Waxy white beauty berries (Callicarpa species) ripening on a slender branch. Nature hedges her bets, not allowing all the seeds in the berries to ripen at once. Where one seed may fail, a later one may succeed. Photograph by Betty Mackey.
Dandelion silhouette at sunset.
I love the different textures and colors this little bud had… it has the same colors as a peacock feather! This was taken with a sigma 105mm macro lens, the bud was tiny about the size of my pinky nail.
Adonidia Merrillii / Veitchia merrillii / Manilla Palm / Tropical Gardens of Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / Ourjrny / The Heart Within the Art / All Rights Reserved “What is homing? It is the instinct to return, to go to the place we remember. It is the ability to find, whether in dark or in daylight, one’s home place. We all know how to return home. No matter how long it’s been, we find our way. we go through the night, over strange land, through tribes of strangers, without maps and asking of the odd personages we meet along the road, “What is the way?” The exact answer to “Where is home?” is more complex…. but in some way it is an eternal place, a place somewhere in time rather than space, where a woman feels of one piece. Home is where a thought or feeling can be sustained instead of being interrupted or torn away from us because something else is demanding our time and attention. And through the ages women have found myriad ways to have this, make this for themselves, even when their duties and chores were endless.” an excerpt from Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi /
Visited the Botanical Garden this am and found this really unusual Tree, these are the Flowers, the stem and trunk are covered in spikey bits.The fruit is as large as coconuts and similar looking though without husks, hence the name Cannonball, apparently they are edible but the smell puts People off. / The Flowers smell lovely. / The Trees are grown from seeds and originally came from South America. Floral Art is Caring and Seeing the Environment via Art
Untouched macro photographs in sepia of the parsley going to seed in my garden. Best viewed LARGE
Straight from my Nikon D90~
just messing in photoshop / Nikon D90~
*Thank you to catherine veal for helping me with textures…. / hope you like it xxx * / Nikon D40x
As is Fuji finepix S8100 a dandelion seed with a waterdroplet showing a piece of my garden. 35 favorites / / /
Montage of the Clematis flower with the hue changed on each
Taken with a canon 5D Mark ll and 100 mm marco lens / Featured in ‘The woman photographer’ / Featured in ‘Color me a rainbow’ / Top ten in ‘Best of FEATURED White Works’ in ‘Colour me a rainbow’ This photo and many more are in my Raindrop calendar. Click on the photo below to view it.
“In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.” ~Abram L. Urban /
featured in The World As We See It 10-17-2009 / featured in Valentines&Hearts 10-15-2009 / featured in Inspired by Poetry 08-30-2009 / featured in Insomniacs & other Night Crawlers 07-24-2009 / featured in Globes, Sphere’s & Curves 07-23-2009 / featured in Peace, Love & Happiness Hippies 08-07-2009 Sowing The Seeds Of LoveHigh time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man / And the lovetrain rides from coast to coast / D.J.’s the man we love the most / Could you be, could you be squeaky clean / And smash any hope of democracry ? / As the headline says you’re free to choose / There’s egg on your face and mud on your shoes / One of these days they’re gonna call it the blues / And anything is possible when you’re Sowing the Seeds of Love / Anything is possible – Sowing the Seeds of Love / I spy tears in thier eyes / They look to the skies for some kind of divine intervention / Food goes to waste ! / So nice to eat, so nice to taste / Politician Grannie with your high ideals / Have you no idea how the Majority feels ? / So without love and a promise land / We’re fools to the rules of a Goverment plan / Kick out the style ! Bring back the jam ! / Anything… / Sowing the Seeds / The birds and the bees / My girlfriend and me in love / Feel the pain / Talk about it / If you’re a worried man – then shout about it / Open hearts – feel about it / Open minds – think about it / Everyone – read about it / Everyone – scream about it ! / Everyone / Everyone – read about it, read about it / Read in the books in the crannies and the nooks there are books to read / Chorus ! / (Mr. England Sowing the Seeds of Love) / Time to eat all your words / Swallow your pride / Open your eyes / High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man / And the lovetrain rides from coast to coast / Every minute of every hour – ” I Love a Sunflower “ / And I believe in lovepower, Love power, LOVEPOWER !!! / Sowing the Seeds / An end to need / And the Politics of Greed / With love / (Lyrics Tears for Fears) / Fractal Explorer, Incendia, Apophysis, THC,
Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 26mm ~ 1/400’s ~ f / 10 ~ ISO=200 / Hand Held / Manual Focus / RAW / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / ________ / ________ / ________
Rose from my garden. / / /
Taken with a Canon 5D Mark II, 100 mm macro lens. Featured in ‘For the love of Canon’ / Featured in ‘Backyard Macro and Close ups’ / Top Ten- Water challenge in ‘Boredom Competitions’ This photo and many more are in my Raindrop calendar. Click on the photo below to view it. / Some of my other daisy / dandelion photos /
A couple of dandelions with the last remaining seeds. / Texture layers added. Camera – Nikon D90
I couldnt resist capturing these lovely poppy seedheads but then felt they deserved something more… So for the very first time ever (!) a teensy bit of texture.. Critique and suggestions would be most welcome and hugely appreciated…. Thanks so much for looking / Cheers / :))) Nikon D60 / Nikkor VR 18-200 lens / UV filter / f/5.3 / 1/640sec / ISO-200 / 75mm Tweaked in PS Els6 (including crop and slight vignette) and own texture overlaid.. 37%
As is – Straight out of the camera! For more information please visit Brian’s Homepage or on Flickr
An original capture of Moonflower seed pods….captured in Northern, CA on 10/03/09 / They begin from these large thorny pods, and this is the final result at the end of their life cycle – only to begin again…. / Moonflower 08 / Labor Day Moonflower Copyright protected and registered – please respect copyrights. / / /
“Painted in a semi-abstract style, “The Fifth Sorrow” evokes the woodland in Hughes poem.. / I decided to paint it to look like old woven tapestry, and to that end used only sea sponges and a rigger for details…light is pouring down through the centre of the wood, casting the roots into deeper shadow, illuminating the leaves and the tree trunks…the chiaroscuro effect gives the viewer the feeling of being bathed in the same light... Watercolour on Drawmaster Not Paper View the entire Landscape Collection HERE The first sorrow of autumn / Is the slow goodbye / Of the garden who stands so long in the evening- / A brown poppy head, / The stalk of a lily, / And still cannot go. The second sorrow / Is the empty feet / Of a pheasant who hangs from a hook with his brothers. / The woodland of gold / Is folded in feathers / With its head in a bag. And the third sorrow / Is the slow goodbye / Of the sun who has gathered the birds and who gathers / The minutes of evening, / The golden and holy / Ground of the picture. The fourth sorrow / Is the pond gone black / Ruined and sunken the city of water- / The beetle’s palace, / The catacombs / Of the dragonfly. And the fifth sorrow / Is the slow goodbye / Of the woodland that quietly breaks up its camp. / One day it’s gone. / It has only left litter- / Firewood, tentpoles. And the sixth sorrow / Is the fox’s sorrow / The joy of the huntsman, the joy of the hounds, / The hooves that pound / Till earth closes her ear / To the fox’s prayer. And the seventh sorrow / Is the slow goodbye / Of the face with its wrinkles that looks through the window / As the year packs up / Like a tatty fairground / That came for the children....Ted Hughes / The First Sorrow / The Third Sorrow / The Fourth Sorrow
Found in my mums garden. Mansfield, Victoria, Australia. / Nikon D40x, 105mm VR Micro Nikkor /
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