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Yellow water lily was a bright colored flower
I always choose dark background and under a little bit exposure
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Grazie mille a tutti per le vostre visite e commenti !
Thank you all for your visites and comments !
Followers of Fibonacci numbers & golden ratio will already know the significance of the floret of a sunflower.
Though it is said that the florets within a sunflower's head form a lovely spiral, finding one that makes a decent photograph wasn't as easy as it looks like. Most of the flowers I looked into did not display this pattern. I got the exact angles and dimensions from some searching on the internet, so here comes the interesting part: Each floret is inclined at an angle of 137.5 degrees, which is the Golden angle. This pattern is what produces the spirals observed. I fail to recollect, but the number of spirals in both directions are also numbers from the Fibonacci Sequence. Interesting, isn't it?
This also happens to be my very first non-standard crop.
Explored - #8 on July 12, 2012
Addendum: [May 16, 2014] Relevant (and fascinating) reading - jacquerie.github.io/sunflower/
"There is no climate,
no place, and scarcely an hour,
in which nature does not exhibit color
which no mortal effort can imitate or approach.
For all our artificial pigments are,
even when seen under the same circumstances,
dead and lightless beside her living color;
nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight
which trebles their brilliancy."
-John Ruskin
wasp attracted to the water in a bird bath during the recent heatwave.
I sat outside early one morning and became aware of this little wasp taking water from the dish. I sat for quite a while watching him go in and out of the waters edge.
Manque de temps chronique pour pouvoir en consacrer à mon ordinateur, mais qui me laisse tout de même le loisir de goûter aux charmes du printemps !
Bon week-end et à bientôt !
You can tell, the weather is starting to take its toll on these little guys. Their wings are starting to get tattered. And Sputnik is not helping matter, she is always sitting under the lilac tree looking for a snack. She will turn up her nose at her good food, but won't think twice about eating a butterfly. Yuk !! Oh well, the thrill of the hunt I guess.