Medusa? Jaws? No, just a Rhododendron...

Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
edited April 18, 2008 in Holy Macro
By careful sharpening (high pass) the tips of the stamens, this flower on the rhodendron bush at the Conservative Club (I'm not a 'Tory, it's where the camera club meets) to me looks eeirily like the head of Medusa (sort of) or a set of jaws on some mythical creature....

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Paul.


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  • teamracephotosteamracephotos Registered Users Posts: 492 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2008
    Very Nice...
    I am thinking the alien from the resent War of the Worlds movie. It have the arms that came out of it… MM
    “I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
    — Lord Byron
  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2008
    Lovely shot- I'm too used to taking shots of these- looks like a rhododendron :)
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  • Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2008
    Heheh, thanks guys.


    Paul.


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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited April 18, 2008
    Paul Iddon wrote:
    By careful sharpening (high pass) the tips of the stamens, this flower on the rhodendron bush at the Conservative Club (I'm not a 'Tory, it's where the camera club meets) to me looks eeirily like the head of Medusa (sort of) or a set of jaws on some mythical creature....

    Paul.

    Thats a really nice shot Paul, I had a pink Rhododendron once,
    but it died after the first year ne_nau.gif I suck at gardening rolleyes1.gif

    ...... Skippy :D
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