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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
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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.
“Sand Patterns” — Patterns in sand dunes, Death Valley National Park.
Our main photographic targets on our late-February trip to Death Valley were Lake Manly and the impressive wildflower bloom. But we did schedule one morning for a visit to the sand dunes. We arrived well before sunrise — it was still to dark to see our way into the dunes. Unfortunately, this was not going to be a morning for grand dune photographs, since morning overcast blocked the sunlight. So instead we focused on more intimate subjects — plants and flowers, the morning traces of the passage of wildlife, and the textures of windblown sand.
I’ll break with the tradition of the these posts and write a bit about a technical photographic topic. A challenge of photographing the sand is that, unless you photograph straight down or fine a suitably slanted bit of sand, depth of field is a problem. I use a solution that surprisingly few photographers seem to apply. I have a tilt/shift lens adapter for my landscape camera that lets me attach a medium format zoom lens and use the adapter’s movements to angle the pane of focus to match the surface of the dunes.
Computer says 'no!'
End of the day patterns on Lake Fehr, Uintah Mountains, Utah, USA.
Initial edits in View NX2, further adjustments to sharpness, tone mapping and contrast in Corel Paintshop. A bit unnatural result, but I was more interested in the patterns and big picture than in fidelity to tones and contrast.
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.