What's This?

Photography allows us to see things from perspectives that make our minds do a double take. You look at an image and your first reaction – is simply “What is that?” Enjoy these photos and see if eyes agree with your brain on what you are seeing.

Two Bucks
Natural History - What's This? Folder - two mature bucks still showing their antler velvet, preen each other.
bucks preen
Caterpiller in Rain
Natural History - What's This? Folder: the fine hairs of a caterpiller collect huge drops of rain. He must feel like he's carry a much heavier load.
caterpillar rain ron horne
Feather in the Rain
Natural History - What's That? Folder - Feather found after rain
feather rain ron horne
Coke Bubbles Close Up
Natural History - What's This? Folder - macro view of Coke bubbles in a bottle - taken while sitting in my truck waiting for traffic to clear. You can find a beautiful photos anywhere.
Coke bubbles ron horne
Blood Moon and Spica
Natural History - What's This? Folder: the blood moon, emerging from an eclipse, shines eerily with nearby Spica, a blue giant star in the constellation Virgo.
Rising Sun through Bedroom Window
Natural History - Whats This? Folder: sunrise through our bedroom window
sun sphere ron horne
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Ice Crystals on Smoke Tree
Natural History - What's This? Folder: - Ice Crystals form on the delicate 'blossoms' of the Smoke Tree.
ice crystals Smoke Tree ron horne
Down Feather Floating in Fountain
Natural History - Whats This? Folder: this finch feather with its decicate down structure was floating in a fountain on a hot summer day with a mister emitting fine water vapor that formed reflective droplets on every available barb of the feather.
Feather ron horne
Aliens in the Storm
Natural History - What's This? Folder - taken from on a moving San Francisco Bart train as a clearing storm highlights Oakland Port cranes
San Francisco Bart train storm Oakland port cranes ron horne
Pigeons in a Row
Natural History - What's This? Folder: this completely fortuitous circumstance developed when I went to photograph s line of sitting pigeons. This person, wearing the absolutely perfect hat walked in and out of the scene in a matter of seconds and I did not notice the perfect positioning until I harvested the photos at home.
pigeons ron horne
House Building circa 1968
Natural History - Whats This? Folder - this is the way house building looked in the 60s.

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What's This?