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The beauty of lotus flowers.

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Nelumbo Nucifera

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Lotus.

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Always love seeing the lotus flowers in bloom

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I took this photo two weeks ago but still the lotus flowers aren't in full bloom today, just some of them. Not planning to take another photo of them this year. Relaxing Friday! youtu.be/GBexfwe-9j0

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The white pedals look rather like swans or else, the Spirit of Ecstasy (The Flying Lady of Rolls Royce) or even the shawls that "Lawrence of Saudi Arabia" used to wear... Anyway, the image as a whole reminds me of the birth of Jesus in the manger: the haystacks, Mary and Joseph, the angels and the 3 kings etc...

"So vibrant and full of vitality. Wonderful view of the amazing interior."

An excellent review by a Flickr friend/connoisseur Gertrud Klopp

Indische Lotosblume

Nelumbo nucifera

Botanischer Garten Wien

Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, Virginia

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Gold Coast - Aust

“Lotus flowers lead harrowing journeys. Their seeds sprout in murky swamp water, thick with dirt and debris and snarls of roots. For a lotus to bloom, she must forge her way through this terrible darkness, avoid being eaten by fish and insects, and keep pressing onward, innately knowing, or at least hoping, that there is sunlight somewhere above the water's surface, if she can only summon the strength to get there. And when she does, she emerges unscathed by her journey and blooms triumphantly.”

― Sarah Jio, All the Flowers in Paris

Photo locale:

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This was many of the beautiful Lotus flowers at Kew Gardens and it makes it all worthwhile when you see sights like this.

Super Lotuses at Wallis Creek Water Gardens at Mulbring, NSW.

Lotus bud and leaves at Hokongo-in temple, Kyoto. Hasselblad X1D.

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" Nelumbo Ness - Lotus"

Nelumbo Ness - Flowers- Bunch III

Nelumbo Ness - Leaves- Curve

Nelumbo Ness - Leaves- Field I

Nelumbo Ness - Flowers- Bunch I

Nelumbo Ness - Set Corner I

Nelumbo Ness - Flowers- Bunch II

Nelumbo Ness - Set Straight I

Nelumbo Ness - Set Straight II

Nelumbo Ness - Flowers- Field I

Nelumbo Ness - Set Corner II

Credit @ Famous in TLC The Liaison Collaborative

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Cushion : Famous_Monaco Cushion Right

Cushion : Famous_Monaco Cushion Left

Credit @ Carpe Noctem in TLC The Liaison Collaborative

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Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, Virginia

Lotus Classic Car ....

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Non-emergent leaves of the American lotus (Nelumbo lutea, Nelumbonaceae) lie on the water surface in a wetland pond of Lake Butte des Morts in Terrell's Island Preserve in Winnebago County between Oshkosh and Omro, Wisconsin.

Note the lotus effect, which causes water to bead up and eventually wash off keeping the leaf clean and able to perform efficient photosynthesis.

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In full bloom - taken after a rain shower.

It's on EXPLORE, June 22, #10.

From the Lotus Pond in a nearby Buddhist Temple.

“Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.”

– Gautama Buddha

Photographed at a friend lotus garden.

Nelumbo Nucifera

Location : The moat of Toji temple, Kyoto.

Soulis: No Lotuses Today.