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Zhengzhou a Lovely day
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Huawei Matebook 13 ，Real best win10 laptop of 13 inch！
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Out of Window
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Medinilla magnifica is a plant native to the Philippines which has spread throughout the tropics and has long been cultivated as an ornamental ‘exotic’ plant. It comes from the family Melastomataceae with which I have little familiarity to the point that from a list of 175 genera I only definitely recognized one (Tibouchina)!
I came across this plant growing in the wild on my first day arriving on Oahu while waiting for my check-in time at the hotel to arrive and collected it and several others in the hopes that at least one would turn out to be a native. It turns out that as with a lot of the flora especially around urban areas, this is an introduced species becoming increasingly naturalized and invasive with time. The two species of Medinilla in Hawaii are problematic because they continue to be sold by oblivious or unscrupulous nurseries and stores, and they produce thousands of tiny seeds which are spread by birds. The plant can grow as a terrestrial or an epiphyte and does well in low light conditions meaning it can displace native plants that would normally grow under the canopy or in some cases right in the crown of rare palm trees.
There’s no doubt that it is a striking plant with great aesthetic value, but after seeing so many native plants at Hui Ku Maoli Ola, Lyon Arboretum, Koko Crater, as well as while hiking, I know there are no shortage of stunning Hawaiian natives and people working hard to get them into the hands of those who are seeking botanical beauty!
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This is the last of my native flora photos from last year’s Hawaii assignment. Fittingly this is from the final shoot and perhaps strangely my favorite of all. This is Nototrichium sandwicense, an endemic species in the Amaranthfamily known in the indigenous language as Kului. The flowers’ white-light color is rather tame, but they remain attractive for the fluffy character and produce a pleasing cyan to green tone when exposed to my ultraviolet light. The leaves may be my absolute favorite thing about this plant though. Especially when grown in bright and dry conditions, the leaves become heavily pubescent, tiny hairs creating a translucent silvery sheen overlaying the green leaf surface. They prefer to grown in dry conditions and are naturally present on many of the islands, growing in various well-drained soils at low to moderate altitudes. If I could choose just one of the plants I photographed to grow at home in California, it would be this species!
For some bonus fun, check out the ant in the final picture. She and her associates were wandering all over the flowers, creating quite a lot of frustration for me. In the end there was one frame where one ant was both somewhat in focus and stationary enough to get a good look at how the body fluoresces under 365nm UV.
This is my last native Hawaiian flower to share. I’ll be taking a short break from posting UVIVF images, but I’ll return with some invasive species I photographed the first night there and probably some infrared images down the line as well!
Thanks to Hana Hou! magazine (in particular Matt Mallams!) for bringing me in on this assignment and both the Lyon Arboretum and Hui Ku Maoli Ola for all the help in providing subjects and sparing the time to talk about things. I hope I’ll have another opportunity in the future to come visit!
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Gossypium tomentosum, Ma’o, or Hawaiian cotton, is an another endemic member of the mallow family (Malvaceae). It is grown as a small shrub, a groundcover, and is enjoyed for its silky flowers and silvery leaves. Sadly, like many of the other Hawaiian plants I’ve been sharing, it is endangered and has been extirpated from at least one of the Hawaiian islands largely as a result of continued coastal development.
Besides the loss of beauty, variety, and ecological diversity, the extinction of a species always has potential to make lost traits which would have perhaps more conventional value. This cotton illustrates this as even while its population continues to decline, its genes persist in commercial cotton crops after being bred with them to confer enhanced insect and pathogen resistance. While for some the abstract consequences of extinction have no impact, there remain more concrete losses which should leave any person concerned.
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Throwback Thursday to June’16
Art Nouveau collection by Stephanie Young of Calmwater Designs
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Happiness is a Warm Glow #happiness #warmth #light #longexposure #layeredlight #shambala #shine #glow #luminous #paintingwithlight #lightpainting
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Sunbeams over the North Sea off the coast of Cornwall.
Taken with an infrared lens which gives it the luminous light.
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Luminous Wind by Kristine Rose
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Luminous Intent Festival Logo Design & Animation
K-Pop Debuts and Comebacks for the 3rd Week of January 2022 (Jan 17-23 2022) Part 2
Jan 20
JANG BO WON - Lost daily life ft. Kim Kwang Jin
Guitarist Jang Bo Won returns with another touching track featuring singer-songwriter Kim Kwang Jin!
LUMINOUS - ALL EYES DOWN
Underrated boy group LUMINOUS returns in this catchy and aggressive song.
Jan 21
22Bullets & Fedde Le Grand - Won’t Be Me ft. JAMIE
Korean RnB princess JAMIE lends her vocals to DJs’ 22Bullets & Fedde Le Grand’s latest single.
MC MONG - Don’t Wake Me Up ft. SOYOU
Legendary 2000s K-Pop rapper and producer MC MONG returns with collab queen SOYOU in this old school K-Hip Hop piece.
Jan 22
No releases.
Jan 23
No releases.
Which is your favourite track of this week?
[Walks in]
[Drops this]
[Runs away]
The deep black of a strip of duct tape is elegant, if a little simple. It’s refined, and understated, something that would look fitting with almost anything you could be wearing, and anything you’re not. It shifts the focus to what’s been bound by it, rather than the tape itself. You don’t have to worry about that.
Make it bright pink, however, and you’ve made it ridiculous, childish. Something to be embarrassed by, something to bring a blush to the cheeks on your face as I bring about a blush to those on your bottom.
Bright pink isn’t refined. It’s not elegant. And it’s certainly not understated.
All the better.
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