Look Closer

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I looked closer and I do, in fact, live in an ugly place.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fix it, less ugly.

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    • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not broken, just unscrewed. But look at all that dust and debris in there. It’s just gonna chill back there for the next 30 years.

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    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, definitely time to switch it up

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• Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  imgur.com/a/DeLHPRD

  I was telling my mother about this the other day. I study botany and often some of the most interesting plants are the tiny, seemingly boring ones. This is some prostate knotweed, Polygonum aviculare, growing out of a crack in some stones.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a “neglect bowl” for things like this I’ve literally scraped off a sidewalk.

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    Also I get a lot of speedwell as a weed and I kind of like it so I usually let it do it’s thing.

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    • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Those asters are lovely, too. I’m not sure those grow here

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    • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh I get it, yesterday I scraped up a random rush I saw in a Martin’s parking lot. I’m now pressing it with some Sorghastrum and Panicum.

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  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s so pretty. What did you use to take the super zoomed in photo?

    I live near a city and it makes me want to study enough botany to identify the various plants that spring forth in unexpected places. Some of them are quite beautiful and I find myself moved by their improbability.

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    • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks a lot! I have an Olympus Tough TG-6. They’re on the TG-7 now and my buddy has one, but they’re almost the same camera so if you find a 6 available get that.

      I’ve probably put 20,000 photos on this thing. It’s an amazing digital camera. I have dropped it onto concrete, it’s waterproof, just all around great. I recommend getting the ring light if you want to do macro photography. I’ve gotten some awesome pics with it.

      imgur.com/a/0RzgUfk

      You wouldn’t think it but the vast majority of my photography is of plants. I just got some great mileage out of photographing insects.

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• SARGE@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The smaller you get, the more bizarre things become.

  The world as you know it ceases to exist.

  Here there be monsters.

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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a scene in The Thin Red Line where a squad of American soldiers are lying in grass with Japanese machine-gun bullets flying all around them, and Adrian Brody’s character notices an interesting flower next to him and starts poking at it with a real look of appreciation on his face.

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  • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    there was one war movie where the main character starts chasing a butterfly in the middle of war then fucking dies.

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    • Emmie@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      War movies all lost luster if they ever had any after watching a lot of real footage due to Ukraine. It’s just all romanticised crap.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• 2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Common Grackle?

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do people actually see grackles like this? I find the black/blue difference very subtle

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    • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I see them like that when they’re in the sun (Like a rich blue and a metallic, kind of desaturated dRk purple) . If they’re in shade/overcast they look like metallic crows to me.

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  • hex@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably not unless it’s stylistically like that

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    • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oops, you’re right.

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s why iNaturalist is so great!! <3

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Microphotography kicks ass

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• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  www.topcartoons.tv/cartoons/sore-eyes/

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• luciole@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I LOVE falseknees

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