These long-format (16:9 aspect ratio) images look better on the big screen, so click on them once to expand.
Usually I shoot 3:2,the old 35mm film standard; sometimes I crop these down for detail. I’m sure you’ll see some 1:1 images around here soon (sounds just right for a woodchuck portrait).
Meanwhile, more stinkhorns! This time Phallus impudicus Phallus raveneilii (thanks to comment below, backed up by iNaturalist, for correction.)
They — ok, it was her niece — say Darwin’s daughter Etty would edit these out of the garden, for some reason…
Something completely different, although perhaps not completely different:
“As with the societies we live in, the planet we have inherited from our ancestors, and the one we are making now, is a social construct, shaped physically and culturally by the perceptions, values, aspirations, tools, and institutions of societies past and present. These social structures and processes have changed across generations as the cultural practices and institutions that produced them have evolved. In the Anthropocene, Earth’s ecology changes with us. Environmental change is social change, and social change is cultural change.” Erle C. Ellis on a democratic vision of the biosphere.
Backyard and Beyond 