Random Photo Thread: The Sequel

[buckytom]

tatt, the first pics of the watch looks like the antkythera mechanism before it went into the sea.

you know, stavros antikythera's wife caught him cheating on a luxury cruise one nght after she went to bed all crabby and left him in the lounge 3 sheets to the wind, so she chucked his remarkable invention overboard, but that's another story.


and great lightling on the coloured pencils.

you certainly have a photog's eye.

 

[Soma]

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[vitauta]

i think i know what soma is saying without words, and if it is a silent protest, pressing to be heard, i am in total agreement with her....

 

[TATTRAT]

While I know it's really abstract, this was on my camera (I think it was a misfire while setting up), ended up messing with it, and kinda like it. It's kinda like a drunken/hungover wake up, sleepy eyed look across a sand dune landscape or something. Mrrrr, I dunno.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand pot roast!

 

[Bolas De Fraile]

View attachment 17582i cant wait for the snow to melt, clic to enlarge

 

[Soma]

vitauta: you understand! (so appreciative that you do....).

 

[Soma]

Took this in 2007. Never saw a bee do this before, or since. Love the way it has folded its little wings, one atop the other.....and spread out its arms across the petals. I call it "bee in ecstasy".

 

[vitauta]

While I know it's really abstract, this was on my camera (I think it was a misfire while setting up), ended up messing with it, and kinda like it. It's kinda like a drunken/hungover wake up, sleepy eyed look across a sand dune landscape or something. Mrrrr, I dunno.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand pot roast!

love this, tatt--from impressionism to cubism! cezanne's reward, yUMz

 

[vitauta]

View attachment 17582i cant wait for the snow to melt, clic to enlarge

who can doubt the exuberant face of nature? lovely, bolas!

 

[vitauta]

Took this in 2007. Never saw a bee do this before, or since. Love the way it has folded its little wings, one atop the other.....and spread out its arms across the petals. I call it "bee in ecstasy".

i'll never see a bee in the same way again...thank you

can that bee red clover?

 

[Soma]

what caused the strange print letters in my post above? they look whitewashed.

 

[Soma]

the flower is centaurea.

 

[taxlady]

the flower is centaurea.

I thought it was a thistle, but I see that they are thistle-like and in the same family.

 

[TATTRAT]

That's how bees dive in to get pollen

 

[jharris]

I think they dive in for the nectar and pick up pollen on their legs and bodies. The pollen is then rubbed off on the next flower.

Bees are an unwitting mechanism in the pollination process.

 

[chopper]

My Dad's new puppy.

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[chopper]

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[Dawgluver]

My Dad's new puppy.

Awwwww. What a cutie! He/she looks so pensive. Boxer?

 

[chopper]

Awwwww. What a cutie! He/she looks so pensive. Boxer?

He is a boxer. His name is Duke. My sister sent the pictures to me. I won't get to see him until August when Hubby and I go to visit.

 

[pacanis]

Nice chopper. Looks like a Blaze though