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This is from several minutes after the video of the process of getting into its pupa state and almost an two hours after its "J" pose. You can still see some coloration from the caterpillar's body but also the 'shield' at the bottom eventually pulls up. This Swamp milkweed leaf is about head high in the thicket of volunteers.
Macro Mondays 'complementary colours' theme.
I do love the patterns in malachite, and here the use of flash brings them out well.
Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral. This opaque, green banded mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system, and most often forms botryoidal, fibrous, or stalagmitic masses, in fractures and spaces, deep underground.
Malachite, with its beautiful, rich green color, leaves no doubt of its importance as a jewel. Its opaque strength and power demands respect, mesmerizing the viewer. Yet the movement, flow and energy in its lines, circles and designs soothe and welcome. It is spiritually inviting.
Inherent in Malachite is lighter green eye-shaped forms or bands on its surface. These "eye stones," believed to enhance great visionary powers, were used to ward off negative happenings. They were stones of security and protection for children, and their most remarkable association today is the ability to warn of impending danger by breaking into pieces.
This malachite pyramid measures 1.5" across the base
This is another option for today's Macro Mondays theme "Speckled", but I am not sure if this can be considered speckled.
OK......I am a sucker for sensuous patterns, especially in B&W
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I know this taken in flat light , but I just love the pattern in the feathers on the underside of this juvie bald eagle.
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
-The Little Prince, by the French author, airplane pilot, and war hero Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
Woke up to a white world with closed roads. We had an unusual 8-10 inches of snow in Alabama. A February record.
Beautiful patterning created by the tide and waves in a sloping area of the beach sand at Clam Harbour Beach. This is a vertical version of the same photo posted earlier.
This looked to be an old restaurant of sorts - found in south west Iowa in one of the small dying communities.
I want the curtains for my house :>)
UN PARTICOLARE DELLA CITTA' VECCHIA.
Il centro storico di Valencia coincide con il distretto Ciutat Vella: in valenciano vuol dire "città vecchia" e comprende i più importanti monumenti storici. All’interno della Ciutat Vella sorge il famoso Barrio del Carmen, cuore della vita cittadina e centro del divertimento notturno.
Tra i quartieri del centro storico ricordiamo La Seu, zona di Valencia in cui sorge la sede storica della Cortes Valencianas, l’organo legislativo della Comunità valenciana. Ne La Xerea invece spicca la Basilica de la Virgen de los Desamparados.
CANON EOS 600D con ob. SIGMA 70-300 f./4-5,6 DG
This is a photo of patterns in a rock cliff at Mavillette Beach that suggest a pareidolia shaman figure.