Post some random photos you took yourself here....

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two rainbows :0
And one is super bright!

^cool!

I'm quite embarrassed by the quality of the photos I took today but heck.... I promised to post some of the place I work.

It's was a real sunny day here and quite a few photos had way too much light (overexposure) on them (lousy sentence but hey). I let the diafragma open for too long. Um, this one had to be photoshopped big time to get a somewhat arty picture (or crap)


This one shows a little of the field and the hothouse I work in and around. Image (if that's possible(?)) 8 of those round roofs of glass next to each other.

The multiplying/ reproducing of plants. We cut a slip, a cutting, let it grow roots in the hothouse and eventually let the single plant grow outside. A four phase system. After that folks can buy the plants for ridiculous low prices or in case of flowers folks here make flower pieces, bouquets, emblems, what have you using the flowers.

Probably the most interesting photo I ever took.

^
(Should that photo not be in the 'adult section'?)
(Sorry, stupid joke.... and yet he can't refuse/ help himself)

Um, a photo of a 'forget-me-not' with it's tiny flowers.

Nice pic, but I hate wasps Did you kill them afterwards?

I bought these Brugmansias three weeks ago (probably a third as big). I like 'luscious' plants with big leaves and flowers. (on page one of this thread there's a picture of one in bloom)

Of course not! They haven't done anything to me. And it was me basically sitting in THEIR nest for a couple of hours (which was admittedly a risky idea in the first place, and some of the onlookers actually panicked, though of course that didn't keep them from gawking), not the other way around. They'd have had a reason to harm me, not me them. But as long as you keep still while they're crawling all over you, and you don't open your mouth under any circumstances (that one is important since wasp stings in the windpipe are usually deadly), these animals are completely harmless. They don't attack anything larger than other bugs unless they feel threatened.
Besides, killing them would have been something like.. a sacrilege? (Even though I'm not religious.) It would have felt wrong.
I like all kinds of insects. Not to the point of an "aspie special interest", but I also tend to feed ants and watch them for hours.

That's really cool. XD
I always want to take pictures of bugs but my camera doesn't focus that close. Do you have a fancy camera or something?

PS "wasp stings in the windpipe are usually deadly), these animals are completely harmless." lol, nice. But you're right, everyone acts like they're gonna fly right up and sting you any chance they get, but they never do.

That would be worth a photo itself: someone sitting in a wasp nest.

Cockatoos

My camera is a Canon PowerShot S3 IS meaning it's not exactly the newest or fanciest one but still usable. Not on a professional level, though. Unfortunately, to take photos of bugs, I have to get near them in a distance of 5 cm, which is sort of difficult without seriously upsetting them. Fortunately, I'm good at moving slowly and holding my heands steady. Still, I'd LOVE to have a better camera.

And really - wasps ARE harmless. I've never been stung by one, and when I was a child, I even used to take them in my hand. The main danger is accidentally swallowing them, in which case they will (rightfully) feel threatened and sting. And the windpipe swelling shut is dangerous.
People usually only get stung by wasps if they panic and try to swat them. Wasps don't like sudden movement. Same applies to hornets (those are, by the way, usually even less aggressive - I really don't know why so many people are scared of them). Bees are a lot more dangerous, but since they're considered "useful", nobody is scared of THEM - which of course is perfectly irrational.
Or, of course, if someone is dumb enough to drink out of a lemonade or juice bottle outside without using a drinking straw. (Though one might say someone with that lack of life skills shouldn't ever be left alone unsupervised, but anyway...) I think that one makes about 90% of insect sting casualties, the other 10% being people with allergies.



Haha, yes - maybe some of the onlookers even took photos, I don't know. I couldn't very well ask them since that would have involved opening my mouth. Which would have been worthy of a Darwin Award.
By the way, the cockatoo photo is awesome.


And since so many people expressed an interest, here's another of the photos I took. A wasp feeling murderous. It's attacking a.. something... I'm not an expert on bugs, but I suspect it's something like a shield bug. (If someone wants to correct me, go ahead!)

Hello world: an excerpt from a bigger photo. A wasp looking out of one of the entrances of the subterranean nest.


In case you're wondering: subterranean nests aren't uncommon for wasps at all. In this case, it looks like they found an uninhabited formicary and decided to settle there. (Or found an inhabited one and massacred everyone inside. Not likely, though - ants are vicious and most likely going to win that sort of conflict through sheer numbers.) Wasps are also known to live in uninhabited mouse holes and such.

Here's a pic of my strawberry plants. The first two ripe fruits, the strawberries, have been eaten by a jay (which is a beautiful bird, quite smart also, but.... bugger). I know it was him (or her) for I saw it happening an hour ago. (I was too late to take a picture to get the thief caught in action) But hey.... this is how he left it....

I'm not very good at taking pictures, but I figure I'd share anyway:

This is a picture of a rainbow I took outside of my parents' window:



I tried taking a picture of a candle and cottage cheese (!?) because of the reflections in the glass. At the time I thought I was being pretty 'artistic'...:



One of my favorite photos, a family of origami seals I made myself:



And what group of pictures would be complete without the cat? Her name is Miss Kitty and she's 8 years old: