Guyana, Demerara-Mahaica Region, Georgetown, Lotus flower bud, Nelumbo nucifera, in the Botanical Gardens. The lotus flower comes originally from India and is considered sacred to the Hindus and Buddh...

Guyana, Demerara-Mahaica Region, Georgetown, Lotus flower and seed pod, Nelumbo nucifera, in the Botanical Gardens. The lotus flower comes originally from India and is considered sacred to the Hindus...

Guyana, Demerara-Mahaica Region, Georgetown, Lotus flower, Nelumbo nucifera, in the Botanical Gardens. The lotus flower comes originally from India and is considered sacred to the Hindus and Buddhists...

Guyana, Demerara-Mahaica Region, Georgetown, Lotus flower, Nelumbo nucifera, in the Botanical Gardens. The lotus flower comes originally from India and is considered sacred to the Hindus and Buddhists...

Guyana, Demerara-Mahaica Region, Georgetown, Lotus flower bud, Nelumbo nucifera, in the Botanical Gardens. The lotus flower comes originally from India and is considered sacred to the Hindus and Buddh...

Guyana, Demerara-Mahaica Region, Georgetown, Lotus flower bud and seed pod, Nelumbo nucifera, in the Botanical Gardens. The lotus flower comes originally from India and is considered sacred to the Hin...

Guyana, Demerara-Mahaica Region, Georgetown, Silk Cotton or Kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra, in the Botanical Gardens. In the foreground are lotus plants.

Guyana, Demerara-Mahaica Region, Georgetown, Silk Cotton or Kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra, in the Botanical Gardens. A large agave plant is flowering at left.

Zebra Longwing or Zebra Heliconia Butterfly, (Heliconius charitonia), feeding on a flower near Panajachel, Guatemala

Three Mexican Silverspot Butterflies, Dione moneta poeyii, on a plant in the Atitlan Nature Reserve near Panajachel, Guatemala.

Mexican pinenut, Pinus cembroides, Masses of pine nuts in a pile with moody light.

Pasqueflower, Pulsatilla vulgaris, single flower not quite open, backlit in early morning sunlight.