Category Archives: images of flowers

Rain-heavy Hibiscus:Flower of the day 10/25/15

                                              Rain-heavy HibiscusIMG_7052For Cee’s Dahlia and other flowers, go HERE.

Hide-And-Go-Seek: Flower of the Day Challenge, 10/22/15

                                             Hide-And-Go-Seek

The rain started while we were watching an incredible Iranian film at the Lake Chapala Society.  When we emerged, the rain was a surprise, even though we’d been warned about the big tropical storm about to hit–a long arm of Hurricane Patricia that is predicted to arrive with full force at midnight tomorrow.  I have started to prepare–butane camp cooker, bottles of water freezing in the freezer, candles and oil lamps out, cooking food ahead as I’m about out of gas and I know I have a gas leak.  How could I use $200 worth of gas in three weeks?

Anyway, we decided to be kids and enjoy the block long walk to the car in the rain and were rewarded, when we ducked under cover of the little outside restaurant that was halfway to the gate of LCS, with a view of an incredible orchid tree.  (My name.  I don’t know what it is.)  An added bonus was that I was under the cover of the roof of the open air little restaurant and so I didn’t have to risk getting my lens wet.

It was only after I got home and started playing with the pictures that I spied the various little characters hidden in the flowers.  See if you can find them.

IMG_6938Can you find the koala bear?  Some may think he has more in common with a polar bear.

IMG_6939Mr. Frog is enjoying the rain.

IMG_6941Little bird is hungry, but old grandfather mouse is just wet and disgusted.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/22/flower-of-the-day-october-22-2015-dahlia-backs/

Spanish Dancer at Midnight: Flower of the Day, 10/21/15

Spanish Dancer at Midnight

IMG_6829The name of this variety of hibiscus really is Spanish Dancer! Another of my shots taken after midnight with the help of a flashlight. From this angle you can’t see the pinkish red at the center of the inside.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/21/flower-of-the-day-october-21-2015-dahlia-bud/

                                                                    Vampire HibiscusIMG_6840Another shot taken on my after midnight photo shoot in the garden.  This one was taken with only a flashlight for illumination.  The richness combined with the deep red of the anthers  brought to mind another denizen of the night.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/20/flower-of-the-day-october-20-2015-tulip-bud/

Nighttime Hibiscus: Flower of the Day 10/19/15

IMG_6839 Version 2I’ve never tried to take pictures of flowers at night before!!!  I took a flashlight and popped out the flash as well.  Kind of nippy out there in my nightgown, but it was so much fun!!!! I always thought hibiscus closed up at night, but here is proof they don’t! Tomorrow, I’ll show the color shots, but for some reason I preferred the black and whites.  Ghostlier, I guess.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/19/flower-of-the-day-october-19-2015-rhododendron/

Zinnia Zoom: Flower of the Day, 10/18/15

 Zinnia Zoom
Version 6
Version 2 Version 3
IMG_6390I am constantly amazed by what happens as I zoom in on a flower.  There is an entire new world revealed at each stage of the zoom!  In this way, a flower is a good parallel to everything.  The closer we look, the more complex everything is revealed to be.  This is why I like poetry.  It is the microbiology of words.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/18/flower-of-the-day-october-18-2015-maran-dahlia/

Orange Bougainvillea: Cee’s Flower of the Day, October 15, 2015

IMG_6336Couldn’t resist another bougainvillea!

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/15/flower-of-the-day-october-15-2015-dahlia/

Blooming Aloe: Cee’s Flower of the Day

Version 2 IMG_6383

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/14/flower-of-the-day-october-14-2015-dahlia/

Crown of Thorns: Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

IMG_6448I just removed a large bush of Crown of Thorns that was becoming a hazard in both my pool and the path that were on either side of it.  I took this last picture of the blooms before we did so.  This particular plant is lighter in color than others and acquires a richness close up, I think.

Version 5

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/11/flower-of-the-day-october-11-2015-columbine/

Bleached Hibiscus: Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Bleached Hibiscus

IMG_5477I can’t compete with that deep red, Cee, so I’m going in the opposite direction. Here is an hibiscus with the color drained out of it. I would love to have one that was really this color! (Or lack of color.)

I was given this flower today so want to share it. See:  http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/07/flower-of-the-day-october-7-2015-hibiscus-for-judy/