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Look Closer (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

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

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago

Fix it, less ugly.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 24 points 2 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.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What, do you think a palace is not ugly behind the gold stuck?

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah, definitely time to switch it up

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://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 spotted spurge, Euphorbia maculata, growing out of a crack in some stones.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 35 points 2 months ago

I have a "neglect bowl" for things like this I've literally scraped off a sidewalk.

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.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 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.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 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.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 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.

https://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.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 34 points 2 months ago

The smaller you get, the more bizarre things become.

The world as you know it ceases to exist.

Here there be monsters.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 17 points 2 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.

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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. Can’t stand anymore a minute of that weepy music and slowmos like there’s some kind of point or art to the bloody, shit stinking, bloated corpses, meat grinder

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh the movie I'm talking about was not a love story. It was revealing how bad war is to a lot of people. The book version got banned and burned by the Nazis, when the movie came out Nazis attacked the movie theaters and the moviegoers. The name is "All Quiet on the Western Front" and it's very powerful. Here's a few quotes from Wikipedia:

he volunteers to go on a patrol and kills a Frenchman in hand-to-hand combat for the first time. He watches the man die slowly in agony for hours. He is remorseful and devastated, asking for forgiveness from the man's corpse

The book was also banned in other European countries on the grounds that it was considered anti-war propaganda; Austrian soldiers were forbidden from reading the book in 1929, and Czechoslovakia banned it from its military libraries. The Italian translation was also banned in 1933

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Common Grackle?

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 6 points 2 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.