Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

I returned the morning to see what was happening. I first visited the place where the grasshopper was. Wow - there was a Parawixia

In her wet web. Hwe realized that I was there and started to leave

Making her way to the edge of the web

Liang came this morning and practiced some photo taking. She has a wonderful eye

Here is a Simpoh pod. Colleen (Damselfly of flickr fame) claims that the seeds taste like watermelon

Here is Liang's Simpoh (Dillenia/Wormia suffruticosa) flower

and with ant

She took a photo of me

Drops on this small small flower

I thought it would be fun to try to capture the droplets on a web. A difficult manual focus job. I find the distribution and size of the water drops quite interesting. The drops congregate at intersections between circumferential strands and radial strands as well as along circumferential strands (typically where there are glue drops).

A closer view of the droplet distribution.

Then this really beautiful flower, a Melastomataceae

Here is this little guy hunting

And looking at me

and back to hunting

C. Frank Starmer

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