Featured photo by @hobopeeba
Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPcircles
This weekend, we’re seeing circles. Take your cue from this featured photo by Kristina Makeeva (@hobopeeba), and read on for some tips to get started:
Focus on round forms in nature. Point your lens toward a bubble in the water, a piece of fruit or even the moon.
Find circles at home. Set the table for dinner and take a photo of the plates from above, or capture how the light shines in through a circular window.
Bring friends and family into the frame. Make a video of hula-hooping in the park, or of a friend holding up a freshly baked pie.
PROJECT RULES: Please add the #WHPcircles hashtag only to photos and videos shared over this weekend and only submit your own visuals to the project. If you include music in your video submissions, please only use music to which you own the rights. Any tagged photo or video shared over the weekend is eligible to be featured next week.
Ring of Life | Photograph by Anuar Patjane Floriuk (@anuarpatjane)
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#YourShotPhotographer Anuar Patjane Floriuk photographed a swarm of bigeye trevally at Cabo Pulmo National Park in Mexico. “This place is a unique example of the power of preserving marine hot spots, and is example of what can be achieved when communities, the scientific community, and government work together in favor of conservation," writes Floriuk. "By selecting and protecting strategic marine areas, the biomass of the ocean can increase rapidly and improve the overall health of the oceans.”
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“Every time I see an incredible underwater image I am always wondering the difficulty it must be to capture this photo. You can’t control the fish, so to be able to photograph them as they move in this pattern is just amazing. I’m always so inspired by the underwater photographers on Your Shot. This is also a very well-toned image, and works great as a black and white photo.” — @natgeoyourshot Senior Producer Matt Adams (@themattadams)
Photo by J. Baylor Roberts: A pair of performing swimmers put on lipstick underwater in Wakulla Springs, near Tallahassee, Florida. This image was originally published in the magazine in January, 1944. #flashbackfriday #fbf #vintage #underwater
A Caligo butterfly from the family Nymphalidae, transitions (wait for it) from the beautiful top side to the underside which acts as a camouflage for the insect. Butterflies and moths appear to be very delicate creatures, and yet they turn out to be much tougher — both in terms of their anatomy and survival skills — than previously imagined.
What is the evolutionary connection between the moth and the butterfly? Unlike dinosaurs, moths and butterflies do not have bones that can fossilize and preserve. Their many wing scales, however, are made of chitin, which is the primary component of hard natural materials like crustacean exoskeletons and cephalopod beaks.
The Late Triassic scales come from insects in the order Lepidoptera, which is the second largest order in the class Insecta and includes butterflies & moths, However, these butterflies evolved from moth-like ancestors.
About 70 sturdy of scales from their wings have been identified in a drilled core from northern Germany. The ancestors of today's moths and butterflies, therefore, date to at least the latter part of the Late Triassic (251–199 million years BCE). The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, extend the origin of these insects by 5 million years since the previously related fossil record-holders — from the United Kingdom — date to 195 million years ago. There is little doubt that dinosaurs and other iconic animals from the time saw the insects fluttering around them, just as many of us do today.
Thanks @davesweeneyphoto & @lookandseen
#Butterfly #Mariposa #Farfalla #Papillon #Borboleta #Fluture #Paruparo #Schmetterling #Drugelis #Sommerfug @atedge #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology
Sleeping under the milky way in Finland! Tag your love one 
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@eljackson & @hilvees
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#followmeto magical Paris with @natalyosmann. ❍Comment here your wildest dream and I will share the best one in my stories!! ❍ Collaboration with the amazing @hobopeeba, inspired by one of the favorite animation films - “UP”. ❍❍❍❍❍❍❍❍❍❍❍
#следуйзамной в магический Париж. Коллаборация с замечательной @hobopeeba. Были вдохновновлены мультфильмом «Вверх».❍ Поделитесь в комментариях вашей самой большой мечтой и я опубликую лучшую в сториз! :) ❍