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✦ Plumepulse Tattoo by VENUS ✦
I wear my art like a second skin—provocative, unapologetic, and timeless. The Plumepulse Tattoo by VENUS is more than body ink; it’s an intoxicating symphony of curves and contours, where mythical plumage and celestial motifs collide in an opulent embrace. Its graphics sweep across my form with exquisite precision, blending bold florals, winged silhouettes, and sacred star-laced detailing that echo back to the erotic artistry of ancient Japanese irezumi and Baroque romanticism.
Every line is charged with intimacy—delicate feathers whispering along my thighs, celestial swirls tracing my hips, and radiant blossoms blooming across my back. This tattoo is an ode to passion, a living canvas that transforms the body into both gallery and masterpiece.
The Plumepulse comes alive in a palette of possibilities: fresh with lustrous vibrance, faded with soft, time-worn allure, or aged with the kind of haunting beauty only history bestows. Choose from rich color, bold black & white, or your own personal tint to match the mood of your night. Each option invites reinvention, shifting with your story, your seduction, your skin.
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The early Spanish settlers of California saw vast displays of California poppies lighting up the coastal hillsides, and it is said they could guide their ship by the sight. They called the California coast the "land of fire," and the plant the "cup of gold." (flowersociety.org)
On March 2, 1903, the California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, became the official state flower of California. The plant's bright orange flowers are an unmatched symbol of the Golden State, perhaps viewed as a floral representation of the "fields of gold" sought during the gold rush. The California poppy is frequently seen blooming in the spring and summer along country roads and freeways throughout much of the state, making this plant a highly recognizable symbol of California. (wildlife.ca.gov)
To quote John Thomas Howell, "No poet has yet sung the full beauty of our poppy. No painter has successfully portrayed the satiny sheen of its lustrous petals. In its abundance, this colorful plant should not be slighted: cherish it and be thankful that so rare a flower is common."
Praying dear friends you are continuing to stay safe and well, and I would like to thank those who take the time to view, fave, or comment. It is truly appreciated...
The transition is magnificent... from lustrous pearly white, 4 petaled flowers, with pink pearlescent centers, purple hooked stamens, dots of golden pollen, and more pearly buds, pink at the base, waiting to bloom.
Petals falling, highlighting rosy axis support stems and sepal cups from which magenta seeds will form.
Magenta and purple berry like seeds dramatizing the brilliant rose tones of the stems and deeper tones.
Rose Grape Medinilla... a tropical beauty! Its life cycle... magnificent!
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, Miami, FL
– Skin: ND/MD LEA - Fatpack. Worn on LeLutka EvoX Avalon 3.1. The package includes:
• BOM head skin in tattoo layer (with and without eyeliner);
• HDL BOM body skin (work with Belleza, eBody Reborn, Legacy, Legacy Perky and Petite, Maitreya, Maitreya Petite and Flat, Prima, Signature, Belleza, Slink, Erika,V-tech. KUPRA/ Kups/Khara body skin included);
• Pack of freckles and moles (face);
• Tintable eyebrow, pubic hair, freckles and moles;
• brow No-brows,
• HD ears.
• Shapes (Lelutka Avalon, and Akeruka Maggie heads w. multiple body shape options - w. body options Legacy, Maitreya, Prima, Reborn) (you can find the shapes at ND/MD Mainstore).
The fatpack comes in 11 shades (Snow, Pastel, Ivory, Blass, Nude, Satin, Lama Toast, Taupe, Nut, Teak, Pecan). Available: @Inithium Event -25% off
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“Pleasure Never Tasted So Good
Her fangs will bring you far more pleasure
than her lips ever will.
Like a soft midnight
and a stormy morn.
Lustrous eyes and ripened berries,
biting rain and a dark kiss.
You'll want her, but need her so much more”
― Ann Marie Eleazer, She's Magic & Midnight Lace: Poems and Poetic Spells
Macro Mondays theme Iron
Fools gold is a common name given to iron pyrite which is a sulfide mineral of iron. It has a wonderfully lustrous surface which is great at reflecting light.
I had two lights pointing at this nugget, one from the top right and one from the bottom left - to try to minimise the shadows cast by the first light. I quite liked the reflections and colours it produced.
I took this this morning but then ran out of time to post and have been struggling to catch up eversince. Now I can sit down and admire everyone elses lovely images!
The width of frame here is just under 4cm.
Happy Macro Monday! 😊
Photographed the St. John's Wort flowering plant alongside the Domtar Overlook section of the Bridge to Bridge Trail in Timmins in the Township of Mountjoy located in the City of Timmins Northeastern Ontario Canada
Hypericum perforatum is a herbaceous perennial plant with extensive, creeping rhizomes. Its reddish stems are erect and branched in the upper section, and can grow up to 1 metre (3 feet 3 inches) high. The stems are woody near their base and may appear jointed from leaf scars. The branches are typically clustered about a depressed base. It has opposite and stalkless leaves that are narrow and oblong in shape and 1–2 centimetres (1⁄2–3⁄4 in) long. Leaves borne on the branches subtend the shortened branch lets. The leaves are yellow-green in colour, with scattered translucent dots of glandular tissue. The dots are conspicuous when held up to the light, giving the leaves a perforated appearance. The flowers measure up to 2.5 cm (1 in) across, have five petals and sepals, and are coloured bright yellow with conspicuous black dots. The flowers appear in broad helicoid cymes at the ends of the upper branches, between late spring and early to mid-summer. The cymes are leafy and bear many flowers. The pointed sepals have black glandular dots. The many stamens are united at the base into three bundles. The pollen grains are ellipsoidal. The black and lustrous seeds are rough, netted with coarse grooves. When flower buds (not the flowers themselves) or seed pods are crushed, a reddish or purple liquid is produced. Source Wikipedia
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Karen spotted this chocolaty looking beauty during our search for the Double toothed Prominent cat...Pawpaw Sphinx caterpillars start off green but often turn this lustrous dark brown in their final instar! This is only the third brown one I've ever seen, as many caterpillars don't make it to full maturity...
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This is an ant-mimic fly, Sepsis sp. "Sepsids are slender flies that resemble minute, winged ants. They are usually black in color, sometimes lustrous, and sometimes with silvery hairs on the thorax. The head is rounded." First time I'd seen this one. In the field, not the garden..
Shifen Waterfall is a scenic waterfall located in Pingxi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, on the upper reaches of the Keelung River. The falls' total height is 20 metres (66 ft) and 40 metres (130 ft) in width, making it the broadest waterfall in Taiwan. It is a cascade waterfall in which the water flows in one direction and the rock is sloped in the opposite. ( Eextracted From Wikipedia )
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Lycaena cupreus, Montana. This little butterfly was on the sandy slope of a riverbank, its wings tilted perpendicular to the sun, like a solar panel, for maximum warming.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/310222
This bowl depicts the Oculate Being, a creature named for its oversized circular eyes, popular in the Ica region of the south coast of Peru during the last centuries B.C. The white oval head of the Oculate Being, painted in the middle of the vessel, is the central focus of the scene, its green body extending to one edge. A snakelike appendage, ending in another head, emerges from the mouth. A yellow band along the back of the body terminates in a tail with a triangular tip, recalling the shape of an obsidian knife. The Oculate Being holds a disembodied head whose hair tuft resembles the cords often passed through the frontal bone of skulls found in the Paracas region (sometimes called trophy heads, or curated heads). The outside of the bowl was painted red with a series of yellow felines, shown in profile and facing left.
Paracas-style ceramics are characterized by their vibrant and lustrous colors. Combining mostly mineral pigments with a binding agent, artists created paints that were applied on the surface of the pottery post firing (Kriss et al., 2018).
More at the museum page, and more nice photos. The exterior of the bowl is four smiling felines who look vaguely dinosaurian!
Dimensions: H. 2 1/8 × W. 6 7/8 × D. 6 7/8 in. (5.4 × 17.5 × 17.5 cm)
On display at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 202
It’s impossible to overemphasise the beauty of Córdoba’s great mosque, with its remarkably serene (despite tourist crowds) and spacious interior. One of the world's greatest works of Islamic architecture, the Mezquita hints, with all its lustrous decoration, at a refined age when Muslims, Jews and Christians lived side by side and enriched their city with a heady interaction of diverse, vibrant cultures.
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Leaden Flycatcher (Myiagra rubecula), St James Anglican Cemetery, Pitt Town, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia
Ebird checklist:
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The leaden flycatcher (Myiagra rubecula) is a species of passerine bird in the family Monarchidae. Around 15 cm (6 in) in length, the male is lustrous azure with white underparts, while the female possesses leaden head, mantle and back and rufous throat and breast. It is found in eastern and northern Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests in the northern parts of its range, in the south and inland it is eucalypt woodland.
Source: Wikipedia
October 15, 2016
Lustrous:
[luhs-truh s]
adjective
1. having luster; shining; luminous
2. brilliant; splendid; resplendent; illustrious
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Met my parent's at Mer Bleue today for a nice family walk around the boardwalk (not pictured above). It was an gorgeous day to be outside, the sun was shining and the temperature was warm for mid-October.
The boardwalk was very crowded, but that was to be expected with the weather as it was. Still it was great to be outside.
Update on my health, the cold seems to be on its way out and I am feeling a little more like myself today. Not quite 100%, but probably close to 75%, which is way better than I was, so I'm happy about that.
Anyway, hope everyone has had a good day.
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Recently released for the LeLutka Evolution head and available only as BoM.
Worn here is Fair tone on Nova 1.0 head.
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Welcome shade from the blistering sun.
Toned black and white. Infrared 720 Canon converted.
Hyden Hill in the South Downs National Park, England.
Photographed the Carlin's Mining Bee gathering pollen off the Japanese Spiraea flowers in the front yard flower garden located in Timmins in the Township of Mountjoy in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada.
Spiraea japonica is one of several Spiraea shrubs with alternate,simple leaves, on wiry, freely branching, erect stems. The stems are brown to reddish-brown, round in cross-section and sometimes hairy. The shrub reaches 1.2 m to almost 2 m in
height and about the same in width. The deciduous leaves are
generally an ovate shape about 2.5 cm to 7.5 cm long, have
toothed margins, and alternate along the stem. Clusters of rosypink flowers are found at the tips of the branches. The seeds
measure about 2.5 mm in length and are found in small lustrous
capsules.
The Carlinville miner bee[ (Andrena carlini) is a species of miner bee in the family Andrenidae. Another common name for this species is Carlin's miner. It is found in North America.
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Tonight, I stepped into the dim amber light wearing the Justine Dress by Malizia — a daring symphony of texture and temptation. Its deep-cut silhouette plunges down my torso like a whispered secret, while the supple metallic fabric wraps around every curve with liquid precision. The sculpted waistline elongates the form, the high-cut hip teasing the rhythm of movement — a masterpiece of controlled seduction. This isn’t just a dress; it’s an awakening.
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Embrace the warmth of the 'Hera's Kiss' coral lipstick collection from EYKO, designed for Lelutka EvoX heads. This FATPACK blooms with a vibrant selection of coral shades, ranging from the soft touch of peachy sunrise to the rich embrace of sunset amber. Crafted for versatility and style, these lipsticks provide a luscious, high-gloss finish, ensuring your avatar radiates with the glow of mythical beauty in Second Life.
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Mink.
A sleek bodied animal with lustrous chocolate brown to black fur with white spottings on the chin and throat. They have a long and somewhat bushy tail. Male is larger than the female. They weigh between 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 pounds.
They inhabit areas along rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds and marshes.
They range from most of the US and Canada except for the southwestern US areas of southern California, southern and central Utah, souther New Mexico and western Texas.
Lake Erie Metropark, Monroe County, Michigan.
Chez les adultes, le capuchon, les côtés de la tête et le menton sont bleu-vert avec un lustre bronzé. Les lores et le front sont noir mat. La nuque, le manteau, le dos, la gorge et la poitrine ont des reflets bleu-vert, alors que le croupion et les sus-caudales sont bleu-violet avec des reflets pourpres. Le ventre, les flancs, les cuisses et les couvertures sous-caudales forment un ensemble bleu-violet avec une tache centrale couleur bronze. Les ailes sont bleu-vert avec de nettes taches noir-velours à l'extrémité des petites couvertures. La queue est fortement graduée, les rectrices organisées par paires formant comme des marches d'escalier. Elle affiche une couleur violette avec des barres transversales sombres.
Les iris sont blanc-crème, le bec et les pattes sont noirs. Le mâle et la femelle ont un plumage identique mais le premier nommé est nettement plus grand. Les juvéniles n'ont pas de parties lustrées. Ils gardent un iris sombre pendant au moins un anLes choucadors à longue queue fréquentent principalement les contrées pourvues de savanes sèches. Néanmoins, en Afrique Occidentale, on les trouve également à la périphérie des villes qui possèdent des arbres
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In adults, the bonnet, sides of the head and chin are blue-green with a tan sheen. The lores and forehead are dull black. The neck, mantle, back, throat and chest have a blue-green sheen, while the rump and upper tails are blue-purple with purple sheen. The belly, flanks, thighs and under-caudal covers are blue-purple with a central bronze patch. The wings are blue-green with distinct black-velvet spots on the tips of the small covers. The tail is highly graduated, with the rectrices arranged in pairs forming a staircase-like pattern. It is purple with dark crossbars.
The irises are creamy white, the beak and legs are black. Males and females have identical plumage but the former is considerably larger. Juveniles have no lustrous parts. They keep a dark iris for at least a year. Long-tailed jackdaws are mainly found in dry savannah areas. However, in West Africa they are also found on the outskirts of towns with trees.
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En los adultos, el capó, los lados de la cabeza y la barbilla son de color azul verdoso con un brillo bronceado. Los lores y la frente son de color negro mate. El cuello, el manto, el lomo, la garganta y el pecho tienen un brillo azul verdoso, mientras que la grupa y la parte superior de la cola son de color azul-púrpura con un brillo púrpura. El vientre, los flancos, los muslos y las coberturas subcaudales son de color azul-púrpura con una mancha central de color bronce. Las alas son de color azul verdoso con claras manchas de terciopelo negro en las puntas de las pequeñas cubiertas. La cola está muy graduada, con las rectrices dispuestas en pares formando un patrón en forma de escalera. Es de color púrpura con barras transversales oscuras.
El iris es blanco cremoso, el pico y las patas son negros. Los machos y las hembras tienen un plumaje idéntico, pero los primeros son considerablemente más grandes. Los juveniles no tienen partes lustrosas. Conservan un iris oscuro durante al menos un año. Las grajillas de cola larga se encuentran principalmente en zonas de sabana seca. Sin embargo, en África occidental también se encuentran en las afueras de las ciudades con árboles.
An overcast winter's day in this ancient town ......and the lustrous Tarn River brought a note of tranquility and serene beauty to this treasure of a place and its 1000 year old bridge! The wall in the foreground was formerly part of the Berbie Palace - a fortress built in the 1200's for the Catholic Bishops who were installed in Albi, after the Albigensian Crusade against the so-called heretical sect of Cathars. It is now a fantastic museum dedicated to the art of Toulouse Lautrec who lived and worked in Albi.
The bridge in the foreground "Le Pont Vieux" (Old Bridge) was commissioned in 1035 by the Viscount Trencavel for commercial advantage and mobility. It became a major trading hub from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, and for merchants moving from the north to the south. This bridge is largely responsible for the commercial prosperity of the city of Albi in the Middle Ages.
You can read more about Albi here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albi
Quelle belle ville, au bord du Tarn! Meme sous un ciel d'hiver couvert et brumeux, les couleurs chaleureuses et le fleuve lustreux donnaient a cette scene un air de beaute' et de serenite'. Le Pont Vieux au premier plan fut construit vers l'annee 1035.
About the Tarn: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarn_(river)
This is the view from above the Palais de la Berbie that is now the Toulouse Lautrec Museum. About this astonishing medieval fortress, one of the earliest French castles: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_de_la_Berbie.
And in English: france-world-heritage.com/berbie-palace
Lurking in the reeds, showing off the various shades of green on her lustrous little back. Because green is my favorite color!
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, October, 2020.
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Hot pink Ranunculus.
Persian buttercup (Ranunculus asiaticus) is a perennial plant that can grow to be a foot and a half tall.
The petals are often highly lustrous, some species are popular ornamental flowers in horticulture, with many cultivars selected for large and brightly coloured flowers.
What got me 'in' to 'flower-photography', was that I wanted to know more about lighting.
That was 30 years ago, flowers seemed the perfect subject matter, because of their different colours, shapes, textures, great variety and 'characters', I'd had many a garden, grown my own, so, I started out with an advantage, I knew about flowers...
I found a niche in the market, for almost 20 years now people have been 'raving' about them, asking me how I 'do' it?
There is NO magic formula, each flower is unique and treated as such!
I do NOT consider myself a 'flower-photographer' but a a photographer who knows how to use lighting well and with a great love for flowers...
Glad you enjoy them.
Thank you for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
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Plum-purple was the west; but spikes of light
Spear'd open lustrous gashes, crimson-white;
(Where the eye fix'd, fled the encrimsoning spot,
And gathering, floated where the gaze was not;)
And thro' their parting lids there came and went
Keen glimpses of the inner firmament:
Fair beds they seem'd of water-lily flakes
Clustering entrancingly in beryl lakes.
[from "A Vision of Mermaids" (1962) by Gerard Manley Hopkins]
Alberobello, Puglia skyline as twilight approaches
www.italyheaven.co.uk/puglia/alberobello.html
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I occasionally come across one of these beauties...and those green eyes always captivate me the most, but I have to say the coat on this one was stunning...I'll bet he shampoos with Luster Creme...so silky and lustrous! LOL
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Jute is known as the ‘Golden Fiber’ due to its golden brown color and its importance. In terms of usage, production and global consumption, jute is second only to cotton. It is the fiber used to make hessian sacks and garden twine. Jute is environmentally friendly as well as being one of the most affordable fibers; jute plants are easy to grow, have a high yield per acre and, unlike cotton, have little need for pesticides and fertilizers. Jute is a bast fiber, like flax and hemp, and the stems are processed in a similar way. Jute is an annual crop grown mainly 80% in Bangladesh in the fertile Ganges Delta. Jute fibers are very long (1 to 4 metres), silky, lustrous and golden brown in color.
Excerpt from The Treasure-Hunter's guidebook (Pocket-Edition) 1985.
" Since primordial times it has guarded a vast and shiny treasure. Attempting to take one of these lustrous gems is widely considered a once-in-a-lifetime trip.."
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Built for Bio-Cup 2023, Round 1.
Theme: Biomes.
Subtheme: Caves.
The angora goat is an ancient breed, with records of the use of goat hair for clothing found as early as the 14th century BC.
In 1550 a Dutchman discovered the goats, which became known as angora goats (angora being a corruption of the word Ankara) and began to generate a demand for their fleece.
In 1554 a pair of angora goats was presented to the Pope in Rome.
Mohair, the name given to the fleece of angora goats, is derived from the Arabic word Mukhaya meaning "cloth of bright lustrous goat hair"
The Sultan of Turkey placed a ban on the export of both raw fleece and goats, and for several centuries they remained incarcerated in Turkey.
Eventually, in the mid-19th century, small numbers of angora goats were exported from Turkey to South Africa and, a little later, to Texas and New Zealand. These animals formed the foundations of the modern national herds in those countries, both by pure breeding and crossing with the indigenous feral goats.
Today, these countries are the biggest producers of angora goats and mohair in the world.
Apart from a few animals presented to Queen Victoria which did not survive, the angora goat did not reach the UK until 1981.
Source: British Angora Goat Society
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Hot pink Ranunculus.
Persian buttercup (Ranunculus asiaticus) is a perennial plant that can grow to be a foot and a half tall.
The petals are often highly lustrous, some species are popular ornamental flowers in horticulture, with many cultivars selected for large and brightly coloured flowers.
What got me 'in' to 'flower-photography', was that I wanted to know more about lighting.
That was 30 years ago, flowers seemed the perfect subject matter, because of their different colours, shapes, textures, great variety and 'characters', I'd had many a garden, grown my own, so, I started out with an advantage, I knew about flowers...
I found a niche in the market, for almost 20 years now people have been 'raving' about them, asking me how I 'do' it?
There is NO magic formula, each flower is unique and treated as such!
I do NOT consider myself a 'flower-photographer' but a a photographer who knows how to use lighting well and with a great love for flowers...
Glad you enjoy them.
Thank you for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
flowers, "hot pink", "Persian buttercups", Ranunculus, design, studio, black-background, colour, square, "Magda indigo"
I have lots of close ups of this striking, common prairie gull, but when I saw them massed at Reed Lake, I opted for a moderate telephoto view to show numbers and habitat. Individual birds are more striking in spring, anyway, when the black of their heads is rich and lustrous, and they get a rosy blush on their white feathers.
They are now on their way to South America for the winter. Morning light.
Photographed at Reed Lake, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Gallito de Agua / Northern Jacana ( Jacana spinosa )
status en RD Residente no común (Rnc) / No Common Resident
*Behold the resplendent Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa), captured with artistic mastery on the 4th of February, 2023, amidst the serene grounds of Hacienda Estrella in the Dominican Republic. Like a vision transported from a naturalist's dream, this avian marvel is adorned in plumage of lustrous gold and earthy brown, crowned with a striking black and yellow frontal shield—a herald of its unique elegance.*
*Pray, cast thine eyes upon its most curious appendages—those elongated toes which bespeak a tale most wondrous. These remarkable feet, spanning an improbable length, confer upon the Jacana its moniker, the “Jesus bird,” for it appears to tread miraculously upon the water's surface. In truth, its spindly toes distribute its weight with finesse, allowing it to traverse the aquatic tapestry of lily pads and vegetation that adorn its habitat.*
*A creature of singular grace, the Northern Jacana is a testament to the ingenuity of the natural world, where beauty and function entwine in harmony. Were such a being to grace the parlours and salons of Victorian naturalists, it would surely inspire a thousand odes and scientific treatises alike.*
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Taken at Broadwater campground, Sundown N.P. Nr. Tenterfield, QLD.
The male is lustrous azure with white underparts, while the female possesses leaden head, mantle and back and rufous throat and breast. It is found in eastern and northern Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
Wikipedia.
💋A WOMAN IN RED IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS💋
[DIN] JUSTINE DRESS - COSMOPOLITAN EVENT
AVAWAY - MOLLY BRACELET AND RINGS AvaWay
ARNAUD HAUS - LUSTROUS NECKLACE & CHOKER
ARNAUD HAUS - SPIRAL CULT EARRINGS
RAMA SALON - MARLYN HAIR RAMA SALON
Four candy-pink, Ranunculus, beauties.
Persian buttercup (Ranunculus asiaticus) is a perennial plant that can grow to be a foot and a half tall.
They have blooms that resemble roses, with simple , like HERE, or branched stems.
The petals are often highly lustrous, some species are popular ornamental flowers in horticulture, with many cultivars selected for large and brightly coloured flowers.
What got me 'in' to 'flower-photography', was that I was fascinated by ‘light’ and wanted to know more about lighting...
That was 27 years ago, it started with painting and evolved into photography.
Flowers seemed the perfect subject matter, because of their different colours, shapes, textures, great variety and 'characters', I'd had many a garden, grown my own, so, I started out with an advantage, I knew about flowers...
I found a niche in the market, for 16 years now people have been 'raving' about them, asking me how I 'do' it?
Copying, imitating and stealing, photos, words and even titles.
They say it is the highest ‘accolade’ for an artist? LOL.
There is NO magic formula, each flower is unique and treated as such! I do NOT consider myself a 'flower-photographer' but a a photographer who knows how to use lighting well...
Glad you enjoy them.
Thank you for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Leaden Flycatcher (Myiagra rubecula), St James Anglican Cemetery, Pitt Town, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/checklist/S100312608
The leaden flycatcher (Myiagra rubecula) is a species of passerine bird in the family Monarchidae. Around 15 cm (6 in) in length, the male is lustrous azure with white underparts, while the female possesses leaden head, mantle and back and rufous throat and breast. It is found in eastern and northern Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests in the northern parts of its range, in the south and inland it is eucalypt woodland.
Source: Wikipedia
I had planned to combine the two shots of this wonderful rose - half-blown and fully open , but both are so stunning, I decided to post each separately- one follows the other.
This beautiful rose is showy and a symphony of colors. The petals have a unique and difficult-to-describe color, a harmonious blend of beige to light pink from the center, and mesmerizing shades of lavender towards the edges. Healthy flowers are vividly contrasting with semi-lustrous green foliage.
Rosa 'Distant Drums' was introduced in 1984 by the Hybridizer Dr.Griffith Buck. He successfully hybridized it in Ames, Iowa. While making this hybrid, Buck was focusing on hardiness, beauty, and color variation. Parentage: a cross between September Song and The Yeoman.
Rosa 'Distant Drums' are tough plants. They have been cultivated for years to develop hardiness and resilience.