Wallydraigle
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I've got some new photos from this week to share.
The first few are all the flowers of Arisaema triphyla, or Jack-in-the-pulpit. Arisaema triphyla belongs to the arum family, and has it's flowers arranged on a stem called a spadix, which is surrounded by a modified bract called a spathe. On Arisaema triphyla the male and female flowers are usually borne by separate plants, but occasionally hermaphrodites are found, such as this one. The male flowers are on top, and the female ones are below. This is how it is for all hermaphrodites of Arisaema triphyla. The male flowers are reduced to four tiny anthers with no petals or sepals. The female flowers are reduced to a single ovary with a stigma at the top. Here's a close-up of the male and female flowers of another plant. Here you can see the arrangement of the male flowers on a normal plant.
Here is the throat of a common violet. At this scale it looks like a stained glass window in some tiny cathedral. The round bumps that the mosaic is made of are single cells. These dewdrops are on the tips of grass blades in front of a violet growing in my yard. I thought it was neat that the optical effects of the dew drop made the flower behind in focus. It almost looks like the flower is within the dewdrop.
This is the new growth of a spruce tree. It was about the size of a pencil eraser. I thought it was cool how all the young needles in the center had a pink blush.
This is some very young moss growing on a wet stone. Mosses don't have true leaves, but each little pad was only a millimeter or two across. The bumps on them are single cells. Mosses have to be so thin because they have no vascular tissue, and all transfer of water into and between their cells takes place by osmosis alone.
This is just an ordinary Asian ladybug. You can see an air bubble in one of the drops on its back.
Just a butterfly, but way up close. He must have been off his game to let me get close enough to get this, but my 180mm macro lens definitely helped 😛
I shot this great blue heron from the window of the car. It's in what's left of the Ohio Canal near Buckeye Lake. This shot isn't particularly special, but variety is good so there it is.
I'm still chugging away with my D60. The very small stuff was done with my MP-E 65mm macro lens and my magic lighting set-up. The butterfly one was done with my 180mm macro lens and some flashes. The heron was shot with my 100-400mm IS lens.
Enjoy!
The first few are all the flowers of Arisaema triphyla, or Jack-in-the-pulpit. Arisaema triphyla belongs to the arum family, and has it's flowers arranged on a stem called a spadix, which is surrounded by a modified bract called a spathe. On Arisaema triphyla the male and female flowers are usually borne by separate plants, but occasionally hermaphrodites are found, such as this one. The male flowers are on top, and the female ones are below. This is how it is for all hermaphrodites of Arisaema triphyla. The male flowers are reduced to four tiny anthers with no petals or sepals. The female flowers are reduced to a single ovary with a stigma at the top. Here's a close-up of the male and female flowers of another plant. Here you can see the arrangement of the male flowers on a normal plant.
Here is the throat of a common violet. At this scale it looks like a stained glass window in some tiny cathedral. The round bumps that the mosaic is made of are single cells. These dewdrops are on the tips of grass blades in front of a violet growing in my yard. I thought it was neat that the optical effects of the dew drop made the flower behind in focus. It almost looks like the flower is within the dewdrop.
This is the new growth of a spruce tree. It was about the size of a pencil eraser. I thought it was cool how all the young needles in the center had a pink blush.
This is some very young moss growing on a wet stone. Mosses don't have true leaves, but each little pad was only a millimeter or two across. The bumps on them are single cells. Mosses have to be so thin because they have no vascular tissue, and all transfer of water into and between their cells takes place by osmosis alone.
This is just an ordinary Asian ladybug. You can see an air bubble in one of the drops on its back.
Just a butterfly, but way up close. He must have been off his game to let me get close enough to get this, but my 180mm macro lens definitely helped 😛
I shot this great blue heron from the window of the car. It's in what's left of the Ohio Canal near Buckeye Lake. This shot isn't particularly special, but variety is good so there it is.
I'm still chugging away with my D60. The very small stuff was done with my MP-E 65mm macro lens and my magic lighting set-up. The butterfly one was done with my 180mm macro lens and some flashes. The heron was shot with my 100-400mm IS lens.
Enjoy!
