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For many years, I lived next to a large duck pond just outside my back door and it was not uncommon to see me set up on a nearby bank. After some time, the local inhabitants seemed to accept my presence and felt safe to get closer for a better look like this curious duck.
Curious Duck
this is an extreme closeup shot of a silicon wafer that has shattered. like most hard & brittle materials, the broken fragments have scalloped patterns along the shattered edges (like broken glass). this particular fragment's pattern resembled a lightning storm and shows off an area of 0.0055 x 0.0037 inches (averaging out to the thickness of a sheet of paper).
Chrome Lightning
Whenever I'm in the mood to photograph butterflies, I try to seek out large clusters of small deep-throated flowers. They seem designed just for the mouths of butterflies and during the right season, it can make for some great photos. Typically, I setup near these flowers with all my readings made in advance and hope for something like this beautiful Clipper butterfly of the Philippines to land in front of me.
Clipper Butterfly
one of the dozens of tiny islands in the Hawaiian Islands
Island of ‘Ãlau
Looks like these two are watching each others' back preparing for a mission.
Meerkat 2
a cluster of purple vanda orchids in Brazil
Vanda Orchids
this was captured at the International Rose Test Gardens in Oregon where they have thousands of well cared for roses.
Scallops of Pink
winding access path between fields of rice in Chinese countryside.
Rice Path
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