptures have formed over millions of years. The land was originally flat then lifted up by tectonic movement, and rivers have cut through the tabletop forms, leaving the hills.
The water from the rivers also dissolved minerals, such as iron and manganese, which have oxidised into the stunning reds, yellows and whites that can be seen today.
The painted frogfish Antennarius pictus) grows up to 30 cm (12 in) long. Like other members of its family, it has a globulous, extensible body, with soft skin is covered with small dermal spinules. Its skin is covered partially with few, small, wart-like protuberances, some variably shaped, scab-like blotches and many small eye spots (ocelli) which look like sponges holes. Its large prognathous mouth allows it to consume prey its same size.
The coloring of the body is extremely variable because they always tend to match their living environments. Frogfishes have the capacity to change coloration and pigment pattern in few weeks. However, the dominant coloration goes from white to black, passing through a whole range of related nuances such as cream, pink, yellow, red, and brown, usually with circular eye spots darker than the background color and/or with saddles and blotches. Some specimens can easily be confused with Antennarius maculatus.
These characteristics can help to separate the two close species: usually, A. maculatus has red or orange margins on all fins, and sometimes a spike of the saddle blotch starts posterior to the eye, numerous warts on the skin, andfew or no ocellis; A. pictus has also three eye spots on its caudal fin.
Juveniles can have a dark background color with small yellow spots. (Wikipedia)
Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Macro Mondays -- "Painted" theme
This is a macro shot of a hand painted porcelain doll. The head is about 20 cm tall and 15 cm across though the portion shown here is much smaller than that. Just for some context, the mouth is about 1 cm across.
I was surprised at how creepy look this shot turned out!!
Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui
The Painted Lady is a long-distance migrant, which causes the most spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland.
Each year, it spreads northwards from the desert fringes of North Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia, recolonising mainland Europe and reaching Britain and Ireland. In some years it is an abundant butterfly, frequenting gardens and other flowery places in late summer.
Painted lady butterflies have a pale buffy-orange background colour to the upper wings. The forewings have black tips marked with white spots; the hindwings have rows of black spots. The undersides are pale with blue eyespots.
Painted ladies do not hibernate in Britain; instead they migrate to and from northern Africa. They can arrive in early spring, but late May and June are more usual. They are fairly common across Britain, numerous in some years.
Females lay their small, green eggs on a range of species, such as nettles and mallows, but thistles are the general favourite. When the caterpillars hatch they begin to eat the underside of the leaf. As they grow, each constructs a tent of folded leaves fastened with silk.
Caterpillars pupate and remain suspended in a large tent of leaves until the adults emerge in August and September. The whole British population dies or emigrates to Africa in the autumn.
Caterpillars are black, speckled with tiny white spots and have a yellow stripe down each side. They are covered in spines.
I'm Glad the Sky Is Painted Blue
by Unknown Author
I'm glad the sky is painted blue,
And the earth is painted green,
With such a lot of nice fresh air
All sandwiched in between.
Technical details of the image:
This image consists of:
* An image of cloud against the blue sky taken before it’s starting to sprinkle.
* An image produced from focus stacking (using ZereneStacker) 26 macro shots of a paint brush.
The final image was produced by combining the above two images masked and styled in Photoshop.
Enjoy!
The painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) is the most widespread native turtle of North America. Painted turtle: It lives in relatively slow-moving fresh waters, from southern Canada to northern Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They have been shown to prefer large wetlands with long periods of inundation and emergent vegetation. This species is one of the few that is specially adapted to tolerate freezing temperatures for extended periods of time due to an antifreeze-like substance in their blood that keeps their cells from freezing. The adult painted turtle is 13–25 cm (5.1–9.8 in) long; the male is smaller than the female. The turtle's top shell is dark and smooth, without a ridge. Its skin is olive to black with red, orange, or yellow stripes on its extremities. The subspecies can be distinguished by their shells: the eastern has straight-aligned top shell segments; the midland has a large gray mark on the bottom shell; the western has a red pattern on the bottom shell.
Painted Lady Butterfly on Purple Butterfly Bush - Morgan County, Alabama - 2020 - Frost Advisory out for north Alabama tonight. There were not many butterflies in our backyard today.
This cool bird was from my trip to Arizona last month. While following it around and taking shots, I actually had no idea what this bird was.
I found it after accidentally following a cattle-trail at Patagonia Lake State Park, not knowing that I had lost the "people trail." Getting lost is good sometimes.
I only saw a couple of these on my trip to the Southeast, but thankfully this one sat still for a brief moment.
Phinizy Swamp Nature Park (Augusta, GA)
A painted lady butterfly, the one butterfly species that has been abundant here this fall (not counting all the little skippers).
The painted lady (Vanessa cardui) is the most widespread of all butterflies in the world. It is found throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and Central America. In most years, the painted lady moves north out of the deserts of northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. to temporarily colonize the United States and Canada south of the Arctic. Periodically, enormous migrations from these deserts inundate areas of the country, so it can be locally very abundant at times.
Source and more info: hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/painted-lady-butterfly-v...
You may have heard about California's "superbloom" - vast fields and bursts of wildflowers everywhere. Turns out, it's good for the Painted Lady butterfly migration as well. Hundreds, thousands, millions of them are heading from near the Mexican border to our Pacific Northwest. Finally they found my yard, which is just bursting with color. This one lighted on a bloom of sea lavender. Mostly, I see Monarchs come through here, but the Painted Ladies are only occasional and just darned special. I hung in my yard for about an hour today and watched and photographed them as they flitted silently from flower to flower. What a joy indeed.
It's been a while since I posted a landscape photo, so after finding this shot during my archive dive, I decided it was time for one.
This is a section of the Painted Hills unit of Oregon's John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.
The Painted Hills in Oregon are colorful due to oxidized mineral deposits in volcanic ash layers. The colors are created from a combination of elements like iron, aluminum, and magnesium.
Red layers: Iron-rich laterite soil that formed in tropical climates. The iron in the laterite reacts with oxygen to create rust-colored layers.
Yellow layers: Iron and magnesium oxides that formed in drier, cooler climates.
Black layers: Lignite, the fossilized remains of plants that grew along floodplains.
Grey layers: Mudstone, siltstone, and shale.
The black spots are manganese nodules
And doing a fine job of keeping the sidewalk clear of it!
Olympus XA2 on Fuji 200
Los Angeles, Southern California
Jan 2012
Looking for other butterflies....so far painted lady butterflies are all that’s around in CA. Maybe when it gets warmer.......
The colors of this area will change with the position of the sun, last rainfall, temperature etc. These photos were taken after rainfall the night before.
Painted Hills, is one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, located in Wheeler County, Oregon. It totals 3,132 acres (12.67 km2) and is located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Mitchell, Oregon. The Painted Hills are listed as one of the Seven Wonders of Oregon. Painted Hills is named after the colorful layers of its hills corresponding to various geological eras, formed when the area was an ancient river floodplain.
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.
Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) photographed while kayaking in the LaPlatte River in Shelburne, VT.
Painted lady (Vanessa cardui) butterfly sipping nectar from some flower.
Rusałka osetnik (Vanessa cardui) spijająca nektar z jakiegoś kwiatu.