Under a different light, yet still simple!
Just for fun, something light for Mondays: let’s go to black and white! There’s always something captivating about reducing an image to its basic components and stick to the variety of black and white tones that we can express in it.
Here’s a recent one that kind of stood out to me…
The fun part of shooting this is that it was lit up with a red spotlight, which provided rather interesting contrast on a green leaf. The resultant structure really pops and produces a pleasing effect.
Crawling up a leaf!
Welcome to the 147th round up of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!
Lots of great Crawl photos with a ton of creepy crawlies, although I find most of them rather enticing and lovely! There were some touching crawling shots of babies, and even some adults! There were even multiple interpretations of Crawl, ranging from the Australian crawl to skin crawl and crawling with ants!
Thank you all for putting together this wonderful array of posts that were a blast to read. I hope that all of you enjoy them as much as I did!
Here’s a lovely little crawler…
This is another shot from one of my visits to Tower Hill Botanic Garden. I noticed this bug crawling on this magnificent leaf and loved the textures that were presented to me.
The following were this week’s participants in the challenge with links to their posts:
Please let all of these great bloggers know your thoughts about their posts!
Natures origami
The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge has the theme of Structure, which has made me very happy, as there is lots of structure in Nature and the world around us.
Yesterday’s post focused on the structure of a cabbage, as it grows and produces fractal geometries. Today, I’m going back to a leaf structure, but very different from the first in this series. Whereas the first leaf showed off the strength of support structures, this one is all about using fan-folding as a means of providing rigidity.
Here’s that incredible fan, as it radiates out…
This leaf is simple in its construction, filled with elegance and truly minimalistic, yet incredibly strong.
Hope you enjoy!
Fractal geometry?
The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge has the theme of Structure, which has made me very happy, as there is lots of structure in Nature and the world around us.
Yesterday’s post focused on the structure of a large leaf. Today’s image is more about how beautiful structures get created through growth. The mechanics and construction of growing organisms are very interesting, as Nature favors those that optimize themselves to both adapt and thrive in their environment. As a result, the mathematics that describe these structures are beautiful as well.
Here’s an example of structural growth…
This cabbage is simply stunning in the complexity of the shapes that are in view. Fractals are clearly in evidence here!
Hope you enjoy!
Holding it all together
The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge has the theme of Structure, which is right up my alley, as I love finding structure, where not everyone might be looking for it. Expect to see more than one post this week with a theme this fitting!
In particular, I enjoy going to Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts, which is a mere 10 minutes drive from where I live. There is always something to photograph on any day of the year, and I have built up quite a catalog of images from there.
Here’s a bit of structural integrity…
As you can tell, I used the Sun’s light coming through this leaf to capture the strong definition of its structural members. This leaf has wonderful definition!
Hope you enjoy!
Structured thoughts!
The 46th episode of our weekly challenge jumped into another area of exploration through the theme of Structure. As I’ve come to expect at this point, this has been another week of great entries with some extremely creative work!
The entries went into several directions, ranging from human-made structures to an impressive variety of natural wonders. Again, there was some stunning photography and lots of great posts that were just wonderful to read. You definitely make this a lot of fun for me to read!
Here’s another image from my trek to Tower Hill Botanic Garden…
What struck me immediately about this leaf were the orthogonal lines working throughout; the color bands against the veins contrast one another. The function and form come together in simple beauty.
The following were this week’s participants in the challenge with links to their posts:
This is another great set of images, posts and participation! Thanks to each of you for taking the time and being creative! Tomorrow we’re on to another week…
Built with purpose
Welcome to Week 46 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge. It was a tremendous pleasure to read the entries in response to last week’s theme, Nostalgia, which were just stunning and touching!
This week’s theme comes from my explorations over the weekend, going back to Nature for inspiration. Saturday allowed me to explore the Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge with my good friend, George, from which I will share more images. On Sunday, my wife, Kris, and I visited Tower Hill Botanic Garden, which is the source for today’s image; many more will follow!
Today’s image gave me the idea to use the theme of Structure. Whether in Nature or human-created, structure is key to growth, stability and beauty. In Nature structure shows throughout optimized arrangements of plant growth, animals of all kinds and even the ground, upon which we walk. Your challenge is to go out and highlight those aspects of structure that you enjoy most and share the beauty you find in structure.
So here’s the image that I captured that started me thinking…
Fan-shaped leaves never fail to draw me in, as they are true expressions of Nature’s ability to find an optimal solution for the complex problems of weight distribution and strength.
The full rules of this challenge are in TPC Guidelines, but here’s the tl;dr:
I know that I am going to love all of your contributions to this week’s challenge. Structure is all around us and a lot of fun to explore!
Leaf power
Today, I am going back to Nature for this installment of Wednesday Wonderment, as she is a source of immeasurable variety, beauty and amazement.
This amazing leaf was in a tropical greenhouse at the Botanical Garden of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. This botanical garden is both a fantastic exhibit to visit and see plants from a variety of biomes, and a research facility for the students of the University of Technology. During our visit, a group of students was working with a professor to study soil characteristics, which was interesting to watch.
One of the aspects of Nature that continually grabs my attention are the structures that make up plants, leaves and trees; the distribution of strength in support of the energy production machinery is sheer perfection. Even today, when I look at this image, there are little details such as the feathering of the lamina between the lateral veins; it might be indicative of the flow of energy and fluid through the leaf.
Each of these details have evolved over the ages, as successful function edged out other variants by the thinnest of margins. It would be amazing to see the entire book of variations over the ages, as that would provide insight beyond anything that we have ever possessed.
This image was captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mk III and a 24-105 f/4L lens. Settings were f/5.6 at 1/320 second with ISO 1000. The image was processed using the camera’s HDR capability.
Hope you enjoy this leaf, as much as I do.
Folded right, we can turn over a new leaf…
The Wednesday Wonderment series examines some of the things that amaze and inspire me; lots will be in nature, but there may be some surprises.
“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”
― Albert Einstein
Today’s image is all about structure. Nature provides us with a dazzling array of structures that are optimized for the function that they perform. Such is the case here with this palm leaf, which is perfectly folded to provide the strength needed to support its size, which allows it to capture as many of the sun’s vital rays as possible.
Structure that lends strength is seen in many places in nature, maybe none more dramatic than the giant sequoias.
There is also beauty in these forms beyond just the functional aspect; this beauty has us coming back time and again to appreciate a level of perfection that is rarely achieved in human endeavors.
What structure in nature is your favorite? What draws you in when you look at it?
Thank you for reading this post; I hope you enjoyed it!
This image was captured with a Canon EOS 5D MkIII with a 17-40mm F4 lens. F-stop used was f/8 at 1/25 second, ISO 640.
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