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...I know this is Friday Night Photos of Love, but I had to throw some humor in tonight. I am sorry for posting and running this week...very busy, but there were three special birthdays this week. My deepest thanks to those that still visited my pics, even though I wasn't around.
...I hope you're enjoying a romantic evening with the one you love, my friends, and I hope you're enjoying it with a little humor, a little fun.
~~~ Suppertime ~~~ from The Little Shop of Horrors
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*** thank you, my friends, for your wonderful support...seen in Explore #99 1/22/09 ***
The Snake (蛇) is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac
According to Chinese Astrology, the Year of the Snake person is a smart person. They think of clever schemes in a cold calculating manner. This Chinese zodiac animal sign represents people who are loners and use others to achieve their aims and goals. Their Chinese horoscope makes for interesting reading. Their goals may be worthwhile for mankind or could be solely for the gain of the Snake person. Some people find them attractive because of their swift movement and slender silky beauty. Other people are repelled by the Year of the Snake person because of their perceived danger. Whatever - the person born in the Year of the Snake will invoke a strong reaction from people.
This stamp was issued back in 2001
Chinese New Year is on Feb 10, 2013
Our downtown streets here in Miami are lined with Royal Poinciana trees. Their delicate, lacy, fern-like leaves throw fascinating shadows on sidewalks, people and objects below.
In May blossoms appear. Glorious red buds unfold revealing a pleated ivory- and gold shield and surrounding red petals. The shield (or standard) petal creates a vibrant contrast displaying the central cluster of black-edged, red-stemmed, pollen-laden stamens.
After a week or so, the petals begin to fall, covering the ground in blazing red blossoms.
Royal Poinciana, Delonix regia
Biscayne Park FL
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#462 on explore 2009-09-6
A spider and her nest from our front yard. Does anyone know what type of spider this is. The picture was taken in Noth Carolina USA.
The above image is underwing of the dazzling Asian male leopard lacewing that composes of bright orange, yellow, or red, whereas females feature wing patterns with a gray or white background. Both sexes are sprinkled with blackish-blue spots and lining veins.
The leopard lacewing butterfly, which is scientifically known as Cethosia cyane, are found from India, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Two subspecies are described, one from India, Bhutan and Burma, and the other from northern Thailand and Indo-China.
Frequently observed in tropical and subtropical forests, during the rainy season leopard lacewing numbers increase dramatically. Hundreds of the butterflies may fly en masse, creating an amazing spectacle.
I have to admit, bougth the ball head more for the technical design than for his technical functionality.
Which is still top of the line. And I am very much satisfied with the performance.
this syrphid fly (otherwise known as a hoverfly) looks like he's taking a vacuum cleaner to the daisy
Happy Tuesday !
Is it pink Tuesday , or still Blue Monday?.. :-) this image qualifies for both I think?
Dedicated to my girlfriend, who I love and adore so so much, the person who is really responsible for both yesterday’s and today’s pictures. She encourages me to take (make) images and without her in the last year I think I would have been close to leaving my photography behind. Gratitude is a word that symbolises a lot that she gives me, ;-) I love you for everything.
I would guess many, many , many of us who just want our hobby recognised, should be grateful to our other halves? I know I am. Thank you. Maybe we should show it a bit more?
Also today, thank you all, I made that Flickr Explore thing with yesterday’s image. I have to admit I don’t understand it, but I know that I like almost all of the images I see there, so to be amongst them for the first time feels quite good.
Some questions tho… who chooses them and at the fear of being big headed I thought mine might be a bit better than one or two of those higher than mine (is that a bad thing to say) why is that?
Oh yeah and another question from a Flickr newbie, I have seen that some people might leave a comment on their own picture and attach to that a second version of their image or a screen shot, and that picture does not seem to appear in their photostream, how is that done?
Oh and I should say something about the picture! ;-) The flower is a pink gerberer, shot in the bathroom again, sprayed with water from underneath and shot using a ring flash on a low setting to reduce the "glare". I must make some kind of diffuser for that, I've heard plastic milk bottles are good? ;-)
La luna asoma grande, luminosa, tan redonda que parece una chincheta en el cielo. Una luna de mentira.
hoverfly on a petal of a black-eyed susan. he seems to be scratching his back with the two hind legs
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
-Pearl Buck
Explored - Sep 2, 2009
For Rita, who had to go~I'm Happy, but do love this Song~
I get along without you very well.
I've forgotten you just like i should,
Of course i have,
Except to hear your name,
Or someone's laugh that is the same,
But i've forgotten you just like i should.
What a guy, what a fool am i,
To think my breaking heart could kid the moon.
What's in store? should i phone once more?
No, it's best that i stick to my tune.
I get along without you very well,
Of course i do,
Except perhaps in spring,
But i should never think of spring,
For that would surely break my heart in two.
by Diana Krall
carpet beetles and stink bug on a shasta daisy. There also appears to be an aphid at upper left of the yellow flower center.
TGIF...Hi everyone...thank you for your comments and viewing. Here are a series of my macro shots for everybody to see. Enjoy and have a pleasant Friday...Cheers, Ringgo.
Nikon D700 + Nikon 105mm f/2.8G AF-S VR + Ring flash + Handheld.