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First of year White-faced Ibis in perfect light to see all the iridescent colors. Craven, Saskatchewan, Canada. 30 April 2023
Link between water and air,
Earth repels you.
Light touches you only to shift into iridescence
Upon your body and wings.
Louise Bogan
Green Heron
Everglades National Park, FL
Sunshine can really bring out the beautiful colors of a bird's plumage.
Thanks for viewing!
Turkeys are one of many birds with iridescent feathers. The iridescence really shows on bright days when the sunlight shines directly on the bird.
The elegance of the plumage of a Black-billed Magpie stands out in this portrait, as well as the iridescence on some feathers. This individual was seen in Cypress Hills Provincial Park in southeastern Alberta, Canada.
Fotografía de diente de león tomada al atardecer del día 15 de abril, disfrutando del atardecer otoñal con cámara Nikon D3500
Photograph of dandelions taken at sunset on April 15, enjoying the autumn sunset with a Nikon D3500 camera
Ancient Roman Glass Jars with iridescence.
The iridescence visible on the surface is due to the glassy structure reacting with the water in the soil in which it was buried to form very fine corroded layers.
Iridescent Roman Glass:Iridescence is the rainbow-like effect that changes according to the angle from which glass is viewed or the angle of incidence of the source of light.
in flew an adult, never far away from the youngins' ... beautiful iridescence showing on this adult.
This male, or Tom, wild turkey was trying to impress the ladies that were in the flock. I was pretty impressed with the amazing feather detail and iridescence.
When I saw Violet-capped Woodnymph in Brazil, I knew it had to be a lifer since I had never before travelled in its range, which encompasses the southeastern part of that country as well as parts of Paraguay and Argentina. I saw this male feeding at Eco Lodge Itororó above the city of Nova Friburgo in Rio de Janeiro State.
This image shows a European Shag in the classic wing-drying stance necessary after being in the water searching for fish (mostly thought to be due to ineffective preen glands). This species can dive to depths of over 60 metres (200 feet). The plumage has a beautiful iridescence in the right light. This individual was seen at Arnarstapi, a small town on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in the Vesturland region of Iceland.
I love the sparkling iridescence of this blue butterfly!
The same principle behind soap bubbles applies to butterfly wings. Their wings, however, amplify the effects of iridescence because they have many more layers for the light to pass through and thus many more opportunities for the light waves to reflect and magnify one another.
Though small, butterfly wings are covered by thousands of microscopic scales, split into two to three layers -- thus their Greek order name, Lepidoptera, meaning scaled wings. In turn, each scale has multiple layers separated by air. Rather than having just the constructive interference from the top and bottom layer that you have in a bubble, the many, equally spaced layers of butterfly wings create multiple instances of constructive interference.
Heliconius doris
The orange flower is Psiguria tarasiensis or Forest Cucumber.
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
We have been trying to capture different possible looks of the glossy ibis in shade and light to show off its beauty. Then, the ibis in breeding plumage, in the Viera Florida wetlands, gave us this image. We realized that the possibilities were unlimited.
Believe the bird showed us this image to get rid of us after a couple of photoshoots. 😀
C'est au soleil qu'il est à son plus beau et qu'on apprécie son iridescence.
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It is in the sun that it is particularly beautiful and that I appreciate its iridescence.
An old 1973 VW beetle, with amazing paint.
Peeling paint, rust, iridescence.
I used to drive one of these. You had to open the window to get the door to close, it was so airtight.
Beautiful Iridescence - Common Grackle at Bombay Hook NWR.
It is difficult to capture the very beautiful and colorful iridescent sheen of these common birds, but interestingly I photographed this grackle in deep shadow, which seemed to show up the wonderful iridescence
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Hummingbirds come in many sizes, shapes, and colours, and Swallow-tailed Hummingbird is unusual even in that dazzling variety of birds. It is large, it is colourful, and to top it off it has that long, deeply-forked tail. This fantastic bird was at Casa Tukani, operated by Irmãos Mello Birding Tours, in the small city of Guapimirim in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.
Iridescences of Light.
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This drake Teal decided to indulge in a simultaneous wing and leg stretch after sitting motionless for some time. It was on a small island and the conditions were just right for a mirror reflection. Even though it was in bright sunshine the angle was wrong to catch the green iridescence in its speculum, which is Latin for mirror and is that shiny patch at the back of the wing. Exactly like the iridescence on a Hummingbird's throat, the speculum just looks black unless you catch it at the right angle. For interest this is the same Teal and you can see the speculum's iridescent green on the closed wing: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/52460114490/in/dateposted/
The colours on a duck's speculum (and a Hummingbird's throat) are not created by pigments like most coloured feathers. The beautiful green iridescence is formed by refraction of light through a microscopically thin transparent layer on the feathers. Light reflects off both the front and back of this layer and the light travels slower through the layer causing minute phase differences in the light which creates colours. Miniscule differences in the thickness of the layers create different colours. The same thing happens with a drop of oil on a puddle. Each rainbow colour is created by tiny differences in the thickness of the oil layer. But if you catch the bird at the wrong angle the colour disappears and the speculum just looks black like this. Incidentally the word iridescence comes from Iris, the personification of the rainbow in Greek mythology. That's why beautifully coloured things like eyes and flowers are named iris.
Orchid burnished a little with age provides an unusually garish spectacle for the genre. Captured in low light in my Gold Coast hinterland home.
I'm always struggling to catch the iridescence on these ibis. I liked the way the light was hitting this guys feathers. Unlike my last one, I did clean up the background a little. Taken a few months ago.
A Common Starling perched on a tree branch with feathers glossed black and a purple and green shine with white spots at Blayney in the Central West, NSW, Australia
Johnson-Springview Park, Rocklin, Ca. September 2019.
I always see yellow-billed magpies there. And I do love seeing them, they're possibly my favorite local bird.
A starling in its winter plumage! Starlings have stunningly beautiful glossy black feathers with iridescent markings that shine blue and green in the sunlight. During the cooler months they are also covered in small white spots, like this starling seen at Southwold in February!
Starlings turn from spotted and white to glossy and dark each year without shedding their feathers. The new feathers they grow in autumn have bold white/cream tips – that’s what gives them their spots. It’s an unusual changing act that scientists term “wear molt”!
White-faced ibis are in decline in North America due to the draining of wetlands. The largest nesting colony in the world can be found in the marshes around the Great Salt lake in Utah.
This one was photographed in the Bear River NWR, Utah.
Sitting at the desk in the afternoon...not particularly looking to photograph anything when this Grackle landed on the Log Feeder...the Sun was near the horizon…the angle just right...refraction set the iridescence aglow. So I took 7 clicks.
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Frilled Coquette is one of 11 hummingbird species in the Lophornis genus with the common name Coquette. The second part of the scientific name, magnificus, certainly applies! Males have a ‘frill’ of black {or green} and white throat feathers, a chestnut/orange crown, and a white band across the rump (the latter is a trademark of the genus). This bird was a lifer for me, and I only saw it once. That was in the Teresópolis area of Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, with my guide Gabriel Mello.
or 'where our song comes from'
with thanks to frank
who heard their conversations ;-)
Silvereyes at sunrise.
I find it much harder to get the focus right for birds in flight with the SX60. Although I used a set manual focus with both... for whatever reason my old SX10 did it better. This is one of the happy occasions the SX60 and I worked it out.
This image of a Mourning Dove shows the small patch of iridescence on the neck, whose prominence depends on the angle of the light. This photo shows other field marks such as the blue orbital ring and the long tapered tail. This individual was seen in the remote southeastern corner of the province of Alberta, Canada.
This Violet-fronted Brilliant fans its tail and opens its wings to slow the approach to a flower. This angle perfectly shows off exactly why this species is named what it is. Look at that feather iridescence!
Violet-fronted Brilliant
Chunky, stout-billed hummingbird of mid-elevation cloud forest. Plumage is mostly glittering emerald-green. Male has blue or violet forehead and iridescent green throat that appears dark from most angles. Female has white scaling on underparts and white mustache stripe. Young birds may have a coppery tinge on face and throat. Usually found alone inside forest or at forest edge; visits feeders in some areas.
Seen on a photo tour in Northern Peru led by Neotropic Photo Tours and our Peruvian guide Steve Sánchez Wildlife Photography.
When the light falls just so, the Common Grackle lights up with the most beautiful, iridescent hues.
Huntley Meadows Park
Alexandria, VA
Cloud iridescence or irisation (Wiki): is a colorful optical phenomenon that occurs in a cloud and appears in the general proximity of the Sun or Moon. The colors resemble those seen in soap bubbles and oil on a water surface. It is a type of photometeor. This fairly common phenomenon is most often observed in altocumulus,cirrocumulus,lenticular, and cirrus clouds. They sometimes appear as bands parallel to the edge of the clouds. Iridescence is also seen in the much rarer polar stratospheric clouds, also called nacreous clouds