The leaves were also pretty recently

The leaves were also pretty recently

Image by sunnyUK
The leaves from last year covering the ground around this beautifully optimistic daffodil. I imagine they're whispering, in voices only flowers can hear, "We were also pretty and colourful not long ago. The people were taking our photographs not long ago. Life is so short, it's all so ephemeral." The daff, being a born optimist and joybringer, filled with pride and faith in its own immortality, ignores their whispers and reaches towards the lifebringing sun.

Taken for Active Assignment Weekly: Ephemeral

Assignment
Photograph the ephemeral: document the passing of things in life whose nature is transient and/or even short-lived. Despite the article I have linked to here, the subject matter does not at all have to relate to nature.

restrictions: Because of the potential similarities of this assignment to a previous assignment Time Passages, please avoid time-lapse, time-sequenced, or long exposure photographs.

dare: Compose an image that evokes an emotional response from your audience.

What it took
Daffodil stuck to table using blue-tack. Two buckets of last year's leaves scattered around it (I knew there was a reason why I just threw the leaves behind the shed instead of getting rid of them!). Flash with softbox (full power) to the front left, flash with shoot-through umbrella (1/8 power) front right to light up shadows. A reflector might have been more appropriate, but I don't have one. "Cloudy" white balance to bring out the golden hues. Crop adjusted in Photoshop, but otherwise it's "straight from camera".

Flower -cyclamen

Image by fotobydave
I have 3 plants, each are a different color. They are so pretty and they sit on a table in front of the window ... I want to take a picture everytime I pass by.

Flowers at Kew

Image by BerylM
I think this flower is gorgeous - slightly weird, but gorgeous!

I love the flowers and such at Kew Gardens, and taking pictures of them, but I'm pretty hopeless with the names, so if I haven't named a flower (or I've got it wrong!) PLEASE drop a comment on telling me what it should be!! Ta muchly!

Dots of color

Image by andrewhefter
More self-indulgent flower shots

Flowers at Kew

Image by BerylM
Blossom of some sort ...!

I love the flowers and such at Kew Gardens, and taking pictures of them, but I'm pretty hopeless with the names, so if I haven't named a flower (or I've got it wrong!) PLEASE drop a comment on telling me what it should be!! Ta muchly!

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Purple zombies ate my chainlink fence

Purple zombies ate my chainlink fence

Image by fantail media
In the yard, with the Nikkor 50mm f1.4 and the E-PL1; magic worlds ruled by pixies.

More purple flower

Image by tcb7
Focus would most likely be better if this was not me shoving my hand in a brush to take picture.

Angelonia

Image by Care_SMC

Western Horsenettle, Solanum dimidiatum ....

Image by Vietnam Plants & America plants
Taken on April 29, 2012 in Waco city, Texas state, Southern of America

Vietnamese named : Cà dại lá gai
Common names : Western Horsenettle, TORREY'S NIGHTSHADE.
Scientist name : Solanum dimidiatum Raf.
Synonyms :
Family : Solanaceae / Potato family . Họ Cà
KingdomPlantae – Plants
SubkingdomTracheobionta – Vascular plants
SuperdivisionSpermatophyta – Seed plants
DivisionMagnoliophyta – Flowering plants
ClassMagnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
SubclassAsteridae
OrderSolanales
GenusSolanum L. – nightshade
SpeciesSolanum dimidiatum Raf. – western horsenettle

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Perennial 3–8 dm, from rhizome, little-branched; prickles slender, yellowish; hairs stellate, some short-stalked
Leaf 8–15 cm, ovate, wavy to 5–7-lobed, teeth or lobes generally entire
Inflorescence: branches 2–3
Flower: calyx 8–13 mm; corolla 30–50 mm wide, generally purple (white); anthers 8–12 mm, ± equal
Fruit 25–30 mm diam, yellow

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Synonymy

*Solanum dimidiatum Raf., Aut. Bot. 8: 107 (1840)
T: Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas; n.v.

[S. carolinense auct. non L.: H.E. Kleinschmidt & R.W. Johnson, Weeds Queensland 202 (1979)]

Description

Clonal perennial herb to 50 cm, green, pubescent with minute stellate hairs; prickles to 7 mm long, scattered on midrib of lower leaf-surface, petioles and stems.

Leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate; lamina 5–12 cm long, 3–7 cm wide, slightly discolorous, lobed; lobes broadly triangular to oblong; petiole 1–4 cm long.

Inflorescence often forked, few–15–flowered; peduncle 1–2 cm long to first fork; rachis 2–5 cm long; pedicels 1 cm long. Calyx 8–10 mm long; lobes broadly triangular with slender apex, 3–5 mm long. Corolla stellate, shallowly incised, 30–40 mm diam., violet. Anthers 5–7 mm long.

Berry globular, 15–20 mm diam., yellow. Seeds 2.5–4 mm long, pale buff. n=36.

Distribution and ecology

Native to south-eastern U.S.A. Introduced to Australia and naturalised in the Bundaberg area, Qld, where associated with the sugar cane industry.

Bean (2004) records that the species was targetted for eradication and has not been seen since 1972.

Common name

Western horsenettle, Torrey's nightshade

Relationships

While considered to be part of the subg. Leptostemonum its relationships within the group are not known further. It was not part of the Levin et al. (2006) molecular analysis of the subgenus.

**** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_dimidiatum

Solanum dimidiatum is a species of nightshade known by the common names Torrey's nightshade, western horsenettle, and robust horsenettle. It is native to the central United States, where it grows in many types of habitat, including disturbed areas. In California it is known as an introduced species and a noxious weed.[1] It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing an erect stem up to 80 centimeters tall. It is covered in yellow prickles and branched hairs. The leaves may be up to 15 centimeters long, their edges wavy to lobed and sometimes toothed. The inflorescence is a branching array of several flowers. Each flower has a bell-shaped corolla measuring 3 to 5 centimeters wide. It is lavender to purple, or white. The five large, yellow anthers are about a centimeter long. The fruit is a spherical yellow berry up to 3 centimeters wide.

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www.kswildflower.org/largePhotos.php?imageID=2128&aCa... : LEAF PRICKLES

www.kswildflower.org/largePhotos.php?imageID=2130&aCa... : FLOWERS PICTURE

African Violet

Image by hyper7pro
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Nice Free Flower Pictures photos

SAM_1350

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SAM_0122

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SAM_0153

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SAM_1367

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SAM_1332

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Nice Flower Pictures photos

Flower Macro

Image by Martyn Hutchby

Flower Macro

Image by Martyn Hutchby

Columbine Flowers

Image by lone photowolf

Flower

Image by only_point_five

Flower Macro

Image by Martyn Hutchby
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129 gnuckx Massimo Ranieri Concert 2009 Taormina-Sicilia-Italy-castielli-CC0-HQ

129 gnuckx Massimo Ranieri Concert 2009 Taormina-Sicilia-Italy-castielli-CC0-HQ

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037 gnuckx Giardini Naxos-Messina-Sicilia-Italy-castielli_CC0_HQ

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Cool Pretty Flowers Pictures images

Flower/Rainbow Shot

Image by Jason DeRusha
I was trying to take a pretty rainbow picture with our flowers in the foreground. I moderately succeeded.

Flower

Image by nathanmac87
Of course I had to take a picture of a flower. In Bermuda.

Photogamer Challenge #7: Low - Purple Flower

Image by CraftyGoat
A pretty purple flower from the park near our house. Enjoyed taking pictures from ground level -- looking for small things gives you a new perspective.

Flowers

Image by Matt Peoples
Another picture of some random wildflowers. These were all along the trail so it was pretty easy to get this shot.

Pasque flower - B&W

Image by piX1966
117 / 365 This black and white conversion, with the contrast tweaked up , ended up looking almost drawing like . See previous 365 picture for a coloured version of these pretty flowers

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Cool Pictures Of Spring Flowers images

Leonardslee Landscape Gardens, West Sussex, UK | Tranquil walks through woodlands filled with flowering azaleas and rhododendrons in May (21 of 23)

Image by ukgardenphotos
Leonardslee Gardens: Woodland Walks

For a few weeks in May of each year, Leonardslee Gardens in West Sussex, UK, erupt into a spectacular display of the most amazing color combinations of flowering rhododendrons and azaleas. The green, wooded valley gardens then turn into a place of vibrant colors and outstanding natural beauty. Filled with the scent of the massed azalea plantings the whole area becomes a forest paradise. Visitors have often described its peace and tranquility as being like ‘heaven on earth’.

This photograph shows a quiet path lined with flowering azaleas and ancient rhododendrons through shaded woodland at Leonardslee.

For many years, tens of thousands of visitors have enjoyed the ‘calendar photograph’ qualities of this Grade 1 historic garden. Unfortunately, the gardens are now closed to the public as they have been sold to an international businessman.

Details: Leonardslee Gardens is a truly outstanding English landscape garden having a Grade 1 Historic Garden status (English Heritage Register). It covers about 240 acres (97 Hectares) in a wooded valley, contains seven lakes and is extensively planted with azaleas, ancient rhododendrons (some well over 100 years old), acers and camellias - all with a delightful under planting of bluebells in spring.

The great Victorian plant collector, Sir Edmund Loder (who gave his name to the large flowered and scented Loderi Rhododendron Hybrids) purchased the estate in 1889 and planted large numbers of Rhododendrons there. Sir Giles Loder later planted an extensive collection of camellias at Leonardslee. The estate remained in the hands of five generations of the Loder family until 2010 when it was sold to an international businessman. However, the Loder Rhododendron nursery was not sold and is still in business.

Location: Leonardslee Gardens, Lower Beeding, Horsham, West Sussex, England, RH13 6PP, UK. UK Map references: OSGB36 Grid ref:: TQ220259: Map tile ref: TQ22NW40

Links: A more detailed history of Leonardslee Gardens is available on Wikipedia. Leonardslee nursery is still run by Chris Loder and his website contains useful information on Rhododendron Loderi, its varieties and hybrids.

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Flower Study 4

Image by wStrauss
Flowers are an awfully clichéd subject. However, they're fun to photograph. Now that spring is in full gear, they're starting to pop up.

This one suffers from the same problem as the other picture of this flower. It looks like it's floating. The lighting is also less flattering from this angle.

Spring in December

Image by suesviews
I took this photo of my California Lilac in flower this very morning! I've never seen it in flower in December before and have sent this picture off to our local news station, as they sometimes use viewers' photo's to illustrate the weather report. We shall see.... :-)

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