Unidentified Photographer, (Unidentified Woman at Beach), ca. 1880
Poor woman, long hair/black gown at the beach… that really looks like a painted backdrop though.
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Photo galleries don’t get much more colorful than this one by National Geographic of Patterns in Nature: Sea Creatures.
Dear God, the size of that…
Famous meals from literature…
More here.Photographs by graphic designer Dinah Fried.
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A Woman Sitting in a Calm Spot on Russia’s Sim River in 1910 from the Prokudin-Gorskii Collection
Never knew this! Love the hi-res photo.
Ever catch butterflies when you were little and get a sort of powder on your hands after handling them? That powder is actually a lot of very fine and tiny scales from the butterfly’s wings. Butterflies (and moths) are Lepidopterans, which literally translates to “scale winged.” This is a high power shot of a butterfly wing, clearly showing the distinctions between individual scales. These scales are similar to fish scales and are essential for the regulation of body temperature by absorbing or reflecting light (depending on the angle of the light) as well as protection from environmental and predatory factors.
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