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!

14 comments:

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

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

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

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

    Hugs
    Diana

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

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

    ;)

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  9. you are a butterfly, marianne....

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

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

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

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