UPDATE: I think I finally discovered the actual species. According to this excellent site, it looks like it's a Cotton Harlequin Bug (Tectocoris diophthalmus).

I've never seen one of these before and apparently it's a Harlequin Beetle. I can't find much information or even the botanical name for it, so I did a search for quotes that referred to harlequins.

Imagine my delight when I found a quote from Battlestar Galactica! Here's the quote in full from Wikiquote:

Hybrid: Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force, the embryo becomes a fish though we don't enter until a plate, we're here to experience, evolve the little toe, atrophy, don't ask me how, I'll be dead in a thousand light years, thank you, thank you, genesis turns to its source, reduction occurs step wise though the essence is all one, end of line. FTL system check. Diagnostic functions within parameters repeats the harlequin, the agony exquisite, the colors run the path of ashes...

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Prallsville Mill, Stockton, New Jersey.

HDR, one exposure from RAW.

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Levels Adjusted & Combined.

A study of some parameters in red.

sliders sunday-- another gentle slide, changing the parameters and using the mirror option in picmonkey. am hoping this doesn't entice mother nature to bring more snowflakes!!...

(a little later) oh, the good news is that it appears that the snowstorm the meteorologists have been watching might not happen!!

the second shot of the series from the isar, the river through munich. this one in landscape format. not sure which one is better.

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Singapore Cityscape

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These parameters are difficult to work with because the preview tells you very little about what will appear on the screen. You have to put in the time to run up samples on the main rendering screen and. or on the new MutaGen tab. I'm looking for a nice image of a little girl to add to this. I'll let you know when I find just the right thing.

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Functional parameters vary from manifestation to manifestation (put more simply; all deaths are personal, and the limitations between ghosts are based on how a person lived and died). - Handbook for the Recently Deceased

details and landmarks at ahchoo-e!.

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Sunrise on the beach of El Saler.

The night before I consulted the necessary parameters and all were favorable while very strange to be November 21:

- Sunrise Time 7:50 h.

- Cloudy sky.

- Temperature 20 degrees.

- Winds west around 40 km / h.

I decided to go to a nearby location such as this beautiful beach.

I just was amazed, there were still 15 minutes before dawn and the entire sky was stained deep red, reflected in seawater and developing as blood.

The wind was so strong that I had to hold my hands even a tripod to prevent camera shake.

A light show that lasted a few minutes.

I hope you like it. Have a nice Tuesday. :)

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Parameters will be on my art page if you waould like to download them. Created with JWildfire 5.0 and edited with Topaz Glow in Photoshop.

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My dreamed sunrise in the Delta of the river Ebro -Tarragona-.

The previous day, a local man explained to me a perfect location for enjoy the photograph of this beautiful land.

I consulted the parameters that night and everything was correct to travel there.

The truth is that I was impressed to get to that place, I put on my waders running to get me asap and do not lose the time.

The sun had not yet risen, the water reached my waist, good temperature, soft wind, a lot of clouds and fog surrounding the horizon, made the conditions were the best.

Many photos I've seen of this place is that in photoshop blur the horizon line with the clone tool, but there was fog and with long exposure, completely erased.

It seemed that I was doing a photo shoot in the same heaven.

I think for many more times to return to this place, I can never find anything so perfect.

This is the photo shoot I most enjoyed in recent years, have a set of at least seven impressive images.

On the technical side, say that I only used a neutral gradient three steps filter.

I hope you like it. Have a nice Sunday. :)

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I tried to get as much as a naturalistic shot as I could, within the parameters of a Zoo. I think it came out OK.

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taken in südtirol during a skiing holiday in january.

this is a pano, made from 6 shots, stiched with hugin.

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ISO 200, 36sec, f/25, 33mm

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My 'interesting' long exposures!; www.flickr.com/search/?q=long+exposure&w=21783072%40N...

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Digital work, designed and generated by digital filters and

parameters chosen by me, created with the name of WORMOD, which is

an acronym I used in RPGs, and it means: Wizard Of the Rain Master

Of Darkness, other similar compositions, I sign them with other

aliases such as Anubi, Anubis, Anpu, Inepu, Inpw and many others.

Good vision.

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at London Airshow field, London Ontario Canada

This is a simple variant on someone else's parameters which I thought might be more interesting with a few simple changes. The room is pentagonal and the swirl is embedded at a certain level of the floor. One of the things I found interesting was the paramer for the doors, which I had not seen before, but which is in the parameter sets that come with the program.

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HDR Single RAW

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A small inlet on Selby Creek creates its own ice pattern.

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