A small shy spider

Another one only shot. It was small, suspicious and never kept still. The markings are interesting - are those camouflage white eyes on the body?

Return visit

The one and only shot I got of this incursion. Its bright white eye is agleam - click the image for full size. This rounds out the entries for 20 Feb.

Fractal flames

Fractal flame images are rendered with the ingenious and time-worthy Apophis application. The parameters are tweakable for time and space. My tinkerings are a relentless selective breeding, culling, rotating, realigning, cycling through time until there's a stark but complex simplicity.

I put together a simple Y! Pipe viewer for all of the sub galleries at : http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=Mm26hJn93RGuTVqMBBNMsA which I think is public.

An embedded link to PicasaWeb may be more reliable

From Fractal Flames 1

A close encounter

I developed a custom captioned viewer for some shots of a small lizard down at 117 V St. Quite suitable really, a pity it can't be dropped in here.

From the archives, 27 December 2007.

Birds on a curved iron roof

Did you hear the one about the pigeons, the ibis and the magpie? They are watching a small morsel slide irretrievably down the steep curve of the roof near the bottom left of shot. The lofty ibis has already given up; the nonchalant pigeons are keenly watching from a safe distance, but the magpie is still slip sliding down, reluctant to abandon it.

It leaps into the air but the morsel has gone to earth.

So it flies up and lands among the others, acting all cranky, causing them to scatter.

The magpie asserts its dominance along the top. Soon it gets among them and harries them off. Then it sings and dances, always moving, throat feathers fluffed out. It has all sorts of moves and body shapes to accompany full throated shrieks.

Always a pleasure to get shots of this avian whirlwind.