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Apparently 45 Degrees Is The Preferred Angle. Mixture of green and orange is very interesting to me.
So often we neglect the beauty around us, a Gerber Daisy always attracts us to the face it shows the world. Look again!
The brilliance of the true colors of autumn mark the end of our summer and prepare for a long winter sleep.
paleae: fertile disc florets that terminate in spines
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COLUMBINE Thrive in any normal garden soil that is preferably moist but not wet, and moderately sunny. Vigorous plants with elegant divided glaucous green foliage, and distinctively shaped flowers on wiry branching stems.
An experiment. If anyone is curious what went into creating this image:
I placed a piece of white poster board on the kitchen table. On the poster board I put a length of narrow lavender-colored ribbon (the kind with wire edges so it can be formed to hold a shape ... it had been coiled up in a tight coil, so when I un-coiled it, the ribbon had a spiral form.) Then, in the center of that spiral, I placed some fibers I had pulled off of a piece of gold-tone metallic fabric. Then I placed a white reflector directly on top of the faux flower (so it was pressing down hard enough to show the edges of the ribbon & gold fibers underneath). Then I placed 2 small lamps on top of a stack of 3 shoeboxes directly beside the reflector, and trained their light directly down on the faux flower under the white reflector. I also had one of the overhead kitchen lights on. Then I used my macro lens for this photo.
If I play with this technique again, I'll try to avoid having moiré patterns, evident in this image, appear in the final result.
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
The deep burgundy foliage of this ground cover plant is a standout in any garden. Then along comes this tiny weeny little flower in spring. It surprised us as when we bought several of them we were unaware they flowered. Needless to say a bonus for me and my macro lens!
This distinct macro image captures the integral detail that we so often pass unnoticed during our everyday lives, but stop and look closer to witness the beauty and detail of nature!
Messenger
by Mary Oliver
My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird—
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all the ingredients are here,
which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
and these body-clothes,
a mouth with which to give shouts of joy
to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is
that we live forever.
Kind of a scary pic. I sprayed a dead thistle like plant with dark red water and then positioned it in front of a striking yellow bunch of flowers. My goal was to fool the observer into thinking this was all one flower. I don't think that happened but the result is still pretty cool.
Tweaked the exposure in RAW editor. No Photoshop recoloring.