JOY's FAVORITE FOTOS: 2013

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"You G*d are the Compassion, the Strength, the Beauty, the Victory, the Splendor, and the Foundation of everything in Heaven and on Earth. " (1 Chronicles 1:29)

I see Your Face in All Nature that I photograph.

Thanks to "52 Frames" for this post idea from our 2013 Week 37 Theme:
"What Is It?"

http://joys-favorite-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/05/submissions-to-52-frames.html

All posts are dated in archives, but the dates ARE IRRELEVANT. :)
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Squash

Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad. Megasporophylls

Sago

Spears

Asparagus

Cantaloupe

Pine Cone

Pumpkin

Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad. Megasporophylls

On non-recognizable mysterious forms, I was looking for TEXTURES with surface irregularities, details, curves, patterns and drama. Although I shot (non-flowering) Sago Palm seed pods / Cycas revoluta - Sago Cycad in the morning, I then waited all day for Golden Hour to bring out the deeper warm golden color of Megasporophylls, the protective fertile female reproductive structure groupings of Cycas.

Joyously I explore nature, uncover and reveal the hidden beauty. I love the textures outside on the Megasporophylls, furry finger-like cycads, forms that conceal the inner round exposed ovules, orange/red hairy seed pods that may contain an inner embryo if pollinated. The cabbage-shaped female cone will slowly open up when receptive to pollen.

The ‘fruit' ovules are not enclosed in an ovary but lie naked on leaflike structures, a bed of thorns. The pod area surrounds upper trunk and under the new “flush” of unfurling leaves/spine/spears.

I positioned my camera INSIDE the ‘womb’ of the Sago Palm weirdness mystery to shoot the fascinating seed pods. It was like an ultrasound. It felt like opening a coat, carefully spreading its tight ‘leafy’ furry fingers and palm, and exploring the hidden inner space of golden globes, 'eggs in ovaries’.