A flower is short, but the joy it gives in a minute is one of those things that do not have a beginning or an end

(Paul Claudel)

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purple flower in deep shadow in a soft light

Flowers

Escapism it certainly can be. But that is not all. It does not necessarily mean to look the other way. Celebrating beauty and life, and the preservation of both, can also be an act of resistance, of not giving in to the rationality of industrialised death. Not shouting "hurrah", but taking care of life can be an expression of one's alternative approach. Beauty can be subversive, just like the dream of paradise can. Just think when you make your camera see beauty. Leica M Mono, Leitz Elmar 4/135 at F 5.6.

bright yellow flowers taken at the Madison Zoo

flowers from my garden: Nerine, Tibouchina, Hydrangea and Fuchsia

Just running out the last of my flower stuff....eeeewwwwww!

VanDusen Botanical Garden, spectacular 22-hectare (55-acre) garden in the heart of Vancouver , BC Canada.

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Lility, cut flower.

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NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR

Seen from Rangarajapuram flyover

Agapanthus flower

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Pink flower

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Chicago, IL

June 2012

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Mix of colors.

One of the beautiful blue and green hydrangeas at Filoli.

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Sydney Park flowers

Flowers

Flower portrait on an early Saturday morning.

Fotografía, tomada en el parque puquen, en Chile.

La flor crecía de una rama de un arbusto de mediana estatura.

Beautiful white flower

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Flowers of Bergenia cordifolia. Bergenias are commonly known as pigsqueak (due to the noise made when two leaves are rubbed together), elephant's ears (from the leaf shape) or large rockfoil. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergenia

f/3.2 1/250 ISO 400 100mm Pentax DA f/2.8 Pentax K-5

For FlickFriday "macro".

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