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Ormond Beach, FL
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Title
Blue Button
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A blue button washed up on the beach. Blue buttons - Porpita porpita - are pelagic marine organisms made up of a colony of hydroids that live in the round chambered float made of a chitin-like material.
This image has been featured in the following groups:
Go Take A Hike Photography Group (8/13/2023) &
The 200 Club - best photos with over 200 views up to 500 (07/16/2016)
These pelagic marine organisms occasionally wash up on Florida beaches, sometimes in great numbers. Blue buttons passively float on the surface of tropical and sub-tropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
Each blue button is actually a colony of hydroids that live in the round chambered float made of a chitin-like material. The disks range from 2-4cm (~3/4 - 1-1/2in.) in diameter and when alive are mostly brown on top. The individual zooids range from a bright blue turquoise to yellow, and each have specialized functions such as prey capture, digestion or reproduction. In the center of the underside is the 'mouth' which takes in food and expels waste. The tentacles have stinging cells to stun prey. These are not powerful enough to harm humans, but some people have reported an irritation from contact.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
Uploaded
August 25th, 2014
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Viewed 1,551 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/25/2024 at 8:14 PM
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Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Spectacular Blue Button composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! Congratulations on your beautiful moving Special Feature! F/L
La Paz - Bolivia
Fascinating, had never heard of these, congratulations on your 3rd place in the Naturally Round Objects contest!
Niceville, Fl - United States
Congratulations on your 3d place win in the Naturally Round Objects contest! voted
Centennial, CO - United States
Congratulations, Paul – your stunning scene finished third place in the Go Take a Hike Photography Group’s Naturally Round Objects photo contest! It will be placed on the group homepage as a special feature for the week, as well in the Contest Winners thread in the group discussion board for archive.
Niceville, Fl - United States
Excellent! Voted your entry in the Naturally Round Objects contest. l/f
Centennial, CO - United States
Congratulations, Paul – your naturally round object has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2023 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
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