FIVE SHOTS IN THE MIDDAY SUN

I went to the beach in the morning. Spent some hours enjoying the sun and the sea there, and then ...

... around noon, on the short, about a hundred meters long walk from my favorite point on the coast to the car, I took about a dozen of photographs along the way.

Later, at home, approximately half of those photograph were deleted in the routine process of elimination that makes the weak and obsolete shots disappear forever. It wasn't an epic walk, the day was, and still is, extremely hot ... so this post inevitably ended up being pretty short, and somehow lazy. The detail of the blackberry shrub on the opening photograph and the green little seed pods of some wild plant that resembles the cultivated pea on this one, were photographed in the wall of intricate vegetation that grows along the dusty road that leads to the beach.

You can see plenty of seed pods around, now that the seasonal blooming time is over for many plants and the seeds are mostly developed. These small pods look great when the light of the strong midday sun makes them translucent. Here you can see another, slightly different kind of pod ... this one looks even more like the pea.

On one of these pods, the small nymph of some shield bug was resting. This shot was taken with the built - in flash on, so the details of the insects are visible, but the translucency was lost.

When I was almost at the car, ready to drive home, this spider was shot while hanging on the web high on the top of the blackberry shrub.

And that's it, as always in these walks on HIVE, the photographs are my work.