Welcome to the rt tulley photography blogIt features photos, text, and poetry.June 8Spirals
I am thankful for spirals. What, you say? Not that I live and die for spirals, but if you think about it, spirals are a very integral shape in our lives. Many galaxies form spiral-like shapes. And, the structure responsible for our ability to survive and pass on life to our children, the double stranded DNA helix, is a three dimensional spiral shape. There is something simple and elegant about this shape that is soothing.
This is a macro photo of the petal of a daylily in my front yard. The daylilies are in full bloom at my house and I enjoy taking photos of them just about every day. This particular petal intrigued me by the way it coiled around itself. After several attempts, I finally got this photo. There are many kinds of spirals: the one in the photo is technically called a logarithmic spiral because the distance between the coils gets progressively farther as it goes outward. A spiral galaxy is also this type of spiral. If the distance between the coils stays constant, it is called an Archimedean spiral. The DNA helix is a 3-dimensional Archimedean spiral. Perhaps, all of this is more than you wanted to know about spirals, but even if you don't know anything, you can still appreciate the simple beauty of spirals.
spirals
spirals ever increasing concentricity ever increasing outward flowing smoothly like a pinwheel spinning freely around an axis but ever widening no more to return home but the further out freer weaker ‘til no longer connected to its origin to its home alone. © rt tulley June 7Self Defense
I am thankful for self defense. I am not a big proponent of guns or weapons, so what I am speaking about is being able to protect yourself from harm.
Everybody in Louisiana knows that this caterpillar is commonly known as the stinging caterpillar. Spring is the time for these little fellows. It is the buck moth caterpillar and those spikes pack a poisonous whollup that will keep you in pain for a while. It doesen't attack but it defends itself from anything that wishes to harm it by giving it a healthy "sting" if it brushes up against it. Although there are plenty of these in my yard this season, this particular guy was found and photographed at the Hilltop Arboretum in Baton Rouge walking along the wooden rails of a bridge.
stinging caterpillar
i just wish there was someone to hug wrap my arms around just for one other bug but for some reason no one will get close i just can’t understand leaves me so morose but one day i turn around to find i can fly away and others of my kind flock to me get next to me then they hug and i am free. © rt tulley June 6Lily of the Nile Flowers
I am thankful for lily of the Nile flowers. Lily of the Nile is the common name for Agapanthus, a flower derived from South Africa. I love them because they remind me of exploding fireworks.
These are just blooming agapanthus flowers from my front yard. Today's photo follows yesterday's blog photo of lily of the Nile, but with a more advanced blooming version of the flower. I intentionally semi-blurred the stems to make these flowers more resemble esploding fireworks shot from below.
lily of the nile
rising flying igniting exploding sweeping creeping colorful report the blast’s retort visual delight purple blue starlight. © rt tulle June 5Budding Flowers
I am thankful for budding flowers. I love flowers but a flower bud shows the unrealized promise of the flower to come. And, I think the buds in themselves are very prettty.
This is a photo of a budding lily of the Nile flower in my front yard, shortly after a rain shower, taken with my macro lens.
buds
we are all buds i sometimes do readily think underdeveloped and young but with potential on the brink encased in a protective cover we are hidden and guarded 'til that time we emerge after being disregarded but then we pop and finally break free and our full beauty to show is there for all to see. © rt tulley
June 4Sense of Touch
I am thankful for the sense of touch. Touch enables us to sense pressure, heat, pleasure, and pain. It also allows us to fine tune our motor skills by the feedback we receive from touch. It is interesting that feeling is a safeguard: people without feeling are much more likely to injure themselves.
This is a photo taken at a couple's wedding that my brother Fred and I did together.
touch
my nerve endings have sensed something a signal generated to my brain brings it is interesting that degrees of touch have their responses differing by much a slight brush might elicit pleasure a little more an itch begins to stir a harder pressure then a little more to the brain from pleasure it goes and becomes outright pain. © rt tulley |
