Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual Atlantic. We also thought foto folks would enjoy seeing some other websites so each week we’ll introduce a different photo website.
This Week’s Theme: Flowers. What’s blooming in your world?
FFF’er Blog of the Week: Olivia’s Parvum Opus.
AndiF Found Flora
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Black-Eyed Susan
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Milkweed (almost)
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olivia’s flowers
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Columbine
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Peony
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Poppy
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- Next Week’s Theme is Random: What’s on your mind or in your viewfinder?
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
FFFs 1-36 (see table in diary) Random Skies School’s Out
What gorgeous offerings we have this morning!
Thank you, Andi & Olivia!
Here are some of mine.
Hope to see you soon!
Wow WW — all of those are just fantastic (I love lines and edges) but the last photo is absolutely outstanding.
And we got the pictures of the Smokies up. Just click here. If you click on the first picture, you can go through them at a larger size one-at-a-time.
Fantastic! Thanks for the link! Can’t wait to go.
Thanks also for your encouragement, as always.
I’m on the way out now, hopefully will check back in again soon — unless I am devoured by gnats.
Agree w/ Andi – that last photo is wonderful.
Thank you, Miss O!
That’s been our sky for the entire month of June, aside of a few blessed hours.
Ditto! love them all but especially the last.
Thank you, curly!
So nice to see some of your images here too.
olivia – I wanted to slip in here and tell you how much I like your poppy photo. The more I looked at it, the more there was for me to see. The golds, the sparkles, the shadows – wonderful!
I really like the last shot too! I’d like to try some at that angle, but, unfortunately, the chiggers are already biting here. We dare not lie down in the grass without bathing in bug repellent beforehand.
I’m sorry to hear that, ID. We’ve got gnats (or Gnats), not so bad if you make it quick.
ww- your flowers have a cool feel to them; they are what I would expect to emerge from all your mist and fog.
As much as I like the daisies (perspective and color), I really like the third one down. Is it a peony? (I would love to hear how the variety of posters here would pronounce it. I have heard “PIE-nee,” “pee-OWN-ee,” and “PEE-uh-nee.”
Anyway, the rain drops, the bit of edging in red, drawing the eye inward to more red, yet the full center can only be imagined – just beautiful!
Howdy, tampopo! Glad you like the pictures. Yep, 2 & 3 are peonies — here pronounced halfway between pee’-uh-nees & pee nees.
I can’t find them in comments or remember but anywhoo…
An older one, clearly photoshopped but meh…
I love the bottom one.
there was a fire @ 12th and Walnut Wednesday. Pictures here for anyone interested.
Me loves the action shots…
Thanks for the fire set link! Loved the rooftop shots! The flowers aren’t bad either;-)
Who cares if they’ve been here before — they’re all worth seeing again. 🙂
The middle shot with the delicacy of the leaves and the almost in-your-face perspective works really well.
Nice colours.
Hi, love the pics. everything we can’t grow here.
Very cool bottom shot.
I love the color extraction. It makes the subject blossoms pop out with the background giving texture & content.
The contrast is perfect.
Thanks for the previous Flog’s comments, it’s taking longer to mend than I had expected. Anyway, onward we go.
Sorry about the slowness of your recovery but at least your photos are all very well. Even though the middle shot has the more dramatic color, the top one seems to pulse with light.
It’s coming along, the sci slows everything. Love the bees.
Very summer-y. Love the bright colours.
Wow — amazing shape & color in Image 1.
Can’t see Image 2, unfortunately, due to perrenial browser issues.
Thanks, here’s a thumb. Hope this works.
Thanks, Bob. For some reason I can see all the Flog images today. What an impressive flower! You’ve highlighted its dramatic color & shape really nicely with the muted background. The flower has a great presence.
I like how you sneaked the frogs in there;-)
Thanks, seems they’re kind of a recurring theme.
BobX – I really like the 2nd photo. The color of the flower’s center is so intense it looks hot. The color makes me think this is a lily. But the petals look like iris petals. What is it?
Thanks, it’s a canna with dark red leaves.
there are flowers in it. Plus a lot of people actually liked this picture, despite the morbid subject.
It’s rather weird but quite compelling.
Some people find it gruesome, others have commented that they find it fantastic, despite the subject matter.
This one also received similar sentiment.
And with a touch of selective color:
Clicking through, I’d would recommend viewing it large and checking out the reflection in the eye.
Death, in two forms.
A beautiful image, with lovely color.
I like the photo, it’s narrow depth of field. Really shows the fragility of life.
low maintenance, easy to grow, and very hardy
clik to enlarge
And they can get up Bu’s noise if she gets too close to them. 🙂
heh…..the problem is when she runs thru them, they get in her ‘feathers’, and they are a royal pia to pick out
So she becomes a black-and-white lab. 🙂
(and, of course, “noise” was supposed to be “nose”)
Lotsa wish-making potential though.
The leaves are great in salads & the bloom tubes we used to use to blow bubbles with.
I was actually surprised upon seeing little store bought jars of soapy water with a three ring circus attached to the cover.
I always thought, “what a rip-off, I could`ve invented that”.
The other thing we used to do with the dandelion heads was tell someone to, “smell this”, then puff it up their nose.
Then along came cocaine.
We used to hold the yellow dandelion head under someone’s chin to see if they liked butter. 🙂
My dad made a wicked wilted dandelion salad with warm bacon dressing.
A great image of yet another truly amazing medicinal plant deemed a noxious weed.
On a visit to Plymouth Rock, I learned the Pilgrims (invaders) brought dandelions with them as part of their medicinal herbs.
Eve Bunting writes very powerful children’s stories, Dandelion is one. From the review:
When Zoe and her family arrive at their claim, nothing distinguishes it from the miles and miles of surrounding prairie. Even after they build their soddie, the home can’t be seen from any distance. Zoe has never seen Papa so happy or Mama so sad. But when she takes a trip to the small prairie town with Papa, Zoe sees something that might make a difference to their new soddie, and to Mama’s life, too.
Dandelions are my favorite flower – I really like the variety of light on each puffball.
This image says ‘springtime’ to me.
Or sings, rather.
Lovely colors and so enticing.
Flower with visitor.
What a beautiful universe!
I love the pinwheel sweep of the flower — I almost feel that it’s spinning.
Lep,
I think andiF said it, a pinwheel of purple.
It`s poetry in motion, a trite term but I`m the observer, no one else.
This is just gorgeous – capturing the bee adds so much.
Love the way you’ve framed these vibrant, natural forms in their synthetic environments ..
Nicely decorated city you’ve got. 🙂
I particularly like the lighting on the 3rd shot.
I love the lighting on the two pedestals.
BTW, I cut a few blooms in the canyon you might enjoy seeing.
If you remember the Scotch Broom from months ago.
These are in a vase on my dining room table.
http://frenchpirate.blogspot.com/2009/06/scotch-broom.html
These are by curly, except the bottom one:
These are great! Especially love the lotus (incredibly lovely form) & the very amusing sculpture.
My compliments to curly — what a good eye she has. I especially like the striated leaves. And your shot is very nice too. 🙂
The large, prancing tutu, phallus bronze, that you posted is, I believe, one of the carnivorous “stink” blossoms that has just recently opened here in LA.
I certainly hope you tell me I am correct, otherwise, my comment might seem a bit off-putting.
I also have to disclose that I too have carnivorous “cadaver” plants in my gardens.
Hi knucklehead,
This is probably what you have in mind:
Amorphophallus titanum
Apparently, the cadaver smell attracts a variety of insects, but the purpose of that is pollination, not nutrition.
I really like the lotus photo, especially the light on the lotus and leaves.
The ferns look like zippers all done in Crayolas long ago “Spring Green” crayon color.
With an especially large garden pest.
One of our native orchids. It’s less than an inch wide.
Another of our tiny orchid species.
You southern-hemisphere folks certainly do specialize in small beauties (except for your large and attractive pests).
What a beautiful garden!
The “large garden pest,” from the angle of the photo looks like some sort of Dr. Seuss creature.
Now that you mention it, Luna is a bit of Seuss character – in that angle or any other.
We couldn’t really take credit for the garden at that stage as it came with the house.
The drought has actually aided our replanting efforts, as it has tended to hit the non-natives hardest. Slowly but surely we hope to replace all the non-natives with natives. You’ll be glad to know that big plant covered with pink flowers is native “pig face” (an ice plant).
Oops, that’s a purple pig face in that photo (most of them are pink).
A “Fluffalaluna” maybe.
Do you collect seeds from native plants, dig some up, or purchase them?
I like it. I’ll have to start calling her that. Mostly I call her Ms. fuzzybutt or fluffbucket.
We got most of the plants as “tubestock”. Imogen’s mum is part of a plant propagating group, so we’ve gotten quite a few through her. Also, the local farm school raises and sells plants, so we’ve purchased a fair few from them as well. The big problem is grazing by the native animals, who are particularly fond of delicate young plants. So most everything has to start out in a cage or inside/behind barrier of some sort. Once they get big enough to withstand the occasional pruning we uncage them.
Also, we’re doing what we can to help a very eroded pasture go native – mostly by trying to stabilize and protect the soil with burlap or compost, etc. Slowly but surely the wattle trees are coming back, are a the prickly shrubs. We’re hoping to get it back to “grassy woodland” in a decade or so.
I think it is wonderful what you are doing – and I love the time perspective, in a decade or so.
Andi and Olivia –
Thank you both for such beautiful flowers! Love the dewy milkweed,
and the poppy that almost looks like it’s made of fabric from a couture dress.
What a wonderful way to start a weekend!
Thanks curly.
And thanks for your contributions to the FFF.
Adding my thanks. I also really like your milkweed photo. The buds look like frosted candy – something made from marzipan.
It seems like I`m always a week ahead of you.
Or a weak a’head’ of you.
NANCY`S CLOWN
DECEPTICONS
HEARING AID
RED STAR
POLKA DOT COMET
PRESENTATION
REEF SEE-THROUGH
RUBBER HORSE
(aka Trojan Horse)
MARK IT BULLISH
FUZZY WUZZY
SPINES & SPICE
CLONE FACTORY
NIGHT MOVES
SMOOTCHER
ABYSSAL MONSTER
APPLES & EYE TUNES
BOTOX BEAUTY
GOLDEN MOMENT
JAPANESE ROBOT PET
BACK DOOR MAN
(Buddy Guy?)
COCONUT PIE
(My Too Cool Partner)
ANGEL & TURQUOISE CHOKER
HEY!! A LITTLE PRIVACY!
BEE COOL
TRANSLATION
(Does Anyone Know What This Means)
CALIFORNIA DREAMING
Well of course you’re a Head of the rest of us. Duh.
Tops for me — the blenny (natch), Nancy’s Clown, and Bee Cool.
You`re Funny AndiF,
My surf safari van is a bit of a visual illusion.
You might want to go to the linked larger size & see the “shroomed out” driver.
Don`t worry, I drive in my own reality, especially in a van that`s 4 inches long on a 27 foot long wood highway, with the far background about 75/80 feet away.
I was studying perspective.
What do you think?
That van driver sure looks strangely familiar.
I liked Night Moves because of the little mushroom-like appendage, but my favorite was the old fiddle & apples for the delicious lighting.
“Smootcher” and “Hearing Aid” were laugh out loud – your captions are wonderful!
Tampopo,
Thank you.
I`m a little under the weather so it took me a little while to respond.
I know you have something further down, & I`ll get to it.
Sorry you’re not well. Hope you feel better soon.
Around the house this spring, in order of appearance…
Crocus
Money Plant
Apple
Sage
Primrose
Hibiscus
Pretty, pretty. I especially like the crocus but if the money plant really works, I’ll be looking for one of my own. 🙂
There should be plenty of seeds this fall, the plant is a guaranteed no-care biennial and the deer don’t seem to like to munch on them. A perfect plant for the slacker gardener.
All are quite lovely, but my favorite is the hibiscus. The texture of the petals and the gradation of color are captured very well. (I also like the word hibiscus 😉
Seconded!
I also like the fact that it’s not immediately clear that this is a real flower, rather than a paper flower, because of the precise way shadows define the texture.
This particular bush is about 3 1/2 feet tall and is in a very large “backbreaker” pot, since it has to come in to share the warmth in the winter. I’ve always loved the hint of red in the bloom centers.
Mimosa
Flowers and Sky
Mimosa Fireworks
Better late than never! I love the mimosa’s, just too far south for them to grow well in sand. We tried, it sort of grew for a while but nematodes got to it.
My long ago neighbor told me he had brought his mimosa back from the eastern shore. As he was 80+ years old when he told me and that was over 20 years ago, he may have been the one to introduce the mimosa to the area. Now there are some very large ones around town.
This tree is a volunteer. I have seen a variety of bees and hummingbirds in the flowers. The perfume is so very, very sweet, I prefer it it small sniffs. There is something so fanciful in pink blossomed trees.
Never too late!
Flower and sky is my favorite.
And thanks for the compliment on the milkweed pic.
These all have a lovely mood. I particularly like the way back-lighting defines flowers’ shapes.
A couple of last minute submissions!
Love the glow on the purpose spikes.
Many, many compliments on your sense of color! It’s consistently wonderful.