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Another invisible flowers gallery

NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
edited October 22, 2010 in Other Cool Shots
I'm just starting developing another little collection of flowers. Here's the first. I'll add to this thread as I finish each one, over about a week, so keep checking back!


1. Submerged

These lily-like flowers are intensely red. However, when I looked at the images I got of them, although their stunning vividness was there in beautiful colour, the sensuousness of their surface texture and sculpted form didn't come through. So I submerged this one in black and white, and tried to reveal in that different light those qualities that were overwhelmed in colour.


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2. Native Australians - Sydney Rock Orchids


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3. Angels


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4. Alice's Garden


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5. Equinox


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6. Samsara


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7. Chocolate Soldiers


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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2010
    Added #2, Dendrobium speciosum!!eek7.gif

    Neil
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    black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,322 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2010
    Very good work, Neil. I'm anxiously awaiting the additions to come.

    Take care,

    Tom
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    jackiejayjackiejay Registered Users Posts: 714 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2010
    me 2 nice pics:)
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    jsquerijsqueri Registered Users Posts: 244 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2010
    I love #1. Great lines, texture and BW conversion.
    John

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    RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,937 moderator
    edited October 13, 2010
    I love the orchids. I'd be interested in seeing a color version of #1. Somehow it looks more like a sea creature than a flower in B&W. Not that I have anything against sea creatures...mwink.gif.
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2010
    Richard wrote: »
    I love the orchids.

    Much appreciated, R!

    Richard wrote: »
    I'd be interested in seeing a color version of #1. Somehow it looks more like a sea creature than a flower in B&W.

    That's what it's going to be in its next life!mwink.gif

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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2010
    black mamba wrote: »
    Very good work, Neil. I'm anxiously awaiting the additions to come.

    Take care,

    Tom

    Many thanks for your encouragement, Tom!

    Neil
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2010
    jackiejay wrote: »
    me 2 nice pics:)

    Thanks jackiejay! Nice to read your comment!

    Neil
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2010
    jsqueri wrote: »
    I love #1. Great lines, texture and BW conversion.

    Very happy you liked it, John. Thanks for your kind comments.

    Neil
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2010
    Something unidentified just flew in!:confused It's #3!

    Neil
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    jackiejayjackiejay Registered Users Posts: 714 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2010
    Beautiful!! :)
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    DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2010
    Beautiful work on these. #2 is a really neat plant. I like that one the best. Something I've never seen before.

    Texture shows up nicely in your first photo. Still am curious tho what it looks like in color :D

    The petals in your 3rd photo look so fragile and thin. You really caught the look and feel well with that one.
    Mary
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2010
    jackiejay wrote: »
    Beautiful!! :)

    :D

    Neil
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2010
    Dogdots wrote: »
    Beautiful work on these. #2 is a really neat plant. I like that one the best. Something I've never seen before.

    Texture shows up nicely in your first photo. Still am curious tho what it looks like in color :D

    The petals in your 3rd photo look so fragile and thin. You really caught the look and feel well with that one.

    Thanks for looking in, Mary, and your interesting remarks.

    (Also @ Richard) Stephany found a good photo in colour of an anthuriam (#1):

    http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~presslar/CultivatedAnthurium/Pics/Anthurium.JPG

    In the case of the flower in my photo, the pistil(?)* was also red, and this was part of the reason why it blended with the petal in the colour version.

    Neil

    *EDIT: I believe it's a spadix.
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2010
    Incorrigible Alice has gone through that looking glass again, and what she saw is in #4!mwink.gif

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    StephanyStephany Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited October 14, 2010
    Yes, #1 is Anthurium or sometimes called 'Boy Flower'. Wonder what made 'it' curl up instead of straight up:-) Neil, tell, is #4 the seed pod of a crocus? Really a great photo and so is #2.
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2010
    Stephany wrote: »
    Wonder what made 'it' curl up instead of straight up

    Some "immortal hand or eye"!mwink.gif (Blake http://www.bartleby.com/101/489.html)
    Stephany wrote: »
    ... is #4 the seed pod of a crocus?

    No, I don't think it is. It is something from South Africa. A mystery at the moment, as with many other things!:D

    Thanks for the info and kind comments, Stephany!

    Neil
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    ZerodogZerodog Registered Users Posts: 1,480 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2010
    They are all nice but #2 does it for me. Great work on these.
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2010
    Here is another anthurium, in colour, from my original set, for the enthusiasts!thumb.gif

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    Neil
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2010
    Zerodog wrote: »
    They are all nice but #2 does it for me. Great work on these.

    Much appreciated, Zerodog!

    Neil
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    StephanyStephany Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited October 15, 2010
    Neil,
    whoa! All red and not painted. You do have some intresting flora in Australia. Want to jump on the plane to see it or to 'borrow' it. Am curious if it is peloric or, if there such species. The photo is great. Thanks for posting it.
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2010
    Stephany wrote: »
    Neil,
    whoa! All red and not painted. You do have some intresting flora in Australia. Want to jump on the plane to see it or to 'borrow' it. Am curious if it is peloric or, if there such species. The photo is great. Thanks for posting it.

    Well, you know, Stephany, I have the same urge in the opposite direction. I believe anthurium is native to the Americas. Australia does have fascinating flora, but like the country as a whole most of it is undemonstrative. You have to purposely work at finding something to love about it, though it is lovable. You certainly have to look harder because a lot of the flora are minute. The perfumes are one of its major distinctions. There is nothing quite like the smell of the Australian bush in flower.

    I understand that peloric refers to novel symmetry exhibited by a normally asymmetrical flower. The type of anthurium I photographed seems to be asymmetrical. I have seen that both symmetry and asymmetry are found in species of anthurium, or to be more precise the spadix can be straight, spiralled, etc. You could put the final word to this.

    Neil
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2010
    #5 has appeared in the middle of the night.

    Neil
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    snowman1snowman1 Registered Users Posts: 272 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2010
    Great work, All are very well done.



    Doug




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    D'BuggsD'Buggs Registered Users Posts: 958 Major grins
    edited October 16, 2010
    :jawdrop
    'nuff said.
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 17, 2010
    snowman1 wrote: »
    Great work, All are very well done.



    Doug




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    Thanks for the encouragement, Doug!

    Neil
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 17, 2010
    D'Buggs wrote: »
    :jawdrop
    'nuff said.

    Thanks for the big boost, D'Buggs!

    Neil
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 17, 2010
    Feel like going for a spin? Well, there's #6...

    Neil
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    StephanyStephany Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited October 17, 2010
    Very moving and 'Samsara' describes it so well:-) Ferns are also my favored and one I grow in the my little garden is 'Kangarro fern' native to Australia. Makes a gorgeous houseplant also and easy to grow.
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    NeilLNeilL Registered Users Posts: 4,201 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2010
    Stephany wrote: »
    Very moving and 'Samsara' describes it so well:-) Ferns are also my favored and one I grow in the my little garden is 'Kangarro fern' native to Australia. Makes a gorgeous houseplant also and easy to grow.

    An expatriate fern! I'm sure it's thriving in your care. Just a tip, every morning say "G'day, mate!" to it!:D

    Appreciate the kind remarks, Stephany.

    Neil
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