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Gardening/Greenery/Garden Insects | My Indoor and Outdoor Photography
BLUE SKY WITH THE FLOWERS
By livelifeandlove on December 18, 2013If you spot something beautiful around,as if, they are calling you to get closer. This is it! As shown here, flowers with the bright sky background.To view it, it is something that will refresh to welcome the day. The beauty of nature and the sky bright does work it out for you and me.
Who among the people in this present generation doesn’t know about Facebook? Using social networking sites is the fastest and easiest communication to connect with friends especially to those relatives living abroad. Social networking sites available in the internet basically connect friends and relatives all over the world. All you have to do is to sign up for an account, it takes only 10 minutes to do it, you can immediately search for friends. How easy to locate whereabouts of old friends and be surprised to see them after those long years.You might be curious on how they look like, it would be fun to get the latest updates from them too. Aside from Application services provided in the internet such as; Viber, Whats App and Tango, all family members has its own Twitter, Tumbler, Instagram and Facebook.
Almost all friends in my facebook list were former classmates here and abroad, few family friends, business associates, neighbors ,cousins and some close relatives. Facebook is good if you are wiser enough to keep yourself and your family safe by using the privacy setting. There’s a lot of options to choose from, you can control everything,who will see your status, photos, and who will post on your wall. That’s one disadvantage, and how about the disadvantages of using Facebook? Oh! That would be my next topic next post.
Recently, I’ve found my former best friend I haven’t seen for long years.I cannot even recall our last meeting we had before. I’m glad, She’s happy living with her own family in America now. Day after,She provided list of close friends to add on. For other friends, I was so desperate to think about some of my close friends just disappeared because of responsibilities until, Facebook made us closer back again. Thanks to That! Here’s another, website of mine to connect and share my thoughts and ideas.
Finally, My FB list of friends is almost complete, Definitely,Facebook is the place to collect all my friends and store them in. My former classmates in school before are now my present Facebook classmate although, we got different time schedule online. It’s fun and enjoyable to get latest updates and non-stop messages from them.It keeps me going! It will only happen here,I’ve gathered l my friends all-together in one place, Our best meeting place, Facebook!
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Beehive
By livelifeandlove on November 8, 2013I’ve discovered a sticky beehive inside the tall rocks in the garden.This is a natural beehive and not a man-made.I was amazed to see for the first time a great number of young honeybees inside the beehive.This is where the stinging honeybees stored their wax cells for rainy food. I’m just curious about their nesting areas.One thing I loved about bees behavior is they know how to adjust to certain environment,they collect honey during dry days and save it. Just a way of getting ready ahead of time.
Beehive is dark brown in color, sticky and very shiny. The visible structure is durable, good enough to protect the young honeybees inside the hole. With too many holes in uniformed sizes, other holes appeared to be full of honey and some holes for the nesting site of the young ones.
Honeybees as an agent of pollination.
With this discovery,I’ve completed the full version of my articles, It’s all about honeybees, their everyday routine as an agent of pollination, body structure, my morning bonding with honeybees as my subject of photography and many more… Just don’t forget the importance of what has been contributed previously, my attempt to disturb this honeybees for five minutes in order to take few shots. I’m a honeybee lover and I never plan to drive them away.I will just let them stay behind and let the future takes its place.
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To view honeybees as my morning subject of photography.
I was even surprised to see queen bee making honeycomb.The wax secreted in order to make this certain structure.
Sunny sheltered position in order to get a good view. Quiet tough to move the beehive away from the nesting area. The proper timing,to wait for the mother bees out to pollinate the flowers around is the right time.
If you click the close up, you’ll see the young honeybees still inside the holes. Just wondering, how a small stinging insect can produce a beehive much bigger and larger than their own size.
Other parts has unfinished portion and broken off. I think the construction is still going on.
The image below, shows great number of young ones inside the beehive.
Gardening/Greenery/Garden Insects | My Indoor and Outdoor Photography | Wildlife/Animals/Pets
Sky Blue with Muntingia Calabura
By livelifeandlove on October 9, 2013Morning glow of the day is to appreciate all the good things in life as it was tightly packed with treasures and beautiful scenery. Watching the flowers take its shape in the morning and rate my favorites is the reason of enjoying the beauty of nature,it is something that I loved to do with passion that gives me a better view of the things around. Photographing the white flowers with the blue sky background looks well in a more natural setting,it is a learning fun and fascinating.
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Sky Viewing with Muntingia Calabura or Aratiles Flower
By livelifeandlove on September 12, 2013My habit keeps my mind active and physically occupied for a day. Photographing these wildflowers Muntingia Calabura has something to teach as well. This is just a short lived wildflower, it will only stay for a day and I just have to shoot it immediately before the sucking insects will arrive that it may caused discoloration.
The first bloom is lovely white in full sun although it was really small but, with fine quality once you’ll seen the result. This kind of flower may not be available during rainy season, they bloom more this time and less continuously.
Previously,I’ve published the first part of these images with the black background as it was glowing in the dark. I’m very passionate to do these things in the morning.Here’s the shots taken from day to day activities.
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Flowering Bulb
By livelifeandlove on September 11, 2013What a pleasant surprised to see the first display in the garden, the gorgeous ”Amaryllis bulb flowers”. Theflower looks attractive with the combination of white and pink lined petals.These particular variety grown in partial shade enriched with our own home-composed soil. It’s quiet easy to grow but watering priority during summer droughts.
Sometimes, they become too crowded and compact, I’ve divided some and replant it all over again on the same place. I’ve photographed it to be my first gorgeous subject in the morning. Photographing a lovely subject is an entertaining ritual especially if it’s done first hour in the morning. It’s cool to do it especially if it goes well and appropriate for my time, more so for the enjoyment of nature. Here’s my angle shots!
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Yellow Hibiscus Flower
By livelifeandlove on September 4, 2013Beautiful yellow hibiscus in the garden. We call it gumamela in the Philippines.
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Black Background Images of Honeybees
By livelifeandlove on July 17, 2013It was summer when I started to photograph the honeybees.Attempting to get a good picture was really tough at this time,got only few chances because the weather sometimes is unpredictable.A lot of times, when the day is supposed to be sunny, but it turned out to be foggy and windy.
Recently,I produced pictures of honeybees in a natural habitat,however this time, I want to change the setting from natural environment to black background.Attempting to get a good picture at a closer range using foliage as my background and keeping it to a bit darker is hard because it was done in a broad daylight. These honeybees were very active and aggressive coming too close and flew away. It was just a matter of patience to wait for the proper timing.Sometimes, I’m losing my patience and felt so uncomfortable under the sun.
Fortunately, Pollinating flowers was done many times,therefore, the honeybees will return again and again to the same flower and that I firmly memorized all their routes following them. As the result? I produced 15 pictures of honevbees pollinating flowers with a black background.Definitely, I’m changing moods, it might be unpleasant to see as it is noticeable with the presence of other pictures. I’m not a photographer, still learning some tecniques from you guys! Here’s the result !
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Bees and Caterpillars
By livelifeandlove on July 9, 2013Lately,I’ve discovered leaves that was badly damaged, I was wondering who made these damages. Got 2 leaves to compare with. To my point of comparison,the first leaves was not fully damaged,it was cut off into an oval shaped and ring form.However, to my second discovery was more intense. How can you tolerate to see, it was all disrupted and destroyed.They totally ate all the leaves leaving only the veins and stems. I ‘ve photographed it for proof. Who’s to be blamed for these?
Damages done by the leaf-cutter bees.
The honey bees as leaf-cutter bees.
Damages done by the gypsy moth caterpillars.They are considered as a pests. Almost zeroing everything,I guess, they are in the destructive stage at this time.I’m just wondering what made them crave to eat all the leaves.They will surely stop upon reaching the next stage of their life cycle.
Sometimes,the gypsy moth caterpillars with the whole family; father,mother,and children,they all gathered together to do the same activity for the day.