Capture: Spring Breaks
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Jos,
Ripper photos guys!
All I have is a happy drawer
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Lilith __, in reply to
Took my close up lens, but not the tripod. Seems they best go together, with hindsight.
Tripods are for sissies! ;-)
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
All I have is a happy drawer
You need a yellow gasping face to go with that then!
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Pollenesia…
…see new sculptures
All stand for Stamen and The National Anther…
Love that blood red ferrous wheel
against bruised candyfloss pinkBut what’s really going on?
This next bit might get up your nose a bit …A typical anther contains four microsporangia. The microsporangia form sacs or pockets (locules) in the anther. The two separate locules on each side of an anther may fuse into a single locule. Each microsporangium is lined with a nutritive tissue layer called the tapetum and initially contains diploid pollen mother cells. These undergo meiosis to form haploid spores. The spores may remain attached to each other in a tetrad or separate after meiosis. Each microspore then divides mitotically to form an immature microgametophyte called a pollen grain.
The pollen is eventually released when the anther forms openings (dehiscence). These may consist of longitudinal slits, pores, as in the heath family (Ericaceae), or by valves, as in the barberry family (Berberidaceae). In some plants, notably members of Orchidaceae and Asclepiadoideae, the pollen remains in masses called pollinia, which are adapted to attach to particular pollinating agents such as birds or insects. More commonly, mature pollen grains separate and are dispensed by wind or water, pollinating insects, birds or other pollination vectors.
So, go ahead, get up close, smell those flowers…
:- )
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JacksonP, in reply to
This next bit might get up your nose a bit …
I’m not a pollen ’ater. :-)
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Oranges
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surreal thing...
...not a pollen ’ater. :-)
No, more Apollinaire!
You keep leaving all these words in your pictures for me to see in my head!
;- )and, did I mention the voices?
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JacksonP, in reply to
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Dunno about your fancy tripods, but taking pictures while driving a boat is a good way to get wonky photos. And [ahem] hit the rocks…. But a nice day for a wedding.
And for singing opera under a willow tree.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Three more.
Remains of the day… sayonara magnolia.
Daffy.
Kowhai, sans tui.
And for singing opera under a willow tree.
Looking very green, Chris. Nice day, by the looks.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Beautiful day. The skipper.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
‘Dolphins – Humans and dolphins’, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 9-Jul-13 URL: I found this image.Gay Golphin? I smells something fishy… or mammaly I suppose.
I find it amazing that nobody has followed this up. A government site foisting a photoshopped photograph by Eric Lee-Johnson on the people that pay for that site, ie. us. Let alone the copyright issues.
How would you like this to happen with one of your creations? -
Here's another error
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Beautiful day. The skipper.
Lovely picture!
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Kowhai, sans tui.
Here's today's tui then....
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Here’s today’s tui then….
ever present, everywhere,
its tui a.m. and there's no one in the place...
But, but tuimorrow never comes... -
Nora Leggs, in reply to
But, but tuimorrow never comes…
so mournful, so early in the morn…..
yesterday’s Sunday spring moon
and Sunday spring motoring
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Bruce Buckman, in reply to
Oh yay, the Kingfisher's mate just turned up this afternoon. One minute I'm hearing it's normal solitary call and then suddenly there's a new call from further away. Next thing I hear the distinctive "ack ack ack ack" sound they make when they are flying up into the Phoenix palm. I'm not sure if this is a deliberate call they make or some involuntary sound but they always do it as they fly to and from the palm tree.
So I roll my office chair carefully to the bay window so as not to spook them and there they are taking turns flying up to chip out a new nest hole.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Great bird stalking!
A few classic spring things…..
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After a couple of failed attempts to persuade the phone to focus on what I was actually looking at, I managed this.
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Islander, in reply to
Ahhh! Perfection!
A tui in full gobble in a full-flowered kowhai! -
"chris", in reply to
Welcome back
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Islander, in reply to
Thanks “chris”! It is good to feel healthy again (I dont commend full-fledged lung infections to anyone…not even Roger Douglas!)
And what a lovely dewdrop!
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"chris", in reply to
That's a very generous sentiment, may the spring bring with it spring!
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Islander, in reply to
A kind of bird& wire musical notation?
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