This little deal fell off of a local tree, it's soft and fuzzy and seems to have tiny seeds in it. It's about 2cm long and of course looks strange when we look up close!
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Showing posts with label fuzzy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fuzzy. Show all posts
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Yet Another Weird Seed Pod Thing
This little deal fell off of a local tree, it's soft and fuzzy and seems to have tiny seeds in it. It's about 2cm long and of course looks strange when we look up close!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Hairy Sunflower Leaves
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I've become fascinated with the sunflowers on our kitchen table. Their stems and leaves are covered with tiny hairs (like many plants I've observed), and wicked spotty patterns.
While these photos are not not going to be in my show for the Hoboken Studio Tour this Sunday, you should still come by and say hi! I'll be in the Monroe Center, Studio E417, from noon to 6pm. Go to the 4th floor, and turn left coming out of the elevator. My show is called Tiny Lab.
While these photos are not not going to be in my show for the Hoboken Studio Tour this Sunday, you should still come by and say hi! I'll be in the Monroe Center, Studio E417, from noon to 6pm. Go to the 4th floor, and turn left coming out of the elevator. My show is called Tiny Lab.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Grass Seed Stalk
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We've looked at grass seed stalks before when they were fresh picked and green. Here is the same thing, dried and after dropping all the seeds. The stalk has changed color to a deep ruby, and the little caps that had secured the seeds to the stalk are all that's left. Very cool, I didn't know what to expect, and it's fascinating!
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Fuzzy Flowers, Part 1
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The fuzzy flowers above were blooming on a tree—what kind, I don't know just yet. I like their fuzziness, and their almost acrylic-like sheen and twinkle. Like Barbie hair.
They were about the size of large BBs. In the closer shot below, you get a better view of the shining strands of a blossom. One detail I noticed, only after reviewing these photos later, were the odd little white spheres buried among the fuzzies. All the flowers had those tiny balls in them. I've included a detail at the bottom of this post. I am at a loss as to what they are.
Seeds? Insect eggs? Something else? I don't know, you tell me what you think they are!
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Fuzzy Shoulder Pads are So Hot Right Now
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Back to the bugs!
Violet found this guy on the outside stairs at the Muskoka cottage, and thought it looked like a bee. I'm pretty sure it's some sort of scarab beetle or hairy scavenger beetle. I have not had luck specifically identifying it yet. It was about the size of a dime or smaller.
I do dig the superfly fuzzy shoulder armor, and I think the texture of the shell-like wings is pretty cool, see below. Good colors and nice Turtle Wax too.
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Below is a slightly more artsy shot showing some diffraction or chromatic aberration from my janky lens setup. I am intrigued by the beetle's fancy antennae.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Fly Me to the Moon, or Right Into a Lightbulb, if You're a Moth
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And here come the creepier crawlers!
Above is the face of a moth. This was a rather small moth, actually. A larger moth would have had a larger head with more "feathers" and bigger eyes. However, I am happy with this shot anyway, because it's pretty much in sharp focus. Which is hard for such a tiny thing.
In other tiny-things-in-sharp-focus news, below is some sort of fly on a leaf. Maybe I'll find it's actually a bee and have to correct it like my last post.
One interesting detail I noticed is the little fly feet. I guess I've never seen or noticed what fly feet look like. Take a look at them, they're two little claw things, and two sticky pads. This particular fly appears to be missing the claw/pads on its left middle leg.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Portals to Other Worlds
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Continuing with our plant theme, I've got a few that look like entries to other worlds or other dimensions. In a way, these actually are exactly that, entries to a diminutive dimension inside the blooms.
Above and at bottom are a couple shots of pollen stands greeting our journey inside the flower. Just below here are the complicated folds of a marigold. I've stripped the color from the marigold since we all know what they look like anyway, and removing the color helped emphasize many of the details of the marigold petals.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Hairy Plant Parts
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Plants seem to often be covered with a fine transparent fur. Stamens and stalks and fruits and leaves show this on close inspection. Here are a few photos to prove it!
Above is from the inside of a flower. The photo below is a very tiny early tomato, and below that, a stalk from a tomato plant, which clearly hasn't shaved in at least a week.
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
Weird Seedy Flowery Things
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Violet and I made it our mission today to find tiny things at the park that we could shoot in macro. So we searched through rocks and leaves and flowers, and found the strange thing above.It appears to be a strange seed case or flower bud or something. We like that it is fuzzy. It's actually quite small, which made examining it at the park a little difficult. But we were pretty sure it would be cool when we photographed it. When magnified, it looks like a ball with bed head.
I'm going to try to include a small reference image for my macro shots, as you can see to the left. This will help you to get a better idea of the size of the things we are looking at close up.
Below is another photo of the weird bed head ball.
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Then, we found something that looked like the bed head ball, cracked open and blooming. I don't know if it actually is a next-stage bed head ball or what, but that's what our imagination has decided. You can see this below and judge for yourself! Here's the reference image of the weird bed head ball flower, to the left. |
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Peach Fuzz, and the Knife to Slice it
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That's pretty much all I got to say about that. You've got some of your basic peach fuzz up there (V says, "I wike da futhz"), and your basic sharpened chef's knife edge below. If you look close enough, the little fuzz strands are clear.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board
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The delicate features of a feather. These are the tiny strands that interlock with eachother like velcro to form the uniform surface of the feather. With time and use, those little hairy strands get worn off and lose their strength, and the feather gets fluffy, just in time to be molted.
I like how the photo below bears a resemblance to the teeth of a comb.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
World's Largest Bellybutton Fuzz
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Not bellybutton fuzz. I lied for effect.
However, this being my first post in a week, breaking my very impressive streak of posting multiples a week since November, I decided to continue taking liberties with the trust of my readers. This fuzz is not of the bellybutton. No.
This sucker came from the dryer's lint catch. Apparently we own more red, blue, green and purple clothing than we knew. It doesn't look like that going through the closet. The generally heavy pink cast of the Great Fuzz® above is due to the girls' wardrobe, I'm sure.
Check out how gnarly those little fibers are. Interesting how they mesh to make something that looks generally grey at normal magnification. The big long pieces are strands of dog fur, I'm pretty sure, black and white, like Dashie.
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