Yes, you can see the leaf it's held up on. It couldn't be a flower as such. A flower has (in virtually all cases) to admit some pollinator or other (insect, bird, wind...). This had an apparently unbroken surface. This is too perfect a surface. No natural plant surface is that reflective, but bubbles can be. A very clever (or lucky - the two often go together...) photograph.
Jun 23 2010, 4:22 PM
serpa
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Behold all scoffers. This right here is the real deal.
Ye gods, that's an irritating page! (babies and great tits floating round...) Another good pic - but no flower.
Jun 23 2010, 5:10 PM
queproblema
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This may be a mile off, but it's a real flower.
"Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) is a tall...biennial plant... The common name 'Honesty' arose in the 16th century, and it may be due to the translucent seed-pods which are like flattened pea-pods and borne on the plant through winter. In South-East Asia and elsewhere, it is called the Money Plant, because its seed pods have the appearance of silver coins. In the United States it may also be known as "Silver Dollars," also because of the seed pods. In Denmark it is known as Judaspenge and in The Netherlands as Judaspenning (coins of Judas) because of its resemblance to silver coins, a reference to Judas Iscariot." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunaria_annua
Irritating? At the link I posted? Maybe not the right answer but nothing to offend anyone.
Jun 23 2010, 5:50 PM
looney_tunes
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Serpa's link shows a lovely picture, and a message underneath saying it is a picture of a bubble resting on a plant.
Baloo needs a new Web browser - I didn't see anything as exciting as suggested!
Jun 23 2010, 5:54 PM
queproblema
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Baloo's excitement resides in the right side of his lexical brain: down at the bottom of the ephotozine page are links to take one forward or backwards in the gallery. Backwards is a tit--a bird--and forward, a baby. Here's the bird: http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/438320
(A friend of mine, birdwatching and shivering in the rain, declared she wasn't quitting until she got a pair of blue tits.)
:-D
Jun 23 2010, 6:19 PM
serpa
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Oh! Ha-ha! I get it. Another obscure pun that went over my head. Good one, Baloo. Thanks qp for your help.