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**RKeller Photography** @Rihilism@toot.community · 4h

RKeller Photography @Rihilism@toot.community

The highly suggestive, perhaps even erotic, center of an impatiens flower. And that's coming from a gay man.

My technique and general philosophy of flower photography consists of the following steps.

Step 1:
Aim for the sexy bits

That is all the steps.

Extreme closeup photograph of the center of a white impatiens flower. This variety has white petals covered in tiny reflective patches that give the surface a shimmering appearance with the right light angle. The center is not unlike a woman's labia and vaginal opening with white fused stamens whose white, almost transparent anthers appear like labia surrounding the entrance to the nectar which resembles the vaginal opening.

#PhotoHour #MacroHour #macro

**RKeller Photography** @Rihilism@toot.community · 22h

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RKeller Photography @Rihilism@toot.community

I love Gerbera daisies but my garden is way too hot (surrounded by buildings/concrete) & not too far into summer they go dormant. That's okay but it stays too hot in the Fall for them to truly come back so I may have just use them as a houseplant

Vertical photo of three yellow Gerbera plant flowers at the end of thick and sturdy stems above lush green Gerbera foliage with an out of focus brown-painted railing behind them. Morning sun is peeking between the railing pickets near the top of the frame. The daisies are at different heights and the lower two are still closed. As the name suggests, Gerbera flowers are shaped like daisies with layers of petals radiating from a center filled with florets.

#PhotoHour #gardening #Photography

**RKeller Photography** @Rihilism@toot.community · 1d

RKeller Photography @Rihilism@toot.community

Favorite photo from Chicago a few yrs ago. Had recently purchased a Nikon 40mm macro lens which is also an excellent street lens. This trip I decided to restrict myself to the the 40mm only. It was a great challenge and I learned a lot.

Closeup photograph of a western honeybee hanging from a purple flower attached to a long stiff but drooping stem with out of focus purples, blues, and greens in the background. I was not able to ID the flower but based on its shaped it's likely in the Ranunculus family. The flowers are at the end of stalks that droop under the flower's weight. Each flower has five light purple pointed petals that radiate from a center filled with white stamens with yellow anthers.

#PhotoHour #Macrohour #bees

**RKeller Photography** @Rihilism@toot.community · 2d

RKeller Photography @Rihilism@toot.community

The joy of photography is having infinite subjects. The tragedy of photography is not having enough time to photograph them all. This is from two yrs ago. Definitely need make some time to look for more jumping spider's in my garden this year.

Extreme closeup photograph of a small jumping spider clinging to the side of a green stem covered in fine white hairs with out of focus green foliage in the background. The spider in on the right side of the stem and is facing upward. This species has eight brown and amber segmented legs, a dark body with white striping and a white spot covered in fine hairs, four dark front-facing eyes, four eyes on the top of the head, and two brown to amber pedipalps.

#PhotoHour #MacroHour #spiders

**RKeller Photography** @Rihilism@toot.community · 2d

RKeller Photography @Rihilism@toot.community

Light tunneling and squiggles.

Abstract long exposure of nighttime traffic on Interstate 80 near Coralville, Iowa. During the exposure the camera was intentionally shaken. Instead of just streaks of light from cars and trucks and dots for stationary sources, this creates patterns of light like squiggles and sinusoidal waves. The colors of light are distinct for each light source and include all colors of the rainbow and white light. The photo was taken near an off ramp in the left frame which is lit from above with a light streak from a car exiting the highway. Informational highways signs are present but out of focus due to the intentional camera shake. On the far side of the interstate there is a semi-truck that has a circular light pattern on the back end of the trailer. During the long exposure the ring of light spreads out into a tunnel of light that starts out smooth are become more uneven as the camera was shaken.

#PhotoHour #abstract #AbstractPhotography

**RKeller Photography** @Rihilism@toot.community · 3d

RKeller Photography @Rihilism@toot.community

Like'n that lichen.

Extreme closeup photograph of a bright mustard-yellow lichen on the side of a tree. The lichen is made up of curvy, frilly plates or plaques that hug the tree's surface as well as reproductive structures that appear as raised silvery-gray rings with dark concave centers.

#PhotoHour #MacroHour #lichen

**RKeller Photography** @Rihilism@toot.community · 4d

RKeller Photography @Rihilism@toot.community

#SilentSunday

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**RKeller Photography** @Rihilism@toot.community · 4d

RKeller Photography @Rihilism@toot.community

#SilentSunday

Photograph of a brown-headed cowbird standing amid brown grasses with out of focus patches of green foliage and brown bare earth in the background. The cowbird is facing away from the camera but has its head turned to the right to look at the camera leaving one eye visible. Brown-headed cowbirds have dark brown-black body feathers that are somewhat iridescent in the right light, brown necks and heads, dark eyes, black beaks, and black legs and feet.

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**RKeller Photography** @Rihilism@toot.community · 4d

RKeller Photography @Rihilism@toot.community

#SilentSunday

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**RKeller Photography** @Rihilism@toot.community · 6d

RKeller Photography @Rihilism@toot.community

This is native (for me) wild hyacinth. Planted it in my garden2 yrs ago. As you can see it has a unique coloration that almost looks as though someone hand painted white streaks on top of lavender petals. Part of my attempts to find native alternatives to traditional garden favorites.