Think Tank

Pictures from a summer morning 3 years ago. 12th of August 2020.

Albert Dros

Carpenter bee, Xylocopa sp., possibly subgenus Maiella, almost certainly a male given the coloring

Photographed in the Philippines by KitchilPus

Trillium grandiforum

I'm doing an independent study for school where I'm collecting plants, identifying them and creating mounted herbarium specimens. I love doing any kind of identifying but plants are my favorite and I've wanted to do herbarium specimens since I first learned of them. There's no question what species this lovely showy trillium is, but I keyed it out anyway as practice. I definitely recommend to anyone learning to use dichotomous keys to key the organisms that you know, that's how learn where you are likely to make mistakes when you are keying out an unknown species.

That aside aside; I couldn't resist taking a sneak peek at this one, I think it turned out rather well given that it's a rather complex flower and it was one of the first I pressed.

10.20.21

Mystic Path, Shinjuku 新宿

Good luck !

Inner Light, Shibuya 渋谷

Mexico, Shinjuku 新宿

Chidorigafuchi Moat - Tokyo, Japan

Information Wall (with Hat)

Eurasian red squirrels/ekorrar. Värmland, Sweden (August 12, 2023).

Paint Me Away

Sometimes I just want to disappear into the canvas, vanish beneath layers of paint, and become something more beautiful than reality.

Snake mantis, Kongobatha diademata, Nanomantidae

Photographed at Airlie Beach in Australia by Steve & Alison1

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葛仙村gexiancun, shangrao上饶, jiangxi江西 by popinthehouse