New Scientist released the finalists for this year's International Garden Photographer of the year and with it they posted up a gallery of the images. Some of these, well all of them really, are visually stunning and quite breathtaking. This one right here is a recently emerged dragonfly, specifically its wings, right now to their line patterns.
And what looks like animal pattern fabric purchased straight from Jo Ann fabrics is in reality the wings of a garden tiger moth. It's amazing how close and precise photographs can get, right down to the filaments and fibers of this moth. When I first saw this I had no idea what to make of it, but the longer you stare the more it looks exactly like what it is - the moth's wings.
These two below, I think, are probably my favorite of the whole group. The common blue butterfly from Poland on the left has this surreal not-quite-a-photograph and not-quite-a-painting quality to it that I really love. And the lone tree in a sprawling, open Montana field, with the juxtaposition of those giant monolithic fortresses behind them, is such an awe-inspiring image of minimalism tucked amidst a setting of nature's enormity.
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i know that dragonfly is supposed to be pretty and all but to be honest, it kinda grosses me out. it gives me heebie jeebies. *shudder*
ReplyDeleteon an unrelated note, ive been retyping the same first three pages of my paper over and over again bc i can't figure out how to structure it. kmn.
p.p.s. i do like that yellow tree though.
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