John Zaharick

@johnzaharick.com

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Unconventional substrates, such as flatworms

Blobby black silhouette with two glowing yellow eyes, right larger than the left, far from the camera, tucked under wooden beams, surrounded by wooden support columns, on a bed of stones. Thin Virginia creeper vines snake through the foreground.
Photo of two red beetles with black spots on the underside of a large green leaf. The smaller beetle has mounted the larger one.
Photo of the end of a log with a white, smiling cartoon cloud dropping a yellow lightning bolt drawn on the cross section. Green leaves (real, not drawn) surround it.
Close up photo of a wooden fence with a wooly mammoth drawn on it in white paint.
Black, white, and yellow striped caterpillar eating a leaf on a tall green stem with opposite leaves
Photo of puffy dandelion heads scattered across dirt and burnt plants. Catalpa seed pods from the previous year stretch into the picture.
A 6-inch tall plant with long, lancelike green leaves close to the ground and an unopened flower bud rising on a skinny stalk above them in freshly wet soil. Black plastic and dead leaves are pulled away in the background. A small sign reading Coreopsis, early sunrise, golden yellow flowers, $3 is staked in the ground by it.
Green, grass-like leaves growing in a clump, emerging from brown dead leaves and black weed plastic. Weeds still sprout near it. The scene is bisected by shade on top and sun on bottom.
Top down view of two light green fern crowns among brown, dead leaves and black weed plastic. A Virginia creeper crawls in from the right.
Top down view of a crown of light green fern leaves among brown dead leaves.
Green, round leaves on a vine emerging from a plastic pot with a pumpkin tag that says Howden. A tan pumpkin seed clings to one leaf.
Top down view of a red tulip, looking directly at the stamens and pistils. Yellow dandelions are out of focus in the background.
Screenshot of a Google search for "besicovitch sets" with suggested additional search terms underneath: women's, nearby, on sale, get it by Friday
A photograph of a metal chandelier, gray and gold with copper wire bundles near the base, hanging in a brightly lit glass box.
Photo of the back of a brown packet describing mushroom coffee and drawings of the mushrooms used in it.
White calcium deposits coat the black soil of a ceramic pot, like mineral fungus. A green leaf and stem sprout from the mix.
A 2-inch tall glass bottle with a cork containing 8 or 9 cicada molts posed against a white sheet of paper.
Close up image of a yard. The ground is covered in sunflower shells. A few blades of grass poke through. Dozens of dicot sunflower sprouts form most of the green.
A Lego brick model of the Blue Ghost lunar lander in the corner of a desk, in front of push pin cubicle walls. Approximately 4 inches high. A yellow, cylindrical model with blue solar panels.
Rectangular hole with horizontal beams across the top in a frozen lake with amber grass and bare trees.
A several foot wide crack in tan colored rock deep inside Niagara Cave, Minnesota.
Duckweed collects against reeds in a river with two turbines in the distance.
A standing tree that is hollowed out in the middle.
Green and brown lichen on a gray boulder.
Photograph of a cicada molting, clinging to a stone column.