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... for a happy blue Monday !
Globe thistle / Ruthenische Kugeldistel (Echinops ritro)
in a cottage garden in Boll bei Hechingen, Baden-Württemberg
Star-shaped flowers shoot out from the center of a decorative allium plant. I have always admired allium flowers (alliums? allia?) for their dramatic, globular shapes, but up close they are even more startling, like mini universes at the moment of creation. Seen at the New York Botanical Garden, the Bronx, NYC -- May 18, 2018
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
This photo of a tiny European Skipper butterfly was taken on 23 July 2015, at Darryl Teskey's property. These unusual butterflies have such large eyes : )
"The eyes of Skippers are different from those of other butterflies. They have a space between the cones and rods which allows light from each ommatidium to spill into neighbouring rods, effectively increasing their resolution and sensitivity. As a result Skippers can fly very accurately from one spot to another. This different type of eye structure is one of the reasons why taxonomists place them in a different super-family to all other butterflies - the Hesperioidea."
Source: www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Anatomy.htm
On this day, five of us spent the day botanizing the land belonging to Darryl Teskey, SW of Calgary and W of Millarville (maybe a 40-minute drive from Calgary). This was the first time I had been there and I'm so glad I was invited to go - I would have missed all sorts of things, including a family of Ruffed Grouse and several fungi. These Grouse were the rare rufous-morph, and we startled them when we were walking through the forest in their direction. Usually, you don't see Grouse because they are so well-hidden. When you get fairly close (sometimes very close) to them, they suddenly "explode" from the tangle of shrubs and plants of the forest floor, making ones heart beat fast! We were taken by surprise when we came across a nearby statue of Saint Francis of Assisi, who is known as the patron saint of animals and the environment. A nice idea, I thought.
Our walk took us over grassland and through forest, many places treacherous with so many fallen logs which were often barely visible. I have never, ever seen so many tiny Skipper butterflies - there must have been hundreds or even thousands of these bright orange beauties that were flying or perched on flowers of every colour.
Fortunately, the rain stayed away until we started driving back to Calgary. Quite a lot of black clouds, reminding me of the tornado that passed through Calgary just the day before (22 July 2015).
Our purpose, as always, was to find and list everything that we saw - wildflowers, trees, grasses, birds, insects, fungi, etc.. Our leader then compiles an extensive list of our finds and this is later sent to the landowner, along with any photos that we might take. Always a win/win situation, as the landowner then has a much better idea of just what is on his property, and we have a most enjoyable day.
Actually this was just a Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata having a good old splash around in the water to give the feathers a thorough clean.
I narrowly escaped being washed off the rocks while shooting on this day. 10 metre high waves had been forecast. Respect the ocean!!
...taken at Istanbul Modern... artwork called "80SW/Flying Garden/Air-Port-City" by Tomas Saraceno...
Istanbul, Turkey...
This is the part of the coneflower holding myriad disc florets. Collectively it is called the disk or capitulum. The disc florets are the fertile reproductive parts - pistil and stamens which will form the seeds. The few yellow parts in the image are the anthers of the flower. And you did not even know the question, did you? Well, now you've seen the naughty bits of the purple coneflower. Happy?
Exploding cola can shot with an air rifle. Can balanced on batteries and shot over black glass. Shot taken from the front following the path of the pellet.
flash info - 7 x yongnou 560 III's @ 1/128
Rear Left @ 45 deg
Rear Right @ 45 deg
Centre above and in front
2 x Right front stacked @ 45 deg
2 x Left front stacked @ 45 deg
Large Engraved Stuart Crystal Air Twist Wine Goblet
Date : c1925
Period : George V
Origin : Wordsely, England
Colour : Clear
Bowl : Drawn conical, engraved with a band of vines with hanging grapes
Stem : Air twist consisting of two pairs of spiral threads
Foot : Conical
Pontil : Plain
Type : Lead
Size : 19.3cm tall with a 9.7cm bowl and an 8.6cm foot
interesting effect from autostitch with this one, the cups spin in the breeze so the bits moved between shots used in the stitch, which created some interesting ghosting and some disjointed arms which (for a nice change) add to the impact of a stitched imaged rather than make it an instant failure...
at least.. thats what i think.
some more conventional shots of this thing are next in my stream.