Thumbelina's Flower
The biggest challenge came in the smallest size, and it doesn’t take size to love and treasure something. Folded this one out of a 3×3mm piece of trace paper.
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Paul Compton
Oh, oh oh oh oh. Absolutely incredibly beautiful. Truly magical.
Mui-Ling Teh replied
Thanks Paul. Now that I got this shot over with I can finally sleep; way past my bedtime here. Goodnight (or goodmorning…. way past midnight here lol). Well hey it’s a long weekend :P
Lori Peters
I don’t know how you can create something so small with precision. Very nice.
Mui-Ling Teh replied
Thanks Lori. It really did take a lot of patience. I had to redo it several times because this is really easy to loose :P.
hilarydougill
Fantastic work, beautifully done. sore fingers and eyes?
Mui-Ling Teh replied
No not really :P. Thanks!
Irene Burdell
Just amazing ,really beautiful.
Karin Taylor
that’s unbelievable…!!! Mui=Ling, I’m gobsmacked!!! are you kidding me????...that is incredible, how on earth!!!! You amazing, amazing artist you!!! WOW!!! wonderful… (can you tell how impressed I am:)
Mui-Ling Teh replied
lol. Thanks Karin :D So glad you like it ^ _ ^
Dawnsky2
goodness Mui-Ling, thats teeny weeny,, i thought it was a real flower til i read your discription…well done indeed….x
Mui-Ling Teh replied
I wonder if it was the trace paper’s translucency which makes it look more real. I wasn’t really thinking about it when I chose that paper; I just knew that I needed a thinner paper to fold that small. Thanks for the comment Dawnsky!
Paul Suryawinata
Very sensitively captured, Mui-Ling.. i really like your style.
Mui-Ling Teh replied
Thanks Paul!
cherylc1
just incredible!!! lovely!
Mui-Ling Teh replied
Thanks cheryl :)
blamo
Amazing
Mui-Ling Teh replied
Thank you blamo!
Lam Tran
Wow! You blown me away my friend! Outstanding patient and determination, great talent my friend! Smallest paper flower ever seen, well done my friend! People would buy that a gift shop! Well done my friend!
Mui-Ling Teh replied
Thank you my friend. This would need a good encasing to be sold in a gift shot; it can get lost VERY easily. I had to recut the paper several times myself because I’d accidently drop it in the process of folding, and it’d be hard to find because for one it is small, and another it’s trace paper. Talk about searching for a grain of sand in a desert :P
Mui-Ling Teh replied
whoops made a mistake in my last reply. Ofcourse grains of sand can be found everywhere :P I was going to say a grain of rice!
jdmphotography
Wow you are so clever awesome work all round brilliant ! (-;
Mui-Ling Teh replied
Thank you very much my friend :)
Lam Tran
Lol, that’s Ok my friend, I understood what you meant! Like find a needle in a haystack! Right my friend!
BlueKnot
(jaw drops to floor)
such delicacy!
Mui-Ling Teh replied
lol. Don’t you mean your samurai sword ;) your mouth doesn’t look like it can open :P
KEITH R. WILL...
nice work
Nikki Trexel
WOW. it’s incredible that anyone would be able to meticulously fold something so small! lovely work with the origami and the photo.
Mui-Ling Teh replied
Thank you! I’m glad you took notice of this one because sadly, although this is tiniest thing I folded it isn’t getting as much attention as my other mini creations. It occured to me that people are mistaking this shot for a real flower as opposed to one I made, that’s why it doesn’t seem like anything special until the description is read. It was even rejected by the Fine Arts group at first, and I had to bubblemail the moderator to explain that this was not just a photo, but a presentation of something I made.
funkyfacestudio
This is incredible, it must take a lot of patience, excellent work !
Greta McLaughlin
Wow! I too thought it was a real flower. I thought it was an amazing capture of a very teeny tiny flower. I then read your comment and now I find that not only is it a wonderful photograph, but also an amazing piece of art. Beautifully created and presented.
Mui-Ling Teh replied
Thank you! Glad it caught your eye.
Cathy Middleton
Exquisite work. You must be an extremely patient person. Beautifully titled too.
Christopher Bi...
sensational! love how youve done this, must take ages…..c xx
bubbleblue
great work
Euan Thorburn
have just voted for this
in the challenge
love it
xxxxxxx
Mui-Ling Teh replied
Many thanks!