Thanks to Giliell for these beautiful photos! Click for full size.
On the way home, taken from the moving car at 100km/h. Not too bad…On the way home, taken from the moving car at 100km/h. Not too bad… © Giliell
And water, two ways. I love photographing water and photos of water, and here, Giliell has water soft and dreamy, and clear and crispy:
© Giliell
© Giliell
Gorgeous flowers, courtesy of Giliell. The first one looks like what I know as Iceplant (Delosperma cooperi), but I’m not sure. Click for full size.
Photo © Giliell.
Photo © Giliell.
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Photo © C. Ford. All rights reserved.
Iris (Iris sibirica). Sweet, sexy Iris. Click for full size.
Images © C. Ford
From Lofty.
Black Wattle Firewood. © Lofty.
Never heard of Black Wattle before. It’s a very beautiful and striking wood. It’s an Acacia, but there are so many Black Wattles!
Venerable fence post. © Lofty.
I have a thing for fence posts myself, they have been frequent subjects – some of them have such character. I really like this shot. Thanks, Lofty!
A gorgeous photo from Lofty, featuring silver birch, manna gum, and stringybarks. What a great surrounding to live in. Click for full size.
Photo © Lofty.
Coneflower (Echinacea). Click for full size.
© C. Ford
River de Grace. She’s flat out charming, this one. Playful, curious, sweet. Click for full size.
Photo © Mattia Menchetti
When Given Colored Construction Paper, Wasps Build Rainbow Colored Nests.
It’s unnerving to discover a wasp’s nest dangling outside your house, but perhaps it would be a tad less so with the help of biology student Mattia Menchetti who cleverly realized he could give colored construction paper to a colony of European paper wasps. By gradually providing different paper shades, the wasps turned their homes into a functional rainbow of different colors.
© Waldo Nell
The Extraordinary Iridescent Details of Peacock Feathers Captured Under a Microscope.
In this series of photographs featuring the delicate details of peacock feathers, photographer Waldo Nell relied on an Olympus BX 53 microscope to take hundreds of individual shots that were combined to create each image seen here. The process, called photo stacking, blends dozens or even hundreds of photos taken at different focal points and then stitches them together to extend the depth of field. At this level of detail the feathers look more like ornate jewelry, thick braids of iridescent necklaces or bracelets, rather than something that grows organically from the wings of a bird.
By day Nell is a software engineer in Port Moody, BC, Canada, but is fascinated by technology, science, and nature, all of which he merges in his photography practice. You can see more of his work on Flickr.
Poppies. Click for full size.
All images © C. Ford
Daisies. My favourite. (Bellis perennis). Click for full size.
Images © C. Ford
It’s nice to see that some people understand that there’s more to beauty than a rigid, near unattainable ideal.
Meet Katie Meade, the beauty industry’s newest diverse face. Photo: Beauty And Pinups
Former Special Olympics athlete Katie Meade is the new face of Beauty and Pinups, making her the first woman with Down syndrome to win a beauty campaign.
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She went on, “People see me for who I am and they see me not as someone with a disability, but that I have ability. And I like to try new different things and I inspire women to do that. Beauty belongs to everybody.”
Yes, it does. I’m definitely with Katie on that one.
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Click for full size.
Image © C. Ford