🔎 Macro Photography: Conehead Praying Mantis (Empusa pennata)! 🦗📸

This fascinating creature, native to the Mediterranean region, is known for its unique triangular head and elongated antennae.

The mantis uses its sharp eyesight and predatory instincts to ambush unsuspecting prey.

Photographer Marta Albareda has captured this stunning close-up of the conehead mantis, allowing us to appreciate its intricate details.

📸 Marta Albareda

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“I don't let the old man in. I keep myself busy. You have to stay active, alive, happy, strong, capable. I don't let in the old critic, hostile, envious, gossiping, full of rage and complaints, of lack of courage, which denies to itself that old age can be creative, decisive, full of light and projection."

~Inspired by Clint Eastwood and his conversation with Toby Keith in the song “Don’t Let the Old Man In”

Fantastic Planet (1973)

Director: René Laloux

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Alice in OzLand: nothing can hurt you

Bora Bora, a stunning island in French Polynesia, features an extinct volcano at its heart. The island's highest point, Mount Otemanu, rises majestically in the center of the atoll.

The lagoon and fringing reef surrounding Bora Bora provide breathtaking views and natural protection. The Teavanui Passage, the only opening to the ocean, allows large ships to enter the serene lagoon.

The main island boasts four bays: Faanui Bay, Tuuraapuo Bay, Povai Bay, and Hitiaa Bay. Tuuraapuo Bay separates the island from the volcanic islets Toopua and Toopua-iti.

Artistic photography: Bramante Spiral Staircase, located in Vatican Museum in Rome, was designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932. Sculpted by Antonio Martini and realised by F. Marinelli It was inspired by the original 16th century Bramante Staircase.

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A woman is held captive in a wooden crate and left to die of starvation in a remote desert in Mongolia, 1913. It was capital punishment for committing adultery. Stéphane Passet was touring Mongolia and taking pictures in 1913, when he came across the Mongolian woman in a box. In the photograph you can see two bowls on the ground for water and food. She was given food and water not on a daily basis but in a way to prolong her suffering. In order not to alter the balance of local laws and civilizations of Mongolia, or in another words get himself in trouble, Stéphane Passet Left the woman in the box.

I counted my years and found that I have less time to live from here on than I have lived up to now.

I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets: he ate the first with pleasure, but when he realized that there were few left, he began to enjoy them intensely.

I no longer have time for endless meetings where statutes, rules, procedures and internal regulations are discussed, knowing that nothing will be achieved.

I no longer have time to support the absurd people who, despite their chronological age, haven't grown up.

My time is too short:

I want the essence,

my soul is in a hurry.

I don't have many sweets

in the package anymore.

I want to live next to human people,

very human,

who know how to laugh at their mistakes,

and who are not inflated by their triumphs,

and who take on their responsibilities.

Thus human dignity is defended and we move towards truth and honesty.

It is the essential that makes life worth living.

I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch hearts, people who have been taught by the hard blows of life to grow with gentle touches of the soul.

Yes, I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give.

I don't intend to waste any of the leftover sweets.

I am sure they will be delicious, much more than what I have eaten so far.

My goal is to reach the end satisfied

and at peace with my loved ones

and my conscience.

We have two lives.

And the second begins when you realize you only have one.

~Mário Raul de Morais Andrade

(Oct 9, 1893 – Feb 25, 1945)

Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, photographer

I gotta start counting my food 😂

Sharing a cigarette during the Tour de France, 1920.

The lighting under the bridge in Guangzhou, China 🇨🇳 , by Yier Wang. That is so fascinating. It looks like a Cresent moon 🌙

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American Civil War veteran Jacob Miller, photographed in 1911, with a bullet hole in his head that he obtained during the Battle of Chickamauga whilst fighting for the Union Army in 1863. Left for the dead the Union soldier regained consciousness and ended up living for another 54 years. For 31 of those years Miller still had bullet fragments lodged in his head.

A 9,000-year-old skeleton was found inside a cave in Cheddar, England, and nicknamed “Cheddar Man”. His DNA was tested and it was concluded that a living relative was teaching history about a 1/2 mile away, tracing back nearly 300 generations.

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“Everyone fights their own battles. Be kind.”

Men waiting in a line for the possibility of a job during the Great Depression in 1929.

When the goth girl listens to you but you never thought you'd get this far

“Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There's such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it comes with an unbearable price. Maybe loving dogs is a way we do penance for all the other illusions we allow ourselves and the mistakes we make because of those illusions.”

Dean Koontz - The Darkest Evening of the Year, 2007.

Amy Kathrine Browning - Lime Tree Shade,1913.

The Art Nouveau style hotel Gran Hotel Ciudad de México in Mexico City.

The beautiful stained-glass ceiling was designed by Jacques Grüber in 1899.