Poppy Silhouette
Another post from behind the anti-deer mesh, with no mesh showing. This time I feature silhouettes of bees collecting pollen from a poppy. I found it quite striking that sometimes I could detect the colour of the bee’s wings projected onto and through the backlit petal. There was constant movement, and it reminded me of a natural Javanese shadow puppet show.
You can get a sense of that dance performance in the animated GIF below. Sorry if it is a bit slow to load, it is hard to keep size down with animations. There is a chance it might not display on screens narrower than 1024 pixels (I find I have to post them exactly the size they were created or they don’t work). Let me know if, after a reasonable amount of time for downloading a 2.4 megabyte file, there is no animation visible for you, and what device you are viewing on, I want to make these things work properly.
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Deer Fence IV
The deer mesh works well with foliage too, and foliage with blossoms. Of this set, I think the third is probably my favourite, but I did not lead with it as I like the transition from mostly green in the first image to mostly red in the last.
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Deer Fence III
The deer mesh also throws some very nice shadows on the poppies and nasturtiums that it protects (would deer eat poppies I wonder?).
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Deer Fence II
This is deer fencing. The variety my neighbours use.
For those that grow things in the garden and find them mowed to nothing overnight, it is pretty easy to get a bit of a hate on for deer (though who could hate a deer as cute as this little one?)
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Deer Fence I
This is why people want deer fencing.
My neighbour’s have a complicated arrangement of raised garden beds with frameworks over them. They have found that if they put a fine mesh over the framework, then the deer stay out. They may pull a few things through the mesh with their lips, and mow them off flush, but it leave behind more than enough for the humans. A pretty good compromise.
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Poppy Macro
More from behind the still elusive anti-deer mesh, this time some macro detail from poppy petals. These two shots are very different and don’t actually go together very well, other than as a contrast. The top is a crop from a larger image; the bottom is not cropped, a silhouette of the poppy’s inner flower parts projected onto the petals as seen from outside the flower. I like the top one best of these two.
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Cosmic Web III
Another post from the cosmic webs in my garden, previously shown in Cosmic Web, Iris Cosmos and Cosmic Web II. Again, I have chosen to present some crops from the original image, which is the last one of these four.
I am not sure which of these I like the best. The top one for the round ‘elbows’ in the web, the third one for the rainbows of light or the main photography at the bottom for its outrageous abstractness. But probably it is the subtlety of the second image, green background striated by out of focus webs in the foreground, that I would keep if I had the choice of only one. Good thing I don’t have to make that choice!
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