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posted: July 4th, 2005 |
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Okay, we continue from June 18th at Hama Rikyu Gardens and continue through a trip to Tama Zoo and the end of the month on this page. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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Here, we are still in Hama Rikyu Gardens. First shot is looking across the pond into some BIG buildings! The 2nd and 3rd shots are Hydrangea bushes.
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This row is still Hama Rikyu Gardens on June 18th. There are 2 Hydrangea bushes and some Hydrangea flower parts on the ground - looks like small pieces of strange blue glass.
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The first 2 pictures are the final ones for Hama Rikyu Gardens on June 18th - a plant without chlorophyll, very small - you can get an idea of the scale by comparing it to the grass which is surrounding it.
The 2nd shot is an Iris - I set the light conditions for the flowers and then used PhotoShop to lighten up the greenery. The 3rd shot is June 19th at the Tama Zoo - inside of the "Insectarium" - lots of butterflies.
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Rows 4, 5 and 6 are all in the Insectarium on June 19th. Here are three different kinds of butterflies.
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Here are 3 more kinds of butterflies.
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Here is a hummingbird inside of the Insectarium, and a really strangely friendly butterfly - first, it's on my pack and then it went to Kazuya's hand. Finally was able to put it on some kids hand.
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Here is the final butterfly from June 19th, and then a Spiranthes sinensis orchid at the Tama River on June 25th.
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Here we have some special work with the Takao Violet (Viola yezoensis f. discolor) Flowers and Plants. These pictures were taken in April. It took a LOT of erasing in PhotoShop to create these images.
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On June 29th a Takao Violet in a pot opened another one of it's seedpods. This generally happens in the early morning, but today it happened late in the afternoon, so
I tried to do some time lapse photography. My camera has an intervalometer built into it, so I started out having it take a picture every 8 minutes. Then I upped it to every 5 minutes. I had to go to work
before the process was complete, so when I got back at 9:00 PM I had lots of totally black images. I had over 60, though, which showed the process. I sorted and deleted and here in the first photo you can see the essential parts of the seedpod opening and seed dispersal,
along with the time. If you'd like to see an animated gif slide show (23 images) then CLICK HERE for the 6.72 Megabyte animated gif. Each of the 23 images will display for 8 seconds, so you'll probably have to watch it more than one time to be able to study everything you want to study.The 2nd shot, of my DVD shelf, is already out of date! Here is a link to my entire DVD collection if you're asking yourself what might be good to rent for the weekend! CLICK HERE. The DVD's will be sorted by date purchased. You can click on title to sort that way if you desire. This link will open a new browser window. |
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