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Quercus rubrum, acorn2, ontario

Detailed Description

On a recent trip to York University to take pictures of bees from around the world, I was returning to his lab after a coffee field trip and was struck by the beautiful lines of some fresh red oak acorns. What lovely proportions, the scales on the cap form broad spirals that, like sunflower heads, likely conform to the fibonacci sequence of numbers and if you look at the arc of the nut and nib, one must image the golden mean is hidden in several places in this the commonplace acorn. Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200 USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.

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Public Domain.