Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Animal Wednesday / Blue Morpho

B= for Blue Morpho
Many Morpho butterflies are colored in metallic, shimmering shades of blue and green. These colors are not a result of pigmentation but are an example of iridescence: the extremely fine lamellated scales covering the Morpho's wings reflect incident light repeatedly at successive layers, leading to interference effects that depend on both wavelength and angle of incidence/observance.
Happy Animal Wednesday!
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14 comments:

  1. Lisa at GreenbowJanuary 20, 2010 at 12:34 AM

    Happy Animal Wednesday. I just love your treatment of the blue morph.

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  2. TeriJanuary 20, 2010 at 2:07 AM

    You did such a beautiful job on this Marianne. You sure have a wonderful way of making that beautiful iridescent color just pop off the screen.

    HAW

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  3. MimJanuary 20, 2010 at 4:13 AM

    This is beautiful! HAW Marianne - hope you are having a wonderful day

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  4. JulieJanuary 20, 2010 at 5:12 AM

    I love blue butterflies!!!!! Especially iridescent ones!

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  5. UnknownJanuary 20, 2010 at 5:13 AM

    Hi Marianne!!! this Blue Butterfly is beautiful!!! wow!!! amazing work as always my dearest friend!!!

    Hugs
    Diana

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  6. LeslieJanuary 20, 2010 at 6:04 AM

    Beautiful! I've enjoyed catching up with your posts - have been way behind, but hoping to get back in the swing of things.

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  7. CarolineJanuary 20, 2010 at 9:52 AM

    Wow! You're the Queen of Iridescence, Marianne! Such a beautiful butterfly!

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  8. studio loloJanuary 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM

    Are you sure this isn't flying to Rhode island?

    ;)

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  9. ArtistUnpluggedJanuary 20, 2010 at 2:43 PM

    Beautiful butterfl! HAW!

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  10. Margaret AnnJanuary 20, 2010 at 11:44 PM

    What a shimmering beauty! :)

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  11. kjJanuary 21, 2010 at 4:10 AM

    you are a butterfly, marianne....
    ♥

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  12. soulbrushJanuary 21, 2010 at 8:34 PM

    never ever seen one like this. it's magical.

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  13. Archie and MelissaJanuary 22, 2010 at 4:40 PM

    hi marianne!
    oh your butterfly is magical!
    i love it!

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  14. Lisa M GriffinJanuary 22, 2010 at 11:42 PM

    LOVE IT! The blue is just radiant... did you create this with Dr Martin?
    Wonderful share. Have a good weekend.

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