I love looking closely at things, especially in the forest. where upon closer inspection things that are not so pretty can become beautiful At least I think so.
Look closer at these conifer needles. Something has been eating on them.
This Cats Ear seed head had been trampled on and now has an interesting shape. The leaf behind it has an awesome pattern to it cause by a hungry insect
This is a rotting stump, it could have been here for a hundred years.
It's even kinda cool looking from a distance. Between insects, fungus, bear, kids among others are helping it return to the earth from which it came.
A close up of a fallen tree I had to straddle one one of my walks.
Cats Claws seed heads are cool looking too. Ever notice the common names of a lot of wildflowers have some feline name or another in them ?
Stepping back and looking there's a lot of texture in everything around me.
Just look at this spot where a spring bubbles out of the earth. You can barely make out the water because of all the plant life that crowds around it.
Olympus C2500L
July 2009
Reecer Creek Canyon area, Kittitas County, Washington State
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I like opening up two or three photos in software like Photoshop, pasting then over the top of each other and then fiddling with the transparency. Because I don’t really know what I’m doing, it’s always a surprise how the colours and textures interact in the different layers. I can waste hours doing it.
I really like like your rotten stump pics.
I'm almost ready to post my fungus - enchanted forest - wildflower pics. Maybe next week. It takes forever, because I like to fiddle with the pics.
Great ones by the way!!
yes, aphids. I can see a few white dot's at the bottom, and 2 leaves above the eaten ones, I saw another aphid.
Three leaves on the same side, I saw some sort of small fly. That I can not tell what it is/was. But the solution is simple, get praying mantis eggs. They will chomp on them bad critters like a starving man at an all you can eat buffet. Plus it is nature helping to get rid of bad nature.
I know that the mantis like a pine tree to lay t's eggs, but I do not know what SPECIFIC type so that there will be more next year.
Thanks Ed