Thanks ilona for the beautiful thoughts, and it was fantastic to hear your voice, so much easier to be able to express words verbally , than always typing..!!! but always enjoy talking to you via Voice/phone !!!

so pleased you are making a full recovery

The rose is absolutely beautiful.. and a favourite of mine.. Peace and health dear friend, and heres to more phone conversations  hugs to all the family :)

And yes possibley a flight over to holland in the near future xxx

Nicola mwahhhh xxxx

soon be the full moon the strawberry moon in june,

cant remember if this is the oct full moon hunter or nove beaver  taken last year.. key to a good detailed moon is the the exposure setting.. even this shot was to over exposed to bring out the full details..

lovely compositions above

beauitful thoughts and photography there ilona .. apparently the male snail is meant to have exceptionally well developed tenticules for it body volume compared to other creatures... grins a wicked grin..

and beautiful work to their cindy. also..

curtsies and leaves the room !!!...

thanks Dan.. for including an image from the motorbike chrome series ..!!!

fractals are not a mathematic invention.. but a mathematic formula used to Fibonacci sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55...),in which the next number in the series is generated by adding the two previous numbers,ie 1+1=2 and 1+2=3,and so on. Lottery illusion From this point of view, mathematical patterns that arise in high-level descriptions of living organisms are evidence that biology, too, is mathematical at heart. For example, the number of petals in a flower tends to be one of the Fibonacci numbers - 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 and so on, where each is the sum of the previous two. This strange numerology can be traced to the dynamical behaviour of the cells at the tip of a growing shoot. The "primordia"-tiny lumps of cells from which the interesting features of plants develop -become arranged in patterns like interpenetrating spirals, and the mathematics of such patterns leads inevitably to Fibonacci numbers. natures numbers.. basically pattern seeking in nature..!!. any way all on the link !!!! given...

Thats the only ever Bee attempt Jane last June l believe, cant remember ..!!! may attempt more this summer.. Isnt warm enough for bees yet in England..we are infact a month behind with weather, which is typical...!!!! bee shot

yeah it works for me like this... lovely detail in the fur.. :)

now these are beautiful quality macros ... busy as a bee.. perfect timing...now what its like chasing bees around the garden attempted once..!!!! excellent hope theyre all going to be presentated in your gallery... :) nikki:) p.s knows danob would love those buttys...:)

lovely perspective ... lovely entry:)

would just the bottom edge..crop out that double bead of light on the grass , has a good distance of looking room.. and the light on the blade of grass/reed in the water, its beautiful..makes the observer see the jumping and swimming room. gives the story, of the scene, would try and bring the colours up like oldworld ,little under exposed on the minx, but thats the positioning of the sun... no rehearsal tho with opportunities like this..... love the naturalness , captured in its natural enviroment.. just thoughts..!!!

actually this is a simplier example of fractal geometry.... The story of benoit b mendelbrot...and the geometry of chao's... he took the theory beyond newton and einstien... plus the fractal gallery in renderosity is full of inspiration.... this weblink gives examples...http://www.fractalwisdom.com/FractalWisdom/fractal.html hope this is welcomed and helpful

well think fractals are challenging to some.. but then there are intelligent people with high IQ's in Renderosity .. and not to be under estimated the abilities of the new influx....:).. no hope us older one havnt been written off.. sighes

fractals.. when the golden rule meets fractals...the fibonacci.. principle of spiralling of phyllotaxy.. example (the study of the arrangement of leaves on a stem). Starting from any leaf on a plant, a spiral is traced in an anti- clockwise direction from leaf to leaf. Upon reaching a leaf directly above the first, the number of leaves and turns around the stem within the spiral are constant, irrespective of the starting point.
Although the number of intervening leaves and turns around the stem varies for differing species, certain figures re-occur. It transpired that the whorls on a pine-cone, the petals on a sunflower, the pattern of snail shells and the genealogy of the male bee all follow a sequence of Fibonacci numbers.

then you have the chaos fractals.... study of poincare knows as the father of fractal chaos / mandelbrot..

also involves quantum mechanics....

here a link on http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/padovan.html#

there is a maths formula to fractals..

this link is the simplest to understand fractals...

http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/natsums.html#Fibonacci

but fractals are quite simple .. in nature every where common formula... hope this is welcomed... and of help ?

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congrat's richard on your forth coming 800th ..will bring the champagne.. mmm and cookies, translated in to English = biscults, and reserve the Ginger Nut Snaps.. have to teach you americans proper English ((Joke))!!!! Heres to another 800 richard.. :) hugs

a little smugoonling, sighes lovely memories.!!!!.. old times.. and lovely old radio.. my father would love that..!!!!.. excellent post work on both :)