Ben Etherington
I've been twenty four years on this earth. Chicago dwelling realist/skeptic. I do crash safety research, mandolin, photography and coffee. I'm engaged to Analiese.
I've been twenty four years on this earth. Chicago dwelling realist/skeptic. I do crash safety research, mandolin, photography and coffee. I'm engaged to Analiese.
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Bees Waldo (by Ben Etherington)
What’s striped, got two thumbs and likes to hide? This bee. Except for the thumbs.
Purple Bell (by Ben Etherington)
Underexposed Rose (by Ben Etherington)
I really, really like this one.
Something about the floating text struck me as interesting.
Kris and I took a walk through the Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor this last weekend. It was a blast to wander around with a fellow photographer and talk about life and art and nature. Over the next few days, I’ll be posting the photos I took.
At one point, I mentioned my tendency to overexpose shots because while it’s a rabidly popular technique, it still looks great. Kris pointed out that underexposing has never been popular and that she didn’t think it ever would be. She went so far as to say that she had never seen an underexposed photo that looked good. Of course I took that as a challenge. I kept an eye out for shots I could underexpose. This one won.
I find buds and seeds to be fascinating. They are incredibly weighty, reaching into the future with a latent energy. The underexposing really caters to that feel.
Scientists recently discovered a rare, solitary type of bee in Turkey and Iran that makes tiny nests by plastering together flower petals. Each nest is a multicolored, textured little cocoon — a papier-mache husk surrounding a single egg, protecting it while it develops into an adult bee.
To learn more, the scientists watched the busy mama bees. Building a nest takes a day or two, and the female might create about 10 nests in total, often right next to each other. To begin construction, she bites the petals off of flowers and flies each petal — one by one — back to the nest, a peanut-sized burrow in the ground. She then shapes the multi-colored petals into a cocoon-like structure, laying one petal on top of the other and occasionally using some nectar as glue.
Biology is pretty awesome. We live on the luckiest planet within view.
Also on Flickr.
My sister Gillian at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. (Also on Flickr. Buy a print here.)
Beauty in Oklahoma City. Only slight post (i.e. black vignette layer with a multiply setting).
High res here, full on request.
