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This is the very first batch of eggs we hatched in our new still air incubator. We started 30 eggs and ended up with 18 live chicks at the end, which we were pretty happy with for a first time.
*View this large and think about the developement of a chick and how amazing life is: flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=804751446&size=l
I didn't hold the egg the whole time - I just didn't have the patience to let it hatch without me seeing! The feel of a baby chick moving in a half broken egg and peeping is unforgettable. I was getting pretty good at taking pics with one hand - until it was my left. That camera is made for a right hand : )
This is the very first batch of eggs we hatched in our new still air incubator. We started 30 eggs and ended up with 18 live chicks at the end, which we were pretty happy with for a first time.
I've practiced a bit cross-hatching. It's been a while since the last time. It could be better, but I think, it's okay.
My outline reference was a picture from a colouring book, I've found in my cupboard.
Tools: Staedtler pigment liner 0.05 and 0.1 and a page in my sketchbook.
The people brood their anger as the hen broods her eggs, but the hen will get the lives from her sacrifice.
R.V.
illustration I did for issue 19 of Monster!
www.amazon.com/Monster-19-Tim-Paxton/dp/1515047407/ref=pd...
So here is a gallery of 33 photos. They were all taken at Langstone Harbour in Hampshire between April 24th and May 4th 2014. The swan was nesting about 15 metres away across a mill stream, and the reeds meant that there were only really 2 spots you could photograph from. I used a Nikon D5200 with a Tamron 70-300 lens, handheld. I am very proud of them despite any technical shortcomings - it's avery rare delight to be this close to the beginning of their beautiful lives.
The baby harlequin hibiscus bugs started hatching today. The eggs were laid 3 weeks ago and the mother stood guard all that time. Amazing!
taking the shapes from a double page in my book and reducing them to their simplest geometric forms, filling them up with tiny tiny time consuming hatching.
This is thje first sample for the corn bale to go in the Corn Stubble picture. I am not sure if this is the effect I want. I like the hatching at the base of the 'bale' but am not so sure about the effect on the bale itself. I will do another sample.
A sequence showing a coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) emerging from an egg with yoke sac still attached. Washington.
Nifty 5" Earthshock Cyberman tears free of his clingfilm womb.
Lighting: Ikea desk-lamp with red card positioned just below camera lens to act as reflector.
An espresso macchiato is a nice alternative to a normal cuppa joe some mornings. Sitting in a coffee house before work and meditating on the world does more good for me than any single cup of anything would.
This is what I'm guessing Toothless from "How to train your dragon" would have looked like when he hatched from his egg. Everything is edible. Toothless himself was sculpted with modelling chocolate and I used piping gel to give the gooey effect down the sides
Another spider hatching in the basement! If you compare this to the earlier picture you'll notice that there were three cocoons and now there's four. Momma spider is being pretty reproductive!
This is the Common House Spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, weaving their cob webs in the homes of many Americans in the US. My basement seems to be a particularly suitable habitat for them apparently. They are completely harmless for humans or pets, unless of course you consider the other bugs in your house "pets" rather than pests. There's often an impressive graveyard of insect carnage accumulating under a female's web over time. Another indication that there is an inhabited web above are little black dots - presumably spider excretions - on the surface below.
The adult females can live for over a year. Each female can produce more than 15 egg sacs over her lifetime, each of them hatching hundreds of baby spiderlings. The babies stay in their momma's web for a few days before moving out. At any given time, I can probably find at least 10 females in their webs, tending to dozens of egg cocoons, often with one or two clouds of freshly hatched spiderlings visible. Many of the mature females will have 4-5 cocoons in their webs at one time if you leave them undisturbed for a while. That probably means there are thousands of these spiders spread out over my basement.