Flowers and Insects Photography As ART With Free Verse Poems For Each Image

 

Flowers and Insects

Often together as one

                                       Millions of years

Evolving and helping

                                        Each to succeed

Bright colors to attract

With sweet nectar

                                    Deep within to feed 

Insects that often

           Fly to find sweets

                     Returning the favor

                By carrying pollen

                                       To other flowers

Assisting in the genetic diversity of seeds

To continue making more beauty on Earth

Co-Evolution among different life forms 

A process of life on Earth a joy to view

The digital flowers and insects image collage was created using the Procreate App on iPad with Apple Pencil using Randy Puckett's personal nature photographs. 

The base background layer was from a photograph taken of a Magnolia tree on February 23, 2023 in the Maryville College Woods close to my home in Maryville Tennessee.

The other photos of insect pollinators and the caterpillars on different flowers in this collage were from the spring into the fall of 2023 at locations in Blount County Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Below are photographs of the insect pollinators in a variety of blooms feeding on nectar and pollen from throughout the Southeastern United States.

These insects also often have external hairs and body "fuzz" that traps pollen and when they move from flowers to flowers of the same plant species this pollen contains sperm which will cross fertilize the eggs forming seeds with different gene combinations. This results in the next generation of plants in the species having more diverse characteristics which can allow better chances of survival during changing environmental conditions such as drought or other climate changes.

Enjoy these "Moments in Nature" and my short free verse poems that are similar to Haikus except my poetry style has no rules but I try to enhance and recreate the photograph with words.

  

Rich blue Chicory bloom

Visited by a Sweat Bee

Rolling in pollen to carry

Fertilizing another bloom

Alcoa, Tennessee, USA on October 29, 2023

orange black and white

small moth feeding upon

bright goldenrod blooms

Ailanthus Webworm Moth on October 11, 2023 from Cherokee National Forest East Tennessee, USA

Lavender pink and purple flowers 

Contrasting with neon green bee 

Packed full bulging yellow pollen sacs

Tall Ironweed with Brown Winged Striped Sweat Bee from October 8, 2023  in Lake Panasoffkee, Florida, USA

Oxeye Daisy Looks Like The Sun 

Visited By A Leatherwing Beetle  

Yellow And Orange Colors Glowing

June 1, 2023 Fort Loudoun State Historical Park, East Tennessee, USA

Explosion of bright colors

Pinks purples a few blues 

Purple Crownvetch blooms 

Look to see a Bumble Bee

June 3, 2023 Greenbelt Lake in Maryville, Tennessee, USA 

Yellow Wingstem flowers

Radiant petals like the sun

Another bloom missing petals

Orange with black spots beetle

Resting upon flower of the sun

Asian Lady Beetle on the bloom 

Alcoa, Tennessee, USA on October 29, 2023

Rich Purple Morning Glory Bloom

Visited By Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly 

Casting Dark Shadow In the Bloom 

A Digital Program To Change This 

Moment In Nature Photograph

Background Removed To Green 

Now The Focus On The Flower With 

Yellow Wings And Dark Shadow Cast 

But Nature’s Beauty Still Abounds

Layered photographs made with Apple Pencil, iPad, and Procreate APP Flower and Butterfly photograph on November 9, 2022 from Maryville, Tennessee, USA

Flowers in a field
Small blue butterfly
Flying over blooms
Not a painting
But a photograph

June 8, 2023 from Cades Cove in 

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee USA

THIS POST IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH MORE IMAGES AND POEMS TO BE ADDED SOON