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Teasels get their name from their use in the woollen industry where they were used to tease the wool in a process called carding. This meant scratching the wool to align all the fibres in the same direction and so produce a finer cloth.
The dried flower heads of this wild plant were either used by hand or, with the industrial revolution, they were skewered on a steel rod which was then rotated by water or steam power. Some cultivars were bred that favoured tall heads in cylinders of even width. It's seen as an invasive species in the US.
They are not used today, naturally, but you still get them in abundance in the old woollen industry areas such as the one I live in - the village used to have half a dozen or more mills driven by water power. The area had a bountiful supply of natural springs that supplied water for the mills and for the washing of the wool.
Originally I processed this in colour for the Friday Flora group today, but I thought I would try it in monochrome. I decided I rather liked it this way as it emphasised the shapes and textures. It was processed in Nik Silver Effects with cyanotype toning. I hope you like it too.
I’ll probably do something with the colour version sometime as it's a very photogenic subject with a crown of lilac florets in the flower.
Thanks for looking. Hope you enjoy the image. Happy Flower Friday :)
Colorful flowers found in my neighborhood on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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At least I think that's what this is.
Taken along one of the many bush tracks in the Blue Mountains region.
The shot was executed using the Lensbaby Sol 45 with aperture blades and using the +2 Macro Ring.
Colorful flowers found in my neighborhood on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Not completely happy with this attempt, I think I will try again another day (if the blossoms last long enough...), but you know.. I get lazy and distracted so this might be the only try so here it is for now..
No rain for weeks, sky full of smoke, 40+ degree temperatures... how is anything surviving this?! I don't even understand how they blossomed a few weeks back under similar conditions.
Colorful flowers found in my neighborhood on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Photo taken at the Punalu'u Bake Shop Botanical Garden in Naalehu on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Inspired by the recent work I have seen from Robert Lindholm with his IBELUX 40/.85, I decided to try and do something similar, this time with a little help from the official Fujifilm spacer MCEX-11.
Happy Flower Friday!
The postal lady also delivered the el cheapo but highly respected 50-230, so I snapped some flowers around my neighborhood in celebration.
Shot with the Pentax 645D and interpreted with a tweaked Classic Negative colour profile from Fujifilm.
Flower Friday.
Colorful flowers found in my neighborhood on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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This was taken way back in May during a visit to the Royal Horticultural Society’s main garden at Wisley, in their tropical house. I was using a vintage lens, the Flektogon 2.4/35.
I have no idea what it is but if I were a fly I would be very suspicious. To my mind (and multifaceted eyes) these look like lips on their side… er… seen from the inside, as it were. (Come on, use your imagination and go with the story…). And the plant, hanging from its host looks distinctly carnivorous. One contact you’re stuck and doomed to descend slowly into the pit of enzymes below.
Originally I thought of submitting this tomorrow for the Smile on Saturday’s theme of a flower in a portrait orientation image, as it was one of the very few portrait images I have of flora. But smiling on Saturday seems inconsistent with this title and the forced contemplation of the gruesome end that awaits you here.
So I’ll just post it for Friday Flora today, to cheer you up. I just hope you make it through to tomorrow now...
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope (kind of) that you enjoy the image and that it doesn’t enjoy you. Happy Freitagsblümchen :)
Currently a little fascinated with the greens that are coming slowly back after the recent rains. I think these are 'Tall Yellow Tops'.
Colorful flowers found in my neighborhood on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Colorful flowers found in my neighborhood on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Been awhile since I done a flower shot, this time using the medium format Pentax 645D. A slight composite here using mainly an f4 frame with an additional f6.3 frame (for extra petal coverage).
Another almost SooC from the Fuj, just a mild change of brightness and contrast only. Colour Neg 400 (fujixweekly.com/2021/01/04/fujifilm-x100v-film-simulation...)