Just a Flashlight

I just thought this turned out kind of beautiful. It's really a very plain macro photo of the reflective cone inside a flashlight. The patterns fascinate me and I like it's sense of luminance.

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Grass Seed Stalk

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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A Couple o' Nuts

These are acorns, I swear. Mimi and Violet found them at the park and wanted me to shoot them. So I did.

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Weird Beach Thing #2

We found this on a beach on Long Island and it is just so bizarre. It is about the size of a silver dollar, matte black, pointy, and very hard. However it is light, like it's hollow inside.

At first, I thought it was a strange squished blob of tar that had hardened, or a piece of a toy that had snapped off. I briefly thought it might be an alien egg casing, planted on Long Island so they may begin their takeover of Earth there.

But the bristly strange circular opening makes me think none of these guesses are correct.

Now, I think it's likely a seed casing for weird underwater plants. But i've never seen anything like this before. It's truly bizarre.

{CORRECTION: Thanks to a lead from Kenon, we now know this is a water chestnut seed, apparently reeking havoc to underwater plantlife here in the northeast.}

If you have any idea at all what this could be, let me know!

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Weird Beach Thing #1

Here's a thing our friends found on the beach, and suggested for a Morning Macro post. It appears to me to be a sort of coral or barnacle. It looks like a white rock with these segmented pockmarks, which I assume are the homes of the little beasties who made the thing.

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If I had a nickel for every time I heard that

More closeups of a nickel. Once again, there are no hard edges in the small world. No lines. Everything is round-edged, round cornered, lumpy, chipped, dented. This looks like a coin unearthed from the ancient Romans, but it's just one of our US coins, only 10 or 20 years of wear has beaten it to this condition.

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