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These cactus spines were back lit by the early sun this morning, and I decided to document them because I'm a big fan of back lighting.
Lighting. I used a hand held Yongnuo flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box in front of the flower for fill light. With out the strobe the cactus went very dark since my camera was exposing for the back lit spines. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N
Other succulent and cactus pictures that I've taken can be seen in my creatively titled Cactus and Succulents album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157633383093236
I've photographed a lot of plants and flowers, because they're all around us, work cheap, and never complain. I have an album of these images with over 1200 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
The spines of the Smokey Mountains near the chimneys. This area was ravaged by fire last year but seems to be recovering nicely. Fall colors making there way into the valleys below.
Rabbit and the Spine from the group Steam Powered Giraffe ~ www.steampoweredgiraffe.com/
A species of cactus in the subfamily Opuntioideae of the plant family Cactaceae. They usually grow branches up to one foot tall with white flowers. Propagation is usually through cuttings. Stem segments easily break away and will root without special treatment. Plants may also be grown from seeds.
They originate in Argentina, but are cultivated in outdoor landscaping in warm desert climates such as Phoenix, Arizona.
Orgue of Spines
Sea urchin (Echinoidea) – La Lauve – Cap d’Antibes – France
A forest of sharpened tips, this sea urchin is both armor and offering.
A cathedral of living needles, it dances motionless beneath the sea.
Its blood-red skin, its golden spines, all tremble with hidden life.
Between light and matter, its chaos becomes a pattern,
its disorder, a symphony of forms.
Before the lens, it is both creature and structure.
Once again, nature has sculpted the living,
drawing deep from its primal creative instinct.
I captured this underwater image not without difficulty —
the urchin was sheltered beneath a rock, hidden from the light.
It was a challenge to position the strobes around my Nikon D800E, sealed in its Aquatica housing.
Sometimes, you have to trust the moment, persist,
and adapt to the wild’s resistance in order to reveal its secret beauty.
Nikon D800E, Aquatica housing, Sea&Sea YS-D1 flash, F/9, 1/125 s, ISO 100, 105 mm focal length.
"The Spined assassin bug is found across Canada, throughout the United States and into northern Mexico. It hangs out in sunny grasslands and agricultural fields, where it feeds on the adults, larvae/nymphs, and eggs of a wide variety of insects – crop pests and “good bugs” alike these.
It feeds in the time-honored bug fashion – puncturing its prey with its sharp “beak,” injecting saliva that softens its prey’s innards (“external digestion”), and then slurping out the liquefied tissue. It often waits vertically, head down, on flowers. Goldenrod is a common perch in fall."
Information from: COLLEGE OF LETTERS & SCIENCE
Field Station, 2022 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee website
January 18, 2016
Fencing along the dunes at Crosby Beach.
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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O. pycnantha is a rare species that's endemic to Baja California Sur where it occurs only on Isla Magdalena, Isla Santa Margarita and the adjacent coastline of mainland southern Baja.
It's viciously spined and indeed the name pycnantha means strong-spined
If you look close, you can see the spine on one leaf (or blade) is growing through the flesh of the other. Self-harming agave!
UC Davis Arboretum, November, 2022.
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a xc15-45mm power zoom kit lens--with a raynox dcr-250 close-focusing diopter
The spines of all 10 books.
Designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. See the Penguin Blog for more information.