Uploads from WilliamBullimore, tagged waterdrops

Private Universe

nobody@flickr.com (WilliamBullimore) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:12:43 -0700

Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mk II
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Exposure: 1/60 sec
Aperture: f/20
Focal Length: 100mm
ISO Speed: 400
Accessories: Canon Speedlite 580 EX II, Manfrotto 190XB Tripod, Manfrotto 322RC2 Heavy Duty Grip Ball Head, Canon RC1 Wireless Remote
Date and Time: 1 November 2009 01.48pm

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Grevillea(1)

nobody@flickr.com (WilliamBullimore) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:13:56 -0700

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H2O

nobody@flickr.com (WilliamBullimore) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:01:58 -0800

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The flower in the refractions is an African Violet (Saintpaulia).

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If

nobody@flickr.com (WilliamBullimore) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:06:33 -0800

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One of my favourite poems is If by Rudyard Kipling:

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Here's a video of it being spoken by Dennis Hopper (!)

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Agapanthus

nobody@flickr.com (WilliamBullimore) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:27:02 -0800

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From Wikipedia:

Agapanthus ("Lily of the Nile") is a genus of flower plants with six to ten species depending on how the different species are classified. They are all herbaceous perennial plants native to South Africa. They have been placed either in the family Alliaceae, or separated into their own monogeneric family Agapanthaceae (e.g. Indices Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium).

Members of the genus have funnel-shaped flowers, in varying shades of blue colors with white flowering forms occurring. The species have been hybridized to produce additional colors in plants under cultivation. The flowers are produced in many-flowered cymes on long, erect stems called scapes, which can grow up 1 m long. The basal leaves are curved, lanceolate, and are up to 60 cm long.

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Caladium

nobody@flickr.com (WilliamBullimore) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:22:39 -0700

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From Wikipedia:

Caladium is a genus of plants of the family Araceae. They are often known by the common name elephant ear (which they share with the closely related genera Alocasia, Colocasia, and Xanthosoma), Heart of Jesus and Angel Wings. There are over 1000 named cultivars of Caladium bicolor from the original South American plant.

Special thanks to Sohaib KHAN for the following information:

"The water droplets forms spherical droplets, rather than just flow on leaves, coz of the micro and nano structure on the leave, which makes it hydrophobic, this same phenomena is used in self cleaning glasses as well!"

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Grevillea

nobody@flickr.com (WilliamBullimore) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:29:52 -0800

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From Wikipedia:

Grevillea is a diverse genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae, native to Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Sulawesi. It was named in honour of Charles Francis Greville. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 0.5 m tall to trees 35 m tall. Common names include Grevillea, Spider Flower, Silky-oak and Toothbrush.

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Jewel

nobody@flickr.com (WilliamBullimore) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:52:38 -0800

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I can't stop listening to Jewel's latest album, "Stronger Woman". Here's a link to a video of the title song.

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Life Giving

nobody@flickr.com (WilliamBullimore) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:20:43 -0800

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"A drop of water opens my eyes to the explosive possibilities of life! Shattering on impact into a myriad life giving droplets, it goes on sharing itself with the world".

By Jean Sietzema Dickson. Here's a link to her website at Poetica Christi.

Special thanks to the two people who have bought items of yesterday's photo. I now have $12.90 to donate to Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal.

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Lily of the Nile

nobody@flickr.com (WilliamBullimore) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:29:42 -0800

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Here's another photo that I took of the Agapanthus.

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