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For our Camera Club monthly project: December - 50mm focus.
Latin name:
Physalis alkekengi - Chinese Lanterns
A short break for everyone from my raptor series as it's time for our camera club submissions. I've chosen garden subjects as I cannot get out and about due to a twisted knee injury, and it is nice to record colour in the garden at this time of the year. This is #1 of 4.
I hope you enjoy the change of subject and the colours!
Taken with my Canon EOS 7D and Canon EF 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Lens set at 50mm for the project, and framed in Photoshop.
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Chinese lanterns depicting scenes taken from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", from "The Wondrous Worlds of Roald Dahl", this year's theme for the Festival of Light
Chinese lanterns depicting scenes taken from "Fantastic Mr Fox", from "The Wondrous Worlds of Roald Dahl", this year's theme for the Festival of Light.
[NT] Belton House Estate.
Chinese Lantern (Abutilon Pictum), seen in the The Conservatory (Orangery).
Abutilon pictum, commonly called Chinese lantern or Flowering Maple, Indian Mallow, is a sub-tropical broadleaf evergreen shrub of the mallow family that typically matures to 10-15' tall.
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This is the paper like calyx surrounding an orange scarlet berry inside. Eventually the calyx dies away leaving a skeleton structure around the suspended berry.
Chinese Lantern seeds are amazing subjects for photography:.... The Lacey husk of the Chinese Lantern, The red seed has fallen through the bottom of its protactive cage. I found the husk in the flower bed, placed it in a vase on the windowsill and took the shot. Cloned out the vase and some of the stalk
I love chinese lantern lanterns, and have always had a fantasy of paper lights created to look like these flowers.
So...... here is a painting a did a while ago, of my fantasy chinese lantern lights.
A flower that's often found growing wild in our area. Janice and I have always referred to it as Chinese Lanterns.
A Google search to verify the name turned up an invasive plant, often cultivated, with different leaves, but a very similar flower. Perhaps there are different varieties of Chinese Lanterns.
Snow in our Cheltenham garden on a cold February morning.
The Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi) soldiers on despite winter's grip.
Chinese lanterns depicting scenes taken from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", from "The Wondrous Worlds of Roald Dahl", this year's theme for the Festival of Light
Our nighttime temperatures have dipped almost to the point of freezing, but we haven't yet had frost. The undergrowth near the creek, where I would find Chinese lanterns, is still green, making the seed pods difficult to spot.
Someone at the park had apparently discovered them this week! I found this "lantern" on a post. If I go back in a few weeks, I'll surely find the plants and their pods, looking like skeletons.