Protea

Globalphotos, 8 months ago

Beautiful shot, awesome colours :)

GabrielK, 8 months ago

Fantastic shot AL, what a beautiful flower

jean-michel ma..., 8 months ago

whaouuuuuu…..!!!!! beautifull …!!!! c’est tres beau…!!!

whisperingruth, 8 months ago

What a wonderful way to showcase this incredible flower. Not only is the flower brilliant but I really like the background effect too.

clau, 8 months ago

So really beautiful!!!

toots, 8 months ago

Wow, so pretty!

Luis Correia, 8 months ago

Great shot love the colors

micmac, 8 months ago

Colors and details ,perfect in everyways.

stephen jones, 8 months ago

great image.

Trace Lowe, 8 months ago

Fantastic shot. Perfect!

Scott Ruhs, 8 months ago

This is amazing! It looks like it is lit from below.

Violeta Pérez ..., 8 months ago

What a Great colors!!!! really.. you have really nice pics

hallucingenic, 8 months ago

wow it looks so beauiful! the details are perfect :D

Holly Werner, 8 months ago

Another stunner.

Colin Tobin, 8 months ago

Stunning.
The colours are wonderful!

Joyce Dickens,..., 8 months ago

Beautiful capture!

velveteagle, 8 months ago

What great colors.. and the patterns of the petals are so cool..

lance leopold, 8 months ago

Stunning’s the word,Al,love the b/ground!!!

Stephen Mitchell, 8 months ago

Spectacular. The park where I shoot all my Protea’s has this same breed !

cathy savels, 8 months ago

The lighting in this is awesome.

diffusion, 8 months ago

beautiful!!!!! love the lighting, makes it look as if it glows

solarrain, 7 months ago

spectacular image…

anaphotography, 5 months ago

Awesome details and lighting!

Aritheeagle, 4 months ago

Giant or king protea
(Protea cynaroides )

The giant or king protea is widely distributed in the south-western and southern areas of the Western Cape, from the Cedarberg up to just east of Grahamstown.

The artichoke-like appearance of the flower-heads of the king protea lead to the specific name ‘cynaroides’, which means ‘like cynara’ (the artichoke). The name does not do justice to the beautiful flower-heads of this protea, which is the largest in the genus. A number of varieties in colour and leaf shapes are found, but the most beautiful is the pink coloured flower.

http://www.info.gov.za/aboutgovt/symbols/flower.htm =========================================
I have a few of these in my Healing Flower album that I have populated on Picasa. Its so regal and magnificent in its construction. I have always called it a Faberge Flower… cause it looks so naturally bejewelled!

Thanks for sharing this lovely image here…...
I just found out about it being the South African National Flower. Good… something learnt!

~Ari

Kristina Kitch..., 2 months ago

beautiful

LindaR, about 1 month ago

easily a fav ~ the light is shining out as much as in ~ such a beauty like this & nature’s design so amazing ~ it’s just singing affirmation of the divine ~ as you so beautiful framed it for this to happen, I thank you xx