I set out to take a photo of an attractive coastal/desert type of flower.
Its “webbed” petals and delicate veins along with the colour made it quite attractive.
The dusty grey-green foliage wasn’t bad, either so I pulled back for another shot.
It wasn’t until I downloaded the image that I realised I may have found something else as well.
Or is it just a trick of the perspective?
The human eye insists on creating patterns and my eyes are sure trying to make this into a weirdly camouflaged alien bug.
This could be the stuff of nightmares.
It may be one of those mysteries which is never resolved.
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The flower’s beautiful…The bug is kinda cute. It looks like a stuffed animal, all fuzzy…
What kind of zoom do you have on your camera, BTW? Jeez! It’s a fabulous shot!
It is a Tamron 28mm-300mm zoom lens on a Pentax istDS body. The original image comes out at about 3000×2000 pixels. The photograph of the bug was a total fluke – if it IS a bug, that is
fabulous! and i agree – don’t think it’s a bug, but it sure is alien!
It looks like a caterpillar (sp?). The flowere is really cool looking!
Eep! A koala bear bug!
Chaos theory at work again – fantastic
That is so peculiar and so intriguing! I love the idea that it’s a koala bear bug!
Seed pod … for the bract, which is what the pretty “flower” is! But it does look like a bug.
I can usually read your site without having the crap scared out of me … well, at lease sometimes I can. But this is a sight too terrifying before at least three morning cups of coffee. Aliens masquerading as blossums that lure you ever closer. .. closer … Jeeeeez.
@ Daisyfae, I like the alien concept – we need more mystery in life
@ Maggie, Indeed, it could be but I fear the sort of moth it could turn into – - -
@ az, perhaps it is an embryonic drop bear
@ Daddy P, It could certainly throw both the Intelligent Designers AND the Evolutionists into chaos!
@ Litlove, Peculiar is a good word for this. I have never seen anything like this before.
@, Buff, you may be onto something here, even if you have taken the magic out of it
@, Linda, I do apologise although I may continue to be your early morning Stephen King
I just got a new camera! Woo-hoo!
yeeehaaaa – Losta new pics, eh?
That’s what I’m planning on. I also set myself up a photoblog: http://coyotephoto.com.
Because I obviously don’t have enough blogs as it is.
My camera is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ8, 5x optical zoom, which is what I really wanted.
Blogger doesn’t do the pictures justice, but you can click to enlarge. I can see things with this camera I couldn’t see with the naked eye…AND I just got new glasses and I can’t believe how sharper everything looks…
“Because I obviously don’t have enough blogs as it is.”
Nonsense, you can never have too many blogs.
It looks good, WC!
@WC, Whoo hoo – looking forward to new photos – and a new blog as well – really spoiling yourself – well done.
@ az, Interesting thought – Maybe I need to separate my stuff into different blogs.