Tasmanian Waratah - Telopea truncata

TassieAnna

Tasmanian Waratah - Telopea truncata

One of the most beautiful of all species endemic to Tasmania, the waratah blooms around early spring. These majestic flowers can be found all over the state, but especially throughout the west coast region.

We have a nearby township named after these magnificent blooms, appropriately called “Waratah”. Any person visiting Tasmania during the flowering season would find the roadsides around this town alive with wild waratah blooms flowering on shrubs up to around 20 feet high.

I love these flowers, and I love taking photo’s of them. This one was shot in a garden at our local hospital. Once the vignetting filter was added, I managed to even impress myself with the way this shot turned out.

My most popular shot with 1281 views as of Nov 29 2009

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Tasmanian Waratah - Telopea truncata by TassieAnna
Tasmanian Waratah - Telopea truncata by TassieAnna
  • Bruce Wallace (Wombatwal)

    Bruce Wallace ...

    What a beautiful and dramatic image, well done.
    Telopea truncata is it’s botanical name.

  • TassieAnna

    TassieAnna

    Thanks wombatwal. Thanks also for the botanical name, I had completely forgot to put that in the description

  • Evita

    Evita

    Absolutely beautiful capture! Congratulations on your feature! :D

  • DottieDees

    DottieDees

    This is magnificent! so gorgeous! great work!

  • gatherdowns

    gatherdowns

    This shot really pokes out at you. Superbly done.

  • Cheryl Lunde

    Cheryl Lunde

    Amazing capture!

  • bevanimage

    bevanimage

    A beautiful flower, and great vignette effect! Congratulations on your feature.

  • Cheryl Lunde

    Cheryl Lunde

    congrats on the feature!

  • TassieAnna

    TassieAnna

    Thank you all for the comments and kudos

  • redrosedigital

    redrosedigital

    Congratulations on the Challenge win – it’s an absolute stunner. The clarity of the petals is amazing.

  • Michael Matthews

    Michael Matthews

    Congratulations on your winning image. This is a beauty. Well done.

  • Dennis Gay

    Dennis Gay

    G’day Anna,

    My heartiest congratulations on this striking avatar winner. We will all be seeing fireworks like this on New Year’s Eve.
    You have a wonderfully clear image of this lovely Aussie native as a basis for the great dramatic processing you have applied.
    The square format is the only way to go I feel and the slight angle across the face of the flower shows a very good eye for composition.

    GB
    Dennis

  • TassieAnna

    TassieAnna

    Thank you for the comments and praise Rosanne, Michael & Dennis. This was one of those very lucky shots that just “worked”.

  • envirojo

    envirojo

    It’s absolutely AMAZING!!
    Well done and congratulations on winning the comp :)

  • Claire Farley

    Claire Farley

    Awesome shot! Congrats on your win!

  • Marilyn Harris

    Marilyn Harris

    Wow!! Stunning!! Congratulations on your win!! So deserving!! :o)

  • lozzar

    lozzar

    The filter worked a treat, it looks more like a painting. Inspiring photography.

  • TassieAnna

    TassieAnna

    Thank you again, you are all very kind :-)

  • TaGiRoCkS

    TaGiRoCkS

    whoa this is awesome as!!!
    how’d you get it on the black background?

  • TassieAnna replied

    Thanks, the black background was achieved by using a photoshop plugin called filters unlimited and the vignette filter provided, though it could also have equally have been achieved through a spotlight lighting effect in standard photoshop effects filters. There was also a bit of desaturation of the green background to finish it off

  • junebug076

    junebug076

    Absolutely Stunning…..........DJ :)

  • TassieAnna replied

    Thanks, this is definitely one of those shots that just worked…more luck than skill LOL

  • Terry Arcia

    Terry Arcia

    Nice!!!

  • Paul Navarrette

    Paul Navarrette

    This is truly an amazing photo of an equally amazing plant :)

  • Erica Williams

    Erica Williams

    Stunning pic! Although, are you sure it’s the Tassie Waratah?? Telopea truncata typically has a small flower head with only few sparse stamens. If this plant was in a garden it’s most likely to be the showy NSW Waratah, Telopea speciosissima which has quite a large, dense flowering head.

  • TassieAnna replied

    The identity of this plant as telopea truncata is beyond doubt.

  • TassieAnna replied

    will add to that the flower grows wild all over the west coast in a much larger flower head than can be found in the midlands or east coast varieties. There is absolutely no way this is the nSW variety (which I am also very familiar with)

  • Katagram

    Katagram

  • chirose2

    chirose2

    Stunning image! Congratulations!
    I’d love to know what a vignetting filter is!

  • chirose2

    chirose2

    Stunning image! Congratulations!
    I’d love to know what a vignetting filter is!

  • TassieAnna replied

    Thank you for the comment. A vignetting filter simply darkens the image from the corners towards the centre. Depending on the settings, anything in its path will be blacked out. Final background removal was achieved through adjusting contrast and brightness.

  • chirose2

    chirose2

    Thanks for that. I’ll have to try it!

    Sheree

  • Lozzie5243

    Lozzie5243 24 days ago

    Congratulations on winning the challenge – a magnificent shot.

  • TassieAnna replied 24 days ago

    Thank you very much Lozzie

  • gabriellehope

    gabriellehope 23 days ago

    BEAUTIFUL!!!

  • TassieAnna replied 23 days ago

    Thanks Gabrielle, glad you like it.

  • tinnieopener

    tinnieopener 23 days ago

    Terrific capture…well done:o)

  • TassieAnna replied 23 days ago

    Thank you tinnieopener

  • Judy O'Neil

    Judy O'Neil 23 days ago

    Congratulations on your well deserved Feature and Fantastic shot :))

  • TassieAnna replied 23 days ago

    Thanks Judy, much appreciated

  • Bob Wickham

    Bob Wickham 23 days ago

    ... and destined to become more popular after your feature. Congratulations, it’s a beautiful image and your processing of it is superb.

  • TassieAnna replied 23 days ago

    Thank you very much Bob

  • bicyclegirl

    bicyclegirl 23 days ago

    What a great flower and capture! The vignette and post are perfect. At first I thought this was some wild PS skill till I read the info! lol

  • TassieAnna replied 22 days ago

    Thank you bicyclegirl. I was quite surprised the way it worked with exceptionally little post processing.

  • Anna D'Accione

    Anna D'Accione 22 days ago

    Fantastic image. /Congratulations on being featured. Very well deserved

  • TassieAnna replied 22 days ago

    Thank you very much Anna – (Nice name by the way) lol

  • Lesley Smitheringale

    Lesley Smither... 18 days ago

    A remarkable macro and you certainly knew what you were doing the filters!

  • Lesley Smitheringale

    Lesley Smither... 18 days ago

    sorry, I meant to say with the filters!

  • TassieAnna replied 17 days ago

    Thank you very much Lesley. Actually my photoshop skills are quite poor, and this was a complete fluke :-))))

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