Mary Radike Smith says:
Here is Hana again, with a gorgeous representation of the world at the level of a flower. She caught that feeling of overwhelming beauty, glowing colors, a world within the light and color we can only go to if we get very very close to the flower. I love the delicacy, the light which seems to be exploding from the center, the soft colors, the lovely focus work. Just wonderful!
Mary Radike Smith says:
Cheeze is a very fine photographer who lives in Australia, and thus he experiences summer while I am in the depth of winter. He put this photo up as a Happy New Year 2019 wish for his Flickr friends. I think it is a perfect photo, outstanding, spectacular light, details, colors, shapes, composition and clarity. It is a gorgeous image, and a wonderful lily, and I am blown away! Thank you cheezepleaze, so very much!
Mary Radike Smith says:
Christine in a new (2018) contact of mine, and I am enjoying her artistic work very very much. She is already in another gallery of mine. This photo of Rhododendrons and foxgloves coming up through some old bedsprings just knocked my socks off. The colors, the effect, the light, the swirls... wow, so perfect. Artistically unique, that's for sure! Wow!
Mary Radike Smith says:
Alison has appeared in my galleries before, but this time she started a new one! The graceful curves of this beautiful honeysuckle, the perfect focus and the perfect depth of field, her wonderful composition, and the amazing bokeh background, all combine to make a level of beauty that is heavenly.
Mary Radike Smith says:
Esmik is very quiet online, so I don't know him well. But I know he lives in England and takes many beautiful photos of his area.
This flower shot of his really took my breath away. It seems too big for that tiny stem to hold it up, so it appears to be floating. Esmik's focus is so perfect, the colors and so beautiful, and the delicacy he shows is so wonderful, that I put this photo into this gallery without further thought. It belongs here.
Mary Radike Smith says:
It was Alison who started this gallery off! When she decides to show you a flower, she really SHOWS it to you. I feel like I have crawled into this flower, explored around for a while, and now I know every delicate crease, every complicated bit of anther and stamen. So beautifully presented. Delicate. Perfect. Gorgeous.
Mary Radike Smith says:
Birgitta is an extremely talented artistic photographer. She is from Sweden and shows us her country in a number of wonderful ways. Usually Birgitta masterfully uses textures to enhance her images (you can see some in my Textures gallery), but she also takes exquisite photographs of flowers. This is a rare flower, protected in Sweden, which grows only during a short time in the Spring. Birgitta hunted down this specimen of the Small Pasque Flower and gives us the amazing image. The fine, delicate details she shows us are so beautiful, the high key presentation is indeed exquisite. Gave me goosebumps.
Mary Radike Smith says:
Jeff is an avid nature photographer in England. Often he is taking great shots of birds from a blind, with wonderful results. But he also captures flowers, and animals, and occasionally other themes. This photo of a red rose simply jumped off the screen at me with its gorgeous colors, clarity, and the beauty of the light hitting the water and showing the textures of the petals. Wow, from the dark red in the bottom corner to the near white in the top corner, this photo really shows the photographer's expertise.
Mary Radike Smith says:
You would think this is a new photographer, but it is really one of my contacts, Hana, under a new name.
Hana began combining images a while ago, with increasingly amazing and beautiful results. This one passed that marker in my mind which causes me to put the image in this gallery. It is so beautiful, and so beautifully done... a celebration of blue and purple flowers, with the white shining background, and the backlit alliums, and the lavender... I told her it seems there should be translucent fairies dancing from flower to flower... actually, perhaps there are. Exquisite.
Mary Radike Smith says:
Lynne lives in the beautiful land of Australia, where she photographs, and shows us, the wondrous variety of the unique plants, flowers, animals and birds she sees there, as well as amazing beach scenes, ocean light which goes on forever, and many more beauties of her land.
I loved this capture of the Red Bottlebrush (which we don't have in the USA, of course), because she caught this blossom during its opening... so all the slender little flower parts are mostly still folded up... just now straightening out. I felt that this illustrated the way the flower was made so beautifully!
Mary Radike Smith says:
And we are back to Birgitta, in Sweden again, with another magical photograph of the Pasque Flower, a rare wildflower found only in certain rare habitats. I know I put another photo from Birgitta, also of the Pasque Flower, earlier in this gallery, but this image took my breath away, so I had to put it here, to be treasured and admired. The way it glows in the light is so wonderful to me, and the fine, fine details of the fuzz, and the way she captured that beautiful shade of purple, is proof of her reverence for nature, and of her excellence in photography.
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