Nice Birth Flowers Pictures photos

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310 of ChrisJFry's pictures are in Explore - April Fools Day from Flickr Scout

1. Groovy Plastic Flowers, 2. River Rocks at the Japanese Garden, 3. In the Lair of the White Witch 2, 4. Shinto Priests Marching at Meiji Temple Shrine, 5. Diversity Clucks Revisited, 6. Magnolia, 7. Buddha, Party of Eight!?, 8. Fuzzy,

9. Casa Batlló Windows, 10. Unity, 11. Red on Red, 12. Studying and Recitation, 13. Sunset at the horse paddock, 14. Oil Fire, 15. Under the Library, 16. The Spy Between The Water Glasses,

17. Downspouts, 18. Sunset in Campton, Kentucky, 19. Gothic Cathedral in Barcelona, 20. Preparing to spawn, Star-Eater enters a new galaxy.., 21. Birth of Galaxies, 22. Pittsburgh Back Alley, 23. Dirty Duck, 24. Ivy Trellis,

25. Fallingwater in Autumn, 26. Downspouts 2, 27. Snow on the Sugar Maple, 28. Open, 29. Palm Island Sunset 4, 30. Encroachment, 31. Light Streaks in Negative, 32. Palm Island Sunset 5,

33. Jailed, 34. Toledo, Spain - Panorama, 35. The Temptation of Eve, 36. Blown Synapse, 37. Fallingwater in Summer, 38. Bus Station Vanishing Point, 39. Big Sky, 40. Sculpture on Montserrat,

41. 5 & 6, 42. Arizona Mountain Pass, 43. Rotunda Window at the Pennsylvanian, 44. Wood, Stone & Glass, 45. Shaker Stairs, 46. Bridge Support 2, 47. Palm Island Sunset 3, 48. Unity Temple Windows,

49. Shaker Grandfather Clock, 50. Shiny Happy Fishies, 51. Square.... Cubed, 52. Hoover Dam Statue, 53. Plink Plink Plink, 54. Tiny Vases, 55. Eat The Rich b&w, 56. Red Tulip,

57. French Doors in Blue, 58. Urban Textures, 59. God Bless You, 60. Freaky Tree, 61. Mist on Montserrat, 62. Tokyo - Palace Garden, 63. Sleepy Gatsby Peering at me, 64. Purple Petunias 2,

65. Haystock Rock, 66. Chris at the Grand Canyon, 67. Clinging to Jesus, 68. Indicator Post, 69. Reflections on Water & Ice, 70. Before the end of the day, 71. Scale Detail 3, 72. Kentuck Knob - Hagan House

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Carson First Evening-1

Image by vandenn
All rooms have a theme, and ours is canoeing. Whoopee. Down the hall there is "American Football" but hey canoeing is better than pink flowers. I'm engaged in updating and posting pictures for you all!

2008-05-11

Image by Leigh (Rhymes with Twee)
Bday aftermath = a sickly boo but lots of amazing presents! Some presents not pictured, like Sei-Jin's awesome gift of total margarita making package!

We got up pretty late and Z, Jason, and I went to see Iron Man, which was AWESOME! Then I dropped Z off and J and I went to Veggie Bite (totally his call) again and then I drove him to O'Hare and had a really good talk. Like I've said, Jason is really an inspiring dude and I am so happy to have him as a buddy.

It was really great last night to look around at old friends and new friends while seeing my fave dude sing at the venue I work at and love.

Dick n Kathys villa

Image by Gewel Maker
Named "Birth of Paradise", with a picture of a flower with a similar name.

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Image by alcuin
Picture shows the Dankazura 段葛. This is the approach to the shrine, originally constructed on behalf of Yoritomo's wife, Masako, to pray for safe birth. In spring, full-blown cherry trees and azaleas make a ‘flower tunnel’ to the shrine.

Lanterns are donated by business entities.

The out-focus background of my family walking along Dankazura.

EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM + EOS-1D Mark IV.

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Nice Birth Flowers Pictures photos

flower blooms

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flower blooms

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flower blooms

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flower blooms

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Fair Oaks Farms 156

Image by Michael Kappel
Fair Oaks Farms
fofarms.com/

"The Fair Oaks Adventure Center is not your ordinary information center. Located on an operating dairy farm, it offers exhibits that explain how the dairy industry protects the environment, cares for the cows, and ensures the highest quality milk possible. You can tour the dairy farm and see the milking process first hand. The Birthing Barn is a unique facility designed to showcase the miraculous creation of life."

856 N 600 E, Fair Oaks, IN 47943
(877) 536-1194

Check it out on my website
Pictures.MichaelKappel.com

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Cool Birth Flowers Pictures images

birth of the next generation

Image by bluecinderella
View On Black
Greetings from my yard in the morning

Desert Rose Setup

Image by nickwheeleroz
Strobist Information:

The flower in this picture is from a Desert Rose plant that my partner bought for me when we first met. Then it was just a tiny little sprig of a plant with a single flower on it. Now it sits by the front door of the house, five and a half feet high, a riot of pink flowers looking like a small tree. Everyone comments on it when they visit and the last seed pod it produced has now given birth to a dozens of tiny little Desert Rose plants that we give away to anyone who wants one.

This picture was inspired by a photography book I am currently reading, 'Studio Photography - essential skills' by John Child. It was the inspiration for the 'Milk and Cookies' picture, as well as 'Decay' and now this. It's a pretty good book, although all the most inspirational pictures are just there to illustrate it and are not actually dissected in the examples. You are therefore left to figure out how they were done from what you have learnt in the exercises (which is no bad thing). Of course, if you are an avid follower of www.strobist.com, you have a pretty good idea where to start already.

For this shot, I placed a couple of small bags of black river stones I picked up from Crazy Clark's (a kind of Australian dollar store) on a baking tray and then poured water over them until the tray was about half full. I picked up a couple of Desert Rose flowers that had fallen off and placed them on the rocks. Finally I gave them a quick squirt with a plant sprayer to get the water drops on them. For the lighting, I used my new home made softbox as the main light, placed behind and slightly angled above the tray. Because I wanted a shallow depth of field on the rocks, I set this to 1/16th power. I also placed two more SB-28's, one in front and one behind the flowers and and used a grid on both of these to focus the light on the flowers. These were set to 1/32 power.

After taking a few test shots, I decided that the picture worked better with a single flower so I picked the best looking one and just used this.

This is one of those pictures where the light set up that you started with, actually gives you what you wanted without having to rethink it. I am not sure if this is a sign that I am getting better at pre-visualising the effects of the lights or if it was just a lucky guess (probably more of the later and considerably less of the former)! :)

After I uploaded the picture to Flickr, I spotted a bit of leaf that had fallen on the rocks near the back and was dragging my eye away from the flower. I loaded the picture up in Paint Shop Pro and cloned it out and then re uploaded the shot. No sooner had I done this than I decided that some light coloured marks on the rocks to the left were doing the same thing. I cloned these out as well which gave me the final picture.

Picture here: Desert Rose

Learn how to light: www.strobist.com

Lotus

Image by bitslice
(Nikon D300/35-70mm@35.0 mm | 1/500s | f4.5 | ISO200 | handheld)

Same series of pictures taken in my house. A lotus. (See Nymphaeaceae family).

Today is a holiday in Thailand. It's Visakha Bucha day, an important day in Buddhism (birth, enlightenment, and passing of Gautama Buddha).

New Birth

Image by sirwiseowl
Camellia buds are in abundance on the tree. Should be a picture in a few days.

flowers in my garden: in sun

Image by Julie70
The first of march, it is costum in Romania, my birth country, to offer for "luck" a small "martisor" so I do offer you this picture from my garden taken yesterday.

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