Monday in Nature Weekly Photo Oct. 7, 2013

[Laura Weishaupt]

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<p ><strong >Basic Guidelines for Photo of the Week</strong>: Nature based subject matter. Please, declare captive subjects. Keep your image at/under 700 pixels on the long axis for in-line viewing and try to keep file size under 300kb. Note that this includes photos hosted off-site at Flicker, Photobucket, your own site, etc. <em >In the strictest sense, nature photography should not include hand of man elements. Let common sense be your guide and we'll work out the details as we go forward.</em> Do you have a series of great shots to compliment your post? Please, tell us where they are so we can see them.</p>

<p ><strong ><em >Let's make this a true Photo of the Week and only post 1 image per week.</em></strong></p>

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<p ><em >This week I've dropped POTW from the heading. MiN should show up on the front page as a most active thread based on numbers, yet never has. I'd like to see if dropping the POTW makes any difference. We all appreciate a good experiment. We'll see what happens.</em></p>

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<p>Good Monday Morning,<br>

We used to write correspondence and school papers on an Underwood. We'd visit a library or archive to study and do research. We shot film. Along came computers and so much changed. Contributors to MiN are on many continents and in all directions. We're not even on the same day, but here, we're on the same page. If we were in a photo club, how often could we meet, really? We can find information so quickly, and our images are there, NOW. The very unnatural internet is the tool that we use to come together and share images of the natural world we love so much.</p>

<p>Without resources available on line I don't think I would have ever identified the fungi in my opening shot. I've been attracted to the oddball stuff lately, and I thought this pretty brown fuzz was another slime mold. Microscopic details said otherwise and it was game on. This is <em>Haplotrichum simile</em>. The genus is an anamorph of the genus <em>Botryobasidium</em>. I don't have these books on my shelf, but wires, processors and very cold hard ware helped me figure out the nature of this warm fuzzy brown stuff.</p>

<p>Point your compass to Monday, wherever you are. What's going on in your end of nature?</p><div></div>

[Rick Bortnick]

<p>My end of nature was texture - a small rock weed among its rocks.</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>A recent find from Austin, Texas. Sorry, I don't know the name.</p><div></div>

[mbkissel]

<p>High humidity, cool nights, fog...the perfect recipe for some dew drops yesterday morning.</p>

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[jonathan_parkhouse1]

<p>This is P<em>antilius tunicatus</em>, a plant bug from the Miridae family. We've had a couple in the garden this last week or so. They tend to turn up at this time of year, signalling, alas, the approaching end of the bug-hunting season. Identification of bugs would be tricky without the internet; there is no readily accessible printed field guide to all the Hemiptera/ true bugs in the UK, but the britishbugs website is an excellent resource.</p><div></div>

[RickDB]

<p>Yesterday I spotted this colourful wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi) showing her underside against a concrete wall - this morning she had relocated in front of the kitchen window posing against a background of pink flowers. Perfect! 5D2 / EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS / 12mm extension tube / off camera flash; 1/60s @ f/8.0 ISO 800</p><div></div>

[Lou_Meluso]

<p>Nice spider, Rick.</p>

<p>A leaf desperately clings to it's tree, the source of it's life. But Fall is a Grim Reaper who gives no quarter.</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>From Radio Road, Redwood Shores, California.</p><div></div>

[Bill C1664885404]

<p>Recently on a bright sunny day, I was resting on the tailgate of my SUV alongside a field.<br />This beauty showed up working a "Goldenrod" about 25 feet away, presenting me with a "golden opportunity". <br />Grabbed a camera out of the bag and was able get a few handheld shots while leaning against the car.<br />Not 'tack sharp' but pleasing to my eye.....Sony NEX-7 with Canon FD 300/4.0 @ 4.0, ISO400, 1/2500<br /> <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/roundball/PHOTOGRAPHY/INSECTS/B-FD300mm4040Butterfly358CROPPEDand1C_zps3f25ea52.jpg" alt="" /></p>

 

[nick_davis]

<p>A redtail hawk</p><div></div>

[biomed]

<p>Haven't been out much this past week but managed to take this photo at the local park just before the rainy weather set in which lasted for most of the weekend. The Fall colors are just beginning to show up here in central Connecticut.</p>

<center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17550767-md.jpg" alt="fallcolors" width="680" height="453" border="0" /></center>

[kts]

<p>hello, my name is Thom......i'm a photo junkie</p>

<p>all those cards from NM to upload and go thru and i'm out filling up old 2gb cards with more.....:)</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>Although there is the hint of the hand of man in this one, I thought the unusual view of this praying mantis that greeted me was worth bending the rules a little -</p><div></div>

[dcstep]

<p><strong>Light-morph red-tail hawk</strong></p>

<p><a title="Light-morph red-tail hawk by dcstep, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3677/10110106584_1f15b07a11_c.jpg" alt="Light-morph red-tail hawk" width="800" height="800" /></a></p>

[User_6667263]

<p>Cooper's Hawk sitting in a stream. I have never seen a hawk in water before.</p><div></div>

[stemked]

<p>Beautiful fall colors starting here in Indiana and that is obviously showing up in the forum. Still a few critters around here, including these Milkweed bugs, <em>Oncopeltus fasciatus</em>, appropriately on milkweed. <br /><br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17549584-lg.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="700" /><br>

Pentax K5iis, 100mm macro, slightly cropped. f11 (I think), </p>

[DawsonPointers]

<p>Greetings from the depths of northern Ontario.<br>

Perce Rock, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. At one time, there were 2 openings created in the limestone by wave action. The second collapsed in 1845 leaving the obelisk.</p><div></div>

[philrichardson]

<p>Here is an immature female Vermilion Flycatcher. It's hatch year for this one.</p><div></div>

[David_Cavan]

<p>Back to business travel this past week, so I'm dipping a few years back into the archives for a swallowtail vigorously shopping in our flowerbeds in Virginia.</p><div></div>

[birdied]

<p>Good Monday to everyone ! Fantastic shots.<br>

The female butterflies are busy laying their eggs all around the garden. I planted the Cassia Alata (Candle Bush) host plant for the sulphur butterflies. I saw this one laying her eggs on the plant.<br>

If anyone can tell me the type of sulphur this is I would greatly appreciate it.<br>

D800 500mm f/4 with 12mm extension tube.</p>

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[Gup]

<p>Nine Monarch caterpillars at work.</p><div></div>

[wayne_wrights]

<p>This weeks image is of a bull elk in a small branch. He laid down and wallered in the mud like he was taking a bath. </p><div></div>

[MarcelRomviel]

<p>Great photos again this week.<br>

I have one from a month ago in the butterfly house in the Blijdorp Zoo.</p><div></div>

[pieter_nel1]

<p>Wonderful photos to mull over and knowledge gained. I am getting to the smaller things albeit a relative of the elephant.</p>

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[Edwin Barkdoll]

<p>Shot in Acadia National Park during gov shutdown.</p><div></div>