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Entered in TMI’s Leaf Study challenge.
Taken at Dreaming Angels Studio in Conjunction with Unzipped Magazine
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Eight Mile River flows through Devil's Hopyard State Park in Connecticut. This rocky riverbed flows under a beautiful stone bridge at the entrance of the park by Chapman waterfalls.
Fatsia japonica (or False Castor Oil Plant).
The genus name “Fatsia” is derived from an ancient Japanese word, “eight”, referring to the plant’s eight lobes.
Incidentally, this is one the parents of the common tree ivy, and the resemblance between them in their leaves and fruits is quite striking.
Olympus EM1 + Olympus 12-50mm.
Orb-weaving Spider
Generally, orb-weaving spiders are three-clawed builders of flat webs with sticky spiral capture silk.
The building of a web is an engineering feat, begun when the spider floats a line on the wind to another surface. The spider secures the line and then drops another line from the center, making a "Y". The rest of the scaffolding follows with many radii of nonsticky silk being constructed before a final spiral of sticky capture silk.
The third claw is used to walk on the nonsticky part of the web.
Characteristically, the prey insect that blunders into the sticky lines is stunned by a quick bite, and then wrapped in silk. If the prey is a venomous insect, such as a wasp, wrapping may precede biting and/or stinging.
Many orb-weavers build a new web each day. Most orb-weavers tend to be active during the evening hours; they hide for most of the day. Generally, towards evening, the spider will consume the old web, rest for approximately an hour, then spin a new web in the same general location. Thus, the webs of orb-weavers are generally free of the accumulation of debris common to other species, such as black widow spiders.
Nikon, Sigma 180 2.8, 1/250 @ f8 ISO 800
I call this the octopus pole. It has eight arms carrying all the different lines. However, that is not what caused me to stop In the road on this wet cloudy day.
What I find unusual is that the lines cross the road to this pole, just so they can immediately cross back to where they started on the other side of the road again.
Does that make any sense?
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seen somewhere in Saskatchewan as we zoomed.
music by Ennio Morricone for the movie " The Hateful Eight" -
Created for The Award Tree's July 2022 challenge: Wet Work:
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Octopus, Swirls: pngwing.com.
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No not the exposure time but the time taken for the Suns light to reach Earth (in minutes) travelling at 671 million miles an hour!
Whitburn at dawn with some beautiful light between the rolling clouds.
"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness."
Saint Augustine
While admiring all the tall bamboo culms, I suddenly noticed a small movement on the surface. If you look closely you might just see an eight legged beauty. Hooray for Mother Nature and new gardens to explore!
St. Peter’s Square, Manchester.
Eight minutes later this young lady wandered back into my field of vision, this time going in the opposite direction.
Timing for this image was a little bit more difficult, to capture her face on (so to speak), I had to try and get the shot in-between obstacles placed in the Square itself; once she had passed this point I would have only seen the back of her and the umbrella.
She is still on her mobile phone and possibly still oblivious to her surroundings. The only difference in her position is her left hand has moved in holding the umbrella’s handle.
I would like to thank this young lady for being the subject of two of my images, but I don’t know who she is …. !