MobiColour RESULT: MC #118 Theme: Colour in Nature - April 30-May 6

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I usually find sunset/sunrise images a bit clichéd, but this is effing brilliant with those buildings in the background. I see it as a dystopian futuristic image with those buildings ruined and smoking from some cataclysmic occurrence :alien:
The drugs have stopped working then John. Time to up the dosage methinks.:lol:
 
Ahem. I thought dragonfly on account of the wings held horizontal to the body as opposed to vertical in damselflies. Don’t tell me I wasted that hour on Google :mobibabe:

I would never say that time spent learning stuff online was wasted, even if I might not choose google to do it. Yes, dragonflies hold their wings out horizontally while damselflies Park their wings tight against the body in a more or less vertical angle, but across the wing not the length of it.
 
I posted a b/w version of this previously, but I don't think I ever posted the color version here. The rays of light stand out so clearly because the air was full of smoke from a forest fire 20 or 30 miles away.

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Walk in the redwoods
Snapseed, ACDSee Pro, Mextures
 
I posted a b/w version of this previously, but I don't think I ever posted the color version here. The rays of light stand out so clearly because the air was full of smoke from a forest fire 20 or 30 miles away.

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Walk in the redwoods
Snapseed, ACDSee Pro, Mextures
Magical.:inlove:
 
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African daisy (Osteospermum)
Macro lens, Snapseed, ACDSee Pro

I find I’m quite intrigued by these naturally occurring colour combinations. They attract the particular pollinators for this type of flower and I wonder how it looks to those insects. But then, a significant portion of their colour vision is outside of what humans can see.
 
I find I’m quite intrigued by these naturally occurring colour combinations. They attract the particular pollinators for this type of flower and I wonder how it looks to those insects. But then, a significant portion of their colour vision is outside of what humans can see.
Insects can't see reds and can see into the ultraviolet.
Maybe they look something like this to them: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=o...runaAhXrDcAKHQeXBegQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=974
 
Insects can't see reds and can see into the ultraviolet.
Maybe they look something like this to them: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=o...runaAhXrDcAKHQeXBegQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=974

I’m not sure what I’m supposed to see in the link.
I think it would be more correct to say many insects cannot are red. Bees can see red as well as some spiders (OK, spiders are not true insects), and they do have vision extending into ultra-violet. Since flowers have evolved to attract specific pollinators their colours and invisible marking are obviously not made for humans.
https://natureodes.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/see-like-a-bee-ultraviolet-flower-photography-2/

http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_flowers_list.html
 
I posted a b/w version of this previously, but I don't think I ever posted the color version here. The rays of light stand out so clearly because the air was full of smoke from a forest fire 20 or 30 miles away.

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Walk in the redwoods
Snapseed, ACDSee Pro, Mextures

Wow. Even more stunning than the b&w— and that was gorgeous.
 
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