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Category: Beautiful

  • Another Hummingbird Video

    Yesterday, there was a brief break from more urgent tasks (just kidding – I wanted to take a break and do something fun), so started checking my latest video clips for something interesting to post.

    My original target was a set of ants in flower(s) clips, but before those were three hummingbird clips taken 2026, October 15th, that might make something viewable. Poststabilized, trimmed, cropped and with fade through black transitions.

    Hummingbird feeding in red flowers

    It was a sunny day, and I had been neglecting my flower walks, when I saw a hummingbird that was intent on feeding from red flowers. A couple of times she flew aside when pedestrians walked past, but returned to feed nearly instantly after they had passed. She must have been hungry.

    And she was most likely she because of her muted colors – male hummingbirds have brilliant, iridescent coloration, females are better camouflaged. Although spotting a bright green, leaf-shaped male hummingbird singing in a tree can be very challenging, and often I just walk away knowing that he was there but I could not see the bird from the leaves.

    An ant in a flower. Some of the ant clips taken were not very happening ones, the ant kept on feeding(?), not walking much.

  • Surnuinmäki, February 2025

    This is what a forest often looks like. In a cultivated forests, trees get felled once they reach maturity, but new forest grows or is planted to take their place.

    Last year, I visited Finland twice. Once in the winter, another time at the time at the turn of late spring to summer. I took many video clips during those trips, in hopes of turning them into backdrops for commentary videos, politics, phenomena and such, material for creative works by what would become PlanktonPunkt Designs. At that point, I was not yet certain what my business would be, whether it was social media creation, print on demand, artist/author, or some hybrid of some or all of this, or more. I still have not processed most of my material from Finland, but here are a couple of clips, unstabilized but trimmed and muted.

    This video material is of Finnish forest in February. These particular clips are from when I visited my forest plot to plan sale of timber and to get photographic and video material for PlanktonPunkt Designs. Some of the photos taken that day have since made it onto print on demand products. Hopefully, there will be many sales in the future, once folks find my designs online. Or when my trees have grown into sale size without getting killed by moose, insects, fungi, or bad weather.

    Maybe I will one of these years even find time to do a voice over for some short presentation and even post the results on YouTube. Meanwhile, I am planning on taking screenshots so as to get more raw material for print on demand designs. I think there might be something in some of these or the rest of the February videos that could be processed for a Christmas season. If not for this year, maybe for next year.

    A silent video of trees and snow.

  • Light on Fallen Leaves

    Going through photos and videos, I noticed a clip from 2026, September 25th, light on fallen leaves. Cropped and transformed into a GIF, and presented below.

  • Hummingbird

    Hummingbirds were very active about a month ago, and they are still conspicuously around.

    I spotted this individual September 3rd, 2026 and got a couple of clips of it singing, edited here for a different view of a hummingbird.

    There are many videos of a bright hummingbird hovering around flowers. This video is about a small dark bird sitting on a tree branch like a dry leaf, except for bopping while singing its shrill song (barely audible in this recording), before departing in the end.

    Enjoy! (There was no lightning, it is just a strange illusion caused by poorly chosen transition between the two segments. It also sounds like there is one or few coughs / throat clearings / unspecified sounds mixed with the birdsong, my apologies.)

    Hummingbird singing on a tree.

    Tomorrow, September 22nd, is the 2026 Autumn Equinox. After that the days will be shorter than nights until Spring Equinox 2027.

  • More Flowers and Insects

    A clip from May 9th, 2026. Summer has been blasting hot and busy, and the annual fire season has begun, but here flowers are getting scarce many having gone to seed and dried. I have managed to get more material, but not really processed it, having been preoccupied with getting my Etsy sales channel to EU shape (unless something dramatic happens, over halfway though). However, I have some older clips ready for those times when I need to post something quickly.

    Not sure what the purple flowers are but they smell and look kind of like mint. The white flowers are one of the many jasmine smelling species. The big black insect looks like a carpenter bee but I could be wrong.

    As for posting, I have also a couple drafts of longer posts that have been waiting for suitable time and reference checks and links, years have taught me not to trust my little bubble brain before publishing. Unless it is listed under Speculative writings or at least Unorthodox Ideas. Wettenhovi-Aspa tag is for deriving meanings from extremely implausible, if not chance associations. Maybe I should one of these days try reductio ad absurdum, but it is very difficult to parody modern world. Which is why I prefer to just do news commentary, as grim as it may from time to time get.

  • Bees in Lavender

    A GIF of lavender on July 17th, with a couple of bees.

  • July 16th, 2026

    Been busy, but managed to get some photography and short video clips, joined three together into a short silent video (standard stabilization artefacts apply), two clips of giant white poppies, probably Romneya or Matilija poppies which are native to California, and one clip of bees foraging in lavender.

    I like the floppy petals of the poppies. The lavender and bees seem to be an all year feature – when one lavender bed withers, another seems to begin to bloom somewhere else, if not immediately, then soon.

    Not all flowers are showy – here is Plantago (I don’t know the species, but it’s not Plantago major based on the narrow .leaves). I would love to process some day a photo of a Plantago flower from close up, they are quite funky to look at but difficult to photograph so as to show it.

  • Skipper Butterfly and Flowers, July 10th, 2026

    While walking with intention to snap photos of urban vegetation, I noticed a skipper butterfly within videoing distance. Quickly, a clip before it flies away! It did not. I took a second clip. The butterfly had slightly shifted. I waited and took three more clips in case the butterfly would do something interesting. It id not. It was mostly concentrating on florettes. Eventually, I continued my walk and left the butterfly at it.

    A bit of a slow paced video, but maybe somebody will find it ASMR despite the stabilization errors. Maybe I should invest on gimbal, but that would be one extra thing to carry for a rare moment (that will without gimbal be shaky or distorted depending on whether the original or the stabilized clips are used.)

    Sucking nectar. Occasionally shifting position.

    Some yellow flowers from July 10th, 2026, image cropped and colors adjusted brighter.

  • Tree Bark, An Art Video

    Testing variations on a photo of tree bark (2026, June 2nd). I was thinking about uploading this or a shorter version to Etsy under my shop profile as an enticement for people to look at my designs. Also to Pinterest, if the video is short enough, and a higher resolution version into YouTube (as of June 28th, 2026, my previous art video about yellow flowers had had massive 7 views total – popularity eludes me.)

    Be forewarned, this video is over 2 minutes long.

  • Midsummer Day

    Still eschewing traditional celebrations.

    Decided instead to make an art video illustrating some variations in a theme, based on a photograph of some yellow flowers (looks like they are related to agaves or aloes) taken in Berkeley, CA, June 2nd, 2026. Just as a demonstration of the types of designs I have so far usually used for PlanktonPunkt Designs.

    I am planning to make more of these, occasionally (the next one will probably be about tree bark), and post them here, Pinterest and/or YouTube.