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A series of photos of a leaf cutter bee.
Inside each cell she will lay an egg and provide it with a mixture of pollen and nectar on which to feed.
The bee then chews a section of leaf into a pulp and mixed with saliva she creates the walls of a cosy cell for her offspring. This she will do until the cell is full.
Her young will develop over winter and emerge the following year.
My Garden
August 2021
A dry leaf lies impaled on a small stem protruding from textured snow.
Shot using a Canon FTb on a Manfrotto tripod using Fuji Velvia 50 colour film.
Still testing my new Canon 85mm 1.8
ISO 100
Aperture 1.8
shutter speed 1/200
PP in Ps CS6 and Color efex Pro
Luca Bettarini Photography
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Another banana leaf shot. This one is a stalk on the left, a leaf in the background, and one in the foreground with a backlit edge. This was about 6:30pm and great late afternoon backlighting.
My friend and contact Jen did an awesome inversion piece on this:
Leaf skeleton. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/15415944889/ for a 3D version
Sweetgum (Liquidambar) leaves can be colored red, yellow, orange, or even a purple in color in the fall, besides green, of course. The veins are easily seen, as is the characteristic serrated margin. These leaves were on a tree within walking distance of our house. When the veins radiate out from a single point, a leaf is said to have palmate venation.
More detail is visible at the larger sizes.
See here for my sweet gum (Liquidambar) gallery, with photos of leaves and fruit from these trees, by other photographers.
Isn't God a great artist?
A discarded avocado seed started to sprout in the compost. It has now survived the winter but I had to bring it indoors. This leaf fell off today so I had to memorialize it.
The details of a leaf through the Sun light.
One of my pic is in the best 5 selected for this month by Aputure. The details are in their blog
Aputure Photo Contest -January 2013
Vote for my entry "Save our Earth" if you like it :-)
Thanks!
... for a wonderful weekend for you all !
Old Botanical Garden, Frankfurt - Large On Black
My internet connection is "up and running", but I will not have much time to catch up with all your wonderful shots of the last 10 days
... preparing our journey to Costa Rica next Wednesday.