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Random shot tonight - my mum was showing the twins how to crack nuts and see what was inside. I rather liked the textures so I stole a few for a practise still life shot. Not sure about it to be honest, but it's getting late now so it will do.
Goal for next week is to plan my shots better and have a clearer idea of what I want to achieve. I bought some indoor sparklers that I was going to try out but I feared I might set off the smoke alarm and wake the kids!
I went nuts for this theme!
Macro Monday theme: "Still-life - A Small Grouping of the Tiniest of Items".
HMM Flickrites!
Red Squirrel feeding on nuts.
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Smile on Saturday! :-) - Nuts and Bolts
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Well actually it’s not a fungus at all, meet Badass* utricularis who is a rather fetching Slime mold.
Slime moulds are a group of single-celled amoeba-like organisms that hunt bacteria and form a commune to reproduce. They then produce plasmodia (the caramel sauce) which can grow to quite a large size. When food supplies become scarce they produce the fruiting bodies that we see here and release spores which hatch into amoeba, starting the cycle all over again.
They are not part of the fungi kingdom but their fruiting bodies might suggest they are related.
If you want to know more, (which of course you do, how could you not be fascinated by this amazing organism), then watch this rather entertaining video.
I’ll be asking questions at the end just to make sure you’re behaving and doing your homework.
* It's actually Badhamia but Badass sounds much better.
A late season search for a winter stash of food on a golf course in Dundas, Ontario. Now we know where your missing balls end up.
This little fellow lives in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the ultimate haven away from the city’s chaos, which consists of 1,017 acres (1,589 square miles) of public grounds, thus being about 20% larger than Central Park in New York, to which it is often compared.
"Brenizer Method": Just six shots with the 135mm f/2. You don't always have to go nuts with it to get a good effect.
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Three hazelnuts, one walnut and the nutcracker for them :)
Smile on saturday - theme: "Kitchtoolia" :)
If you take from nature, please give something back
Well this mister Squirrel...okay I am taking a peaceful walk through the park and there is a huge tree right at the entrance to the Secret Garden. I hear a noise and point my camera...I forget that I have eyes when I have a camera...and this squirrel is barreling down the tree with this big nut in his mouth. He came to a dead stop and so did I. If you think he looks startled...wish I had the camera on me LOL. So I clicked and he ran off into the depths of the tree. No harm done. He got the nut, I went on to the garden and chased bumble bees for a half hour
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White Breasted Nuthatch interesting fact: a nuthatch’s foot has one big toe (the hallux) that faces backward, while its other three toes face forward. They are able to walk head first down the trunks of trees by moving only one foot at a time while the hallux toe on the other foot holds firmly to the bark.