Delicacy
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Sony Alpha 350, Sony 100mm Macro lens, f5.6 @ 1/50 sec Exposure, ISO 100. Macro photograph of a pile of white feathers, backlit, colour altered in Photoshop. FEATURED IN OUT OF THE BLUE! / FEATURED IN THE GROUP ‘NIRVANA’!
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The soft blooms of the Japanese Weeping Cherry. More Photography: / /
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Ms. Painted Lady found a friend on the lovely lily pond… ;-)
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These flowers are found everywhere here (don’t know their names though :o) but they always brighten up a pathway. / Come in white too..but I love the delicate purple.
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Close up of a hot pink rhododendron, taken using a borrowed Canon 300D camera with extension tubes. Featured in The Sisterhood 27 March 2009. / Featured in Amateur Art Photography 30 March 2009.
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Lumix LX3 Flower taken at Glasgow Botanic Gardens.
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Another one of my experiments with butterfly photos, this one of a rice paper butterfly. !!
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A Dandelion petal… Lensbaby 3G with Macro filter
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This tree has very fluid movement and reminded me of tree branches dancing in the wind on a misty California day. The delicacy of the color and branches express a mood of freedom and movement. /
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Information courtesy Wikipedia here A dragonfly is a type of insect belonging to the order Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera. It is characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong transparent wings, and an elongated body. Dragonflies are similar to damselflies, but the adults can be differentiated by the fact that the wings of most dragonflies are held away from, and perpendicular to, the body when at rest. Even though dragonflies possess 6 legs like any other insect, they are not capable of walking. Dragonflies are valuable predators that eat mosquitoes, and other small insects like flies, bees, ants, and butterflies. They are usually found around lakes, ponds, streams and wetlands because their larvae, known as “nymphs”, are aquatic. Nymphs can deliver a painful bite when threatened. 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Check out the latest organic t-shirts, sweatshirts, and girls shirts. And plenty of styles for toddlers too! Aprons / Bags / Buttons / Cards / Hats / Keds Shoes / Keychains / Magnets / Mousepads / Mugs / Postage / Postcards / Stickers / T-Shirt / Ties —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / Dragonflies in culture In Europe, dragonflies have often been seen as sinister. Some English vernacular names, such as “devil’s darning needle” and “ear cutter”, link them with evil or injury. / -A Romanian folk tale says that the dragonfly was once a horse possessed by the devil. / -This is also seen in the Maltese culture as the word for dragonfly which is “Debba ta’ l-infern” literally means Hell’s mare. / -Swedish folklore holds that the devil uses dragonflies to weigh people’s souls. Another Swedish legend holds that trolls use the dragonflies as spindles when weaving their clothes (hence the Swedish word for dragonfly trollslända, lit. “troll’s spindle”) as well as sending them to poke out the eyes of their enemies. / -The Norwegian name for dragonflies is “Øyenstikker”, which literally means Eye Poker. / -Portugal they are sometimes called “Tira-olhos” (Eye snatcher). / -They are often associated with snakes, as in the Welsh name gwas-y-neidr, “adder’s servant”. / -The Southern United States term “snake doctor” refers to a folk belief that dragonflies follow snakes around and stitch them back together if they are injured. / -The Lithuanian word “Laum žirgis” is a composite word meaning “the Lauma’s horse”. / -In Dutch, Aeshna mixta is called “Paardenbijter” or “horse biter”. / -In some South American countries, dragonflies are also called matacaballo (horse killer), or caballito del diablo (devil’s little horse), since they were perceived as harmful, some species being quite large for an insect. / -In East Asia and among Native Americans, dragonflies have a far better reputation, one that can also be said to have positively influenced modern day views about dragonflies in most countries, in the same vein as the insect’s namesake, the dragon, which has a positive image in the east, but initially had an association with evil in the west. / -For some Native American tribes they represent swiftness and activity, and for the Navajo they symbolize pure water. Dragonflies are a common motif in Zuni pottery; stylized as a double-barred cross, they appear in Hopi rock art and on Pueblo necklaces. It is said in some Native American beliefs that dragonflies are a symbol of renewal after a time of great hardship. / -They also have traditional uses as medicine in Japan and China. In some parts of the world they are a food source, eaten either as adults or larvae. / In Indonesia, for example, they are caught on poles made sticky with birdlime, then fried in oil as a delicacy. / -Vietnamese people have a traditional way to forecast rain by seeing dragonflies: “Chuồn chuồn bay thấp thì mưa, bay cao thì nắng, bay vừa thì râm” (Dragonflies fly at low level, it is rainy; dragonflies fly at high level, it is sunny; dragonflies fly at medium level, it is shadowy). / -In some parts of the world it is considered lucky to have a dragonfly land on you, even to the point of yielding seven years of good luck. / -In the United States dragonflies and damselflies are sought out as a hobby similar to birding and butterflying, known as oding, from the dragonfly’s Latin species name, odonata. Oding is especially popular in Texas, where 225 out of a total of 457 known species of odonates in the world have been observed. With care, dragonflies can be handled and released by Oders, unlike butterflies. The band, Coheed & Cambria, uses a dragonfly as one of their symbols. Images of dragonflies were common in Art Nouveau, especially in jewelry designs.They have also been used as a decorative motif on fabrics and home furnishings. See more of taiche at ZAZZLE / Baby Custom T-Shirts :dress that baby up with a special design on a custom t-shirt, long sleeve or onesize / Kids Custom T-Shirts .from organic t-shirts to long sleeve shirts, boys, girls, and toddlers can fill their fashion needs with a one-of-a-kind custom t-shirts for kids. Check out the latest organic t-shirts, sweatshirts, and girls shirts. And plenty of styles for toddlers too! Aprons / Bags / Buttons / Cards / Hats / Keds Shoes / Keychains / Magnets / Mousepads / Mugs / Postage / Postcards / Stickers / T-Shirt / Ties
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The delicacy of a powder puff, one breath and its gone. From my Abstract Nature series.
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Featured 11/3/08 in the Sweet Tooth group. Thank you hosts.
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I found this grouping of flowers, lantanas that grow more frequently in the Southern States. I took several photographs of these vibrantly beautiful flowers that grow in bunches. Lantana’s aromatic flower clusters (called umbels) are a mix of red, orange, yellow, or blue and white florets. Other colors exist as new varieties are being selected. The flowers typically change color as they mature, resulting in inflorescences that are two- or three-colored. This photograph has less bunches to appreciate the colors and delicacy of these magnificent florals. This particular cluster touched my heart. Can you find the heart shaped bunch in lavender and red? “There are philosophies as varied as the flowers of the field, and some of them weeds and a few of them poisonous weeds. But none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.” / G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) / English Writer.
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This is one of the small flowerettes that make up a geranium flower as it was just opening, no bigger than my little finger, and the grub was barely visible to the naked eye. I did not even see him until I looked up close through the lens. 90mm macro with 36mm extension tube.
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A single white rose, tinted pink by the cold weather
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Some softness in this tough world.
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Pulled this from a little rock pool at low tide, / it’s a New Zealand Kina, a type of sea urchin prevalent in these waters. Thanks for the feature in Abstracts from Nature – I do have a couple of other pictures that will put this into perspective, do check them out. Sony alpha 350, Sigma 70mm f2.8 Macro Lens
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Red roses in hand on a black background, combined color and black and white
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