Esther's favorite photos

Sunday Challenge SC201...14/06/2026... "Every Picture Tells A Story".

New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), Bronx, NY Description provided by Gemini AI (Google): This photograph captures a striking, top-down view of scattered organic debris and vibrant blossoms floating gracefully on a dark, reflective water surface. The Palette: The arrangement features an eclectic mix of yellow and deep red orchid-like flower segments, intermingled with faded pink petals, withered brown leaves, and a few small, starkly contrasting purple star-shaped flowers. The Atmosphere: The dark background enhances the rich colors and complex textures of the botanical elements, creating a moody, dramatic, and poetic atmosphere that highlights the natural beauty found in cycles of decay and renewal. Additional Photograph of Organic Debris:

Adapted using Artificial Intelligence from a Floribunda Rose 'Bolero 2004' photographed at the New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)—June 7, 2026. In Rose in Superposition, the flower is reimagined through the language of quantum mechanics. The rose appears to rotate at extreme speed, its outer petals dissolving into luminous bands of color, while a tiny central core remains sharply resolved. This contrast between blur and clarity evokes the tension between motion and measurement. Drawing on the idea of spin as an intrinsic property rather than ordinary rotation, the work transforms the rose into a poetic hybrid of botany and physics. The petals become orbit-like fields of color, suggesting superposition, energy states, and radiant probability. What emerges is not simply a flower in motion, but a meditation on identity itself. Even in turbulence, the heart of the bloom endures.

Taubenschwänzchen - Hummingbird hawk-moth Press Z if you like - 3 Pips

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Empty barrels at Bajo Caracoles filling station. When we passed by there was no petrol to be had for hundreds of miles, they had all run empty because of a lorry driver strike (we got some at Lago Posadas from our hosteria's private emergency supplies). HFF! I'll be away for some days...

... bon dimanche serein mes amis.

Auch diesmal hab ich mit verschiedenen Farben meiner Makrolampen gearbeitet,wo diese spannenden Effekte bei diesen Blick Vorne auf die Glühbirne zustande kamen,im letzten Pip zeig ich diese vordere Ansicht der Glühbirne ohne den verschiedenen Lichtern :)) Pip1-6: Blick in die Glühbirne This time too, I worked with different colors of my macro lamps, which created these exciting effects when looking at the front of the lightbulb. In the last pip, I show this front view of the lightbulb without the different lights :)) Pips 1-6: View inside the lightbulb Cette fois encore, j'ai utilisé différentes couleurs de mes lampes macro, ce qui a créé ces effets saisissants lorsqu'on regarde l'ampoule de face. Sur la dernière photo, je montre cette vue de face de l'ampoule sans les différentes lumières :)) Photos 1 à 6 : Vue de l'intérieur de l'ampoule