Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Top20#20

I think, but am not sure, that this is a Variable Cracker (Hamadryas feronia), photographed on a water-stained window in the ENMAX Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo on May 17th. Daren't spend any more time trying to confirm the ID - just so much I need to do, including starting to get my place ready for having all my heating ducts vacuumed out and my central heating furnace and water heater replaced on 3rd and 4th January - and then all the windows, ha. Need to squeeze a very simple Christmas in there, too : )

These beautiful seedheads of the Sacred Lotus are one of my favourite things to photograph. Thought the pretty, tropical, flowering shrub in the background created a bit of bokeh to add colour to the image. Macro photo taken in the ENMAX Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo on September 26th. "The pods/seed heads contain the Lotus seeds within little circular chambers on the flat surface of the top of the pod. These circles appeared to cradle the seeds, which are round, within the pod until fully ripe. Both the chamber of each seed and the seed itself got larger and larger until the pod bent over to finally release the seeds into the water." www.flowersociety.org/lotus-plant-study.htm