This week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, we’re getting up close and personal with the natural world, following Friday’s prompt; Close up on nature.
I chose to capture some of the more flamboyant examples of local horticulture, along with a busy bumble bee and an impressively antlered but badly coordinated flying beetle which lumbered into the fennel in our garden.
How did your nature trail develop? Share the results with us and join in the fun…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
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I love your bug with in the long strands of gras with his long strands of feelers. Great close-ups all round!
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Lovely close-ups you got here!
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I especially liked that last picture of some kind of beetle. I wonder if that other beetle picture is the same kind of bug.
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Thanks, Frank. They’re both the same beetle from different angles, yes
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Beautiful, the colours are so bright, fabulous !
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You have some gorgeous flowers and nature for your topic this week.
Here is my entry. And just think I didn’t post a flower.
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Love your collection of Mother Nature.
Love the 7th image (flower)-Purple yellow combination.
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Thank you, that’s a calibrachoa flower
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Thank you for the information.
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