4th of July Firework Flowers Superpost! Happy Birthday America!

In celebration of Independence Day, I'm posting a bunch of macro pics of flowers and flower parts that look like fireworks. I'll skip the penny comparison for these. Just go ahead and enjoy the show! Happy Birthday USA!

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The Rest of the Weird Plant Things That Violet and I Found

Alright, here's the rest of the weird stuff V and I found at the park. A strange pit-like thing covered in spines, some brown, some green. It looked like an alien egg or something.

I guess I'm too lazy to figure out what these things are. A google might turn up an answer. Or maybe not.

We found a really strange thing at the beach the other day. Totally strange and alien. I don't have a photo of it, but we think it's a seed pod or something.

And that's what these things appear to be too.

Here's the other seed pod thing. Again, with the size comparison on a penny, I think it's helpful!

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Weird Seedy Flowery Things

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.

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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Icy Beer Frost

I had placed a beer in the freezer last night to cool it off quicker, then forgot about it. Took it out tonight, completely frozen. The bottle immediately began to frost over, so I shot it in macro.

In the photo above, you see the script "s" at the end of the Sam Adams' debossed in glass on the bottle, covered in condensation frost. Below is another shot of the side of the bottle. Below that is a 100% crop detail of the photo, so you can see the ice crystals that make up the frost.

To the naked eye, the frost appeared to be a uniform and smooth matte white coating. In macro/micro, the frost appears to be irregular and lumpy, though I had expected it to be a little more crystalline.

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I'd like to order a Tab, please

I found this on the dresser. It's the plastic tab from a store price tag which had been removed from recently purchased clothing. I've posted it today because even this most pedestrian little item is interesting to see magnified.

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The Fabric of our Lives™

Had a request/suggestion for a macro/micro photo (yay!, thanks Peta). This is a cotton ball, all made up of gnarly little strands. You can see that while the cotton strands above appear white, they are actually clear like cellophane noodles.

Below is another shot of the cotton, showing the clear strands a little better. And below that, a crop of the center section of this photo, which clearly shows (no pun intended) that the strands are not white. Rather, these twisty fibers reflect light on many curving and bending facets, making them appear white to the naked eye.

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Squishy Foam!

This is foam, close-up; the soft stuff used to protect fragile things. I use this as padding for one of my lenses in a small hard case. It looks grey when viewed with your eyes. At this level of magnification, we see the beautiful little prismatic bubbles that make up the structure of the foam. Cool!

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Peach Fuzz, and the Knife to Slice it

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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