Beautiful yellow hibiscus in the garden. We call it gumamela in the Philippines.
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Language of Love
By livelifeandlove on September 2, 2013Attaching meaningful and short phrases like these is a direct language to express your purpose in love especially if you are shy to say it verbally.The language of love is even more interesting if you say it with flowers. Here’s some of my examples on how to make love messages creatively..I’m sure it will capture the heart of the receiver.
Forwarding love messages sent to your loved ones accompanied with flowers will always express something to capture his/her attention.However, it is already a common practice to those who are in love but,at least it will always help to show your special interest and purity of your heart.
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Note: Fresh flowers would be more meaningful indeed.
My Indoor and Outdoor Photography | Wildlife/Animals/Pets
Cat Playing Peek-a-Boo
By livelifeandlove on August 1, 2013
”Nikki” displaying her naughty tricks. She knows how to hide her face using her left paw and showing up her pinky tongue.
Our cat,”Nikki” knows how to play Peek-A-Boo.It’s a game intended for humans but my our cat does.Nikki is a member of the family,trusted friend and a loyal companion.She’s a jolly playful cat and loves the company of humans. I just love the quiet atmosphere with her as she loves us unconditionally. Somehow,gave me a happy feeling and taught me how to be patient all the time.
Our playful cat. Funny isn’t it?
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Man Carrying an Orange
By livelifeandlove on July 29, 2013
”Man carrying an orange” is a creative craft using a whole piece of an orange including the skin designed for the man carrying the fruit.
This is a funny fruit art that makes you laugh. This is my own illustration of a worrisome sign of a man depicting a situation living in a highly stressful situation, Is it a pandemic world? This small boy carrying something which is too heavy for his own weight is an example on how man can tolerate the hardship of a slow growth, more dependent on themselves in order to get a good juice, we are still working on how to live with it. Probably, it’s a difficult world to live in so we need to get stronger, safer and smarter to get in there.
Stay safe and healthy everyone!
Gardening/Greenery/Garden Insects | My Indoor and Outdoor Photography
Black Background Images of Honeybees
By livelifeandlove on July 17, 2013It was summer when I started to photograph the honeybees.Attempting to get a good picture was really tough at this time,got only few chances because the weather sometimes is unpredictable.A lot of times, when the day is supposed to be sunny, but it turned out to be foggy and windy.
Recently,I produced pictures of honeybees in a natural habitat,however this time, I want to change the setting from natural environment to black background.Attempting to get a good picture at a closer range using foliage as my background and keeping it to a bit darker is hard because it was done in a broad daylight. These honeybees were very active and aggressive coming too close and flew away. It was just a matter of patience to wait for the proper timing.Sometimes, I’m losing my patience and felt so uncomfortable under the sun.
Fortunately, Pollinating flowers was done many times,therefore, the honeybees will return again and again to the same flower and that I firmly memorized all their routes following them. As the result? I produced 15 pictures of honevbees pollinating flowers with a black background.Definitely, I’m changing moods, it might be unpleasant to see as it is noticeable with the presence of other pictures. I’m not a photographer, still learning some tecniques from you guys! Here’s the result !
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Gardening/Greenery/Garden Insects | My Indoor and Outdoor Photography
Bees and Caterpillars
By livelifeandlove on July 9, 2013Lately,I’ve discovered leaves that was badly damaged, I was wondering who made these damages. Got 2 leaves to compare with. To my point of comparison,the first leaves was not fully damaged,it was cut off into an oval shaped and ring form.However, to my second discovery was more intense. How can you tolerate to see, it was all disrupted and destroyed.They totally ate all the leaves leaving only the veins and stems. I ‘ve photographed it for proof. Who’s to be blamed for these?
Damages done by the leaf-cutter bees.
The honey bees as leaf-cutter bees.
Damages done by the gypsy moth caterpillars.They are considered as a pests. Almost zeroing everything,I guess, they are in the destructive stage at this time.I’m just wondering what made them crave to eat all the leaves.They will surely stop upon reaching the next stage of their life cycle.
Sometimes,the gypsy moth caterpillars with the whole family; father,mother,and children,they all gathered together to do the same activity for the day.
Gardening/Greenery/Garden Insects | My Indoor and Outdoor Photography
White Butterfly
By livelifeandlove on July 8, 2013
Summer has passed,the same kind of butterfly visited our garden.For almost a month now, very few care to visit in the morning,I guess, it was it was driven by the constant rain showers in the morning and most of the day,it’s foggy and cloudy and that, the sun barely appeared.
Only these kind of butterflies has the courage to visit. I took some snapshots with different angles during their daily visit, I just don’t know it if it’s the same butterfly who came to visit yesterday. Previously, I’ve completed the photos of butterfly life cycle.It took some time for me to make the completion because it was hard to determine their real eggs.So far,I’ve gathered few to complete my details about species around.
These white butterfly has rounded wings which makes it different from other butterflies around. The butterfly was quiet small and very active, it was tough to photograph these tiny little thinge even though it is small, it looks bigger enough to view it in close-up.
My Indoor and Outdoor Photography | Travel and Adventure
Modern Chinese Wood Carving
By livelifeandlove on June 19, 2013 
The Chinese wood carving
The Chinese sculpture revealing the essence of modern Chinese art.It’s a huge piece of wood shapely carved and finely polished with creative patterns of fish cut into exact specifications and carefully fitted together.To make these kind of handwork piece is a big effort,probably,it take months to finish it and it takes years to restore and preserve it.
Nowadays,creative art has been fast growing and changing in style, these might be the reason why,more and more people developed western tastes which led to the boom in sales everywhere. Certainly, to see a modern collection like these makes your mood dramatically different. It was a single shot taken in China last summer.
My Indoor and Outdoor Photography | Travel and Adventure
Tower Crane
By livelifeandlove on June 13, 2013
Tower Crane taken around the city while construction is going on rooftops and on the ground.It was a busy site on the opposite side of the road while work is going on,the operator lifting some heavy steel,large tools and construction materials. You can just see the lifting capacity is just as too great.It was a scenery of what’s going on around the city.Well, It’s a good sign that city is moving towards progress !
Gardening/Greenery/Garden Insects | My Indoor and Outdoor Photography
Ants: Busy Life
By livelifeandlove on June 10, 2013
Soldier ant, take a closer look.You can clearly see the external features here; head,thorax and the abdomen.The strong mandibles ready to bite,it was wide opened.
A termites nest I’ve discovered.Ants live in colonies and underground.In these photos you can see all types of ants; worker ants,carpenter ants and the soldier ants.They are red and black in color.The soldier ants role, from the word,”soldier” itself, they are responsible to protect their queen and fellow ants, the worker ants getting busy to gather food all day long and the carpenter ants dig in the woods for more convenient and comfortable nesting site.They usually store foods for rainy days.During rainy days, ants can’t go out to gather food,this is the reason why,they store food in advanced or before rainy days. The foods was stored inside their nest and good enough to sustain the entire colonies.
Worker ants in large numbers.It is common to my place that you’ll see them everywhere.Their nest seems to be a very crowded place to live in.The annoying part is the pain bites injecting sting.
The soldier ants on duty.Ants also live in stems of the tree
The ants hill.
Carpenter ants live here.Master carpenters,they dig deeper inside the wood.You can just imagine how strong their jaws are.
Carpenter ants nesting place. Fully displayed revealing deep excavation. Whew ! I learned a lot from my own discoveries.