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When I first started digital photography I was surprised to see blue in the shadows on snow. Did I need to make the resulting image warmer? That didn't look right. Decrease the blue saturation?
So the next time I went out skiing I looked... snow in the shadows on a sunny day is blue! It's a reflection of the scattered blue light in the sky above. Our color perception is great, but our color memory is surprisingly poor.
And our perception in real time is deeply influenced by our brains. Our eyes take point samples around a scene (at different exposures and f-stops), and our brains create the rest of the image that we "see". That's why a straight out of camera image often doesn't look like what we see, or remember. Our eyes and brains aren't like cameras at all.
Once you fully realize and accept this, you can restore a dumb camera image to what you perceived (or recall, to the best of your recollection). Or if you like, take a little license and make it what you wished it were. But if your post-processing is noticeable, it'll be like watching a magician where you notice every trick: distracting and uninteresting. Disappointing.
That was Ansel Adams' true skill: not that he produced scenes just like he saw them. He modified them for a dozen hours or more, and he often reworked them over the years, with completely different embellishments. But he had an eye to detail, and his edits and adjustments highlighted the subject, rarely screamed louder than it.
That's why I don't use popular filtering programs or techniques, which produce a noticeable common style. I don what I can to fight process-specific artifacts, so you can see the subject, and hopefully not be distracted with whatever I've been wrestling with to get the image where it is.
Fortunately the tools get better all the time, and like Ansel, I'm often reworking old images, produced with less cable tools (and less experience and skill).
I still prefer to be out capturing new images, I do as little post-processing as possible, but it's a necessary and important part of the process.
Fractalscape. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Complex and highly detailed erosion patterns combine with pastel colors in a Death Valley landscape.
This is another photograph about which I could probably write a chapter, including ideas about color, geology, light, figuring out how to “see” particular places, and more. I’ll keep it simple though, and only briefly mention a few things. This is another photograph from a particular area of Death Valley that I had previously written off as being — wait for it! — “uninteresting.” This is not the first time that I’ve had to eat my words ab out such evaluations after going back and realizing that the problem wasn’t the landscape — it was me!
I’ll mention a few specific things that drew me to this particular subject. The light was rather special. It was “first light” of early morning, with its somewhat warmer tones, but it was also softened and diffused by high clouds. This revealed, at least for a moment, some unusual pastel colors in these formations, and combined with the blue-tones in the shadows it scene contained unusual colors. The scene also reveals the highly detailed and “fractal” nature of landscapes like this, where the largest elements can be seen as larger versions of the smallest details.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
For me, crows are fascinating birds - social, intelligent, beautiful at least when looking more closely. The color of their feathers may look uninteresting to the human eye but if we could see UV colors, their iridescence would make them much more interesting even at first look.
Fort Grey, Guernsey. Taken at dusk from the seaward (west) side at low tide. Unfortunately the low cloud had rolled in which makes for a fairly uninteresting sky. The sun setting behind the misty cloud did give a strange brown tinge to the scene.
This is three exposures manually blended in PS.
Loving the tree, not for itself, we are able to achieve the imaginative self-identification with it poets and Saints both seek after and we love it in something of the same kind of way as Saint Francis loved and understood the birds and all living creatures. But we cannot possess or enjoy or love trees for what they are in themselves alone, for in themselves alone they are really nothing, or very uninteresting. The soul cannot enjoy things, it can only enjoy itself or the love of God. It cannot enjoy trees: but God and his mercy and love are everywhere in the air, in the trees, in our hearts. So we can be struck with love and sympathy and understanding for the Godliness that is in all things around us, that proclaim the immense and unfailing love of their creator.
-Merton, “September 26, 1939,” 27.
A beautiful encounter on the island of Langkawi, this little kitty caught my eye in his improvised bed. I just blurred the uninteresting background to highlight him.
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I started this build as the beginning of another semi-abstract psychedelic interior, but I doubt I will have time to expand it in a near future. Anyway I find this start not uninteresting ^^
173/365: The Government Building, Victoria. I did try to get the whole thing but there were people and trucks all over the place so I settled for the domes on this rather fabulous building. I always like a nice dome. Of course it would look better with an interesting sky but that would take too long.
My camera is set on the wrong date but I know if I change it I will forget to change it again when I get home. I'm sure you will believe that I am taking the photos on the right day for the 365.
AAHHH you didn't know Chrysler made a Falcon before Ford?? Well this ABSOLUTELY should have been produced!! 2 or 3 were made, and this is the only survivor, and for the era, or any era, it is Gorgeous.
Designed by Virgil Exner to compete with Ford's Thunderbird and GM's Corvette sports cars,Chrysler could have had it all. Using their off the shelf Hemi V-8s for far more performance than Chevy or Ford allotted to their entries, and using the Italian Ghia's continental contacts for details of proper sports car suspensions, and this killer Exner design........what a swing and a miss...... Virgil Exner's designs had propelled Chrysler back into the 3rd slot of the ''Big Three" after languishing in 12th post WWII, their committees only had so much interest in moving on from their former familiar uninteresting post war designs. Damn!
As with many Chrysler Corp. dream cars of the period, Chrysler contracted coachbuilding firm Ghia in Turin, Italy, to build the Falcon. Chrysler supplied Ghia with drawings, specifications, a clay model and the chassis. Ghia would often make minor adjustments in building a body on the chassis and then ship the completed car back to the United States, and did so on this car. Chrysler Corp. was able to avoid paying duties on the Ghia-built show cars if it shipped them out of the United States or scrapped the cars within two years. While the show cars were in the U.S., Chrysler would show them and some employees, such as Exner, were allowed to use them. The Falcon was reportedly exposed to the public at the Chrysler Building in New York and was also among those that Exner occasionally drove. Three were built by Ghia at a cost of $20,000. One Falcon was red, one was a light blue and the third was gold, which Exner had repainted to black. Exner’s son recalls the black Falcon that his father drove being a head-turner while out on the road.
“It really stunned them,” Exner, Jr. said. “When he (Exner, Sr.) would bring it home, I was in college and home for the summer, and it was fun to drive. I enjoyed it very much, but I didn’t drive it a lot like I did some of the others — it was just fairly short drives that I made near our house in Birmingham, Michigan.”
With a 170-hp/276-cid De Soto FireDome Hemi V-8 and PowerFlite automatic transmission in its 105-in.-wheelbase chassis, the Falcon provided a spirited driving experience. Had it been given a 300-hp/331-cid V-8 from a Chrysler C-300, the experience would certainly have been even more exhilarating. Wish Wish, Sigh, Damn, their only Falcon was SO MUCH better than Ford's......
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Some very nice volunteers let me borrow a stool to rest my camera on to take this view of the Nave. As the immediate foreground was absoulutely uninteresting I cropped the image.
Mamiya C330 professional f, Mamiya Sekor 4.5/55, Ilford HP5+ developed in Rodinal 1+50 using a Jobo drum and my home-made roller, scanned on an Epson V800 adjusted and cropped in Lightroom.
For Project 52 week 9 - Doing something.
I was just about to take a photo when these people came into sight, climbing up the dunes. They were pretty worn out when they got to the top and stopped to quench their thirst. That's when I realised this would be a good one for 'doing something' so I took this and waited patiently for them to finish drinking and put their shirts on, quite oblivious of me with my camera. When they finally moved on I took the shot I was waiting for but it was really uninteresting without the people in.
Another shot I took on an evening out with the camera just before the long spell of warm dry weather broke. The forecast was for rain and winds in the early hours but by the looks of the clouds the high winds were already making waves in the sky way up high, It must have created some fun turbulence for aircraft on their way to the Gatwick international airport which is not that many miles away.
I composed this image to keep more sky than landscape as I felt the sky held more interest, that is not to say the landscape is uninteresting I like the long path flowing off into the distance.
We walked along here again this morning where you can the cereal crops have got that much higher and a lot greener.
This is a composite image. The landscape was taken at the crack of dawn with the sun just cresting over the horizon to cast warm light over the rocks, while the sky was taken that evening during twilight from a different location in the park. The sky was blended to match the proper tones of the sky for that time of morning. I switched skies as the cloudless blue behind the rocks was uninteresting. Garden of the Gods, Colorado, USA, December 2016
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Ein klassischer Leerzug-Schaden - dennoch nicht uninteressant: Am 18. Juli 2020 konnte ich bei Meisenbach im osthessischen Haunetal eine Überführung von fabrikneuen Intermodalwagen für das Schweizer Unternehmen Wascosa fotografieren. Ziel des Zuges war Ludwigshafen. Als Zuglok kam die 218 155 der NeSA zum Einsatz. Der wieder purpurrot lackierte Bundesbahnklassiker ist aus meiner Sicht einer der Anwärter für den Titel schönste im Einsatz stehende Lok der Baureihe, allerdings steht die Diesellok etwas im Schatten ihrer ozeanblau-beigen Schwestern, die durch ihre Einsätze im Personenverkehr auf der Marschbahn und im Allgäu einfach präsenter sind.
A classic "empty train damage" - nevertheless not uninteresting: On July 18, 2020, I was able to photograph a transfer of brand-new intermodal wagons for the Swiss company Wascosa near Meisenbach in Eastern Hesse. The destination of the train was Ludwigshafen. The 218 155 of NeSA was used as the locomotive. In my opinion, the repainted purple-red classic of the German Federal Railroad is one of the contenders for the title of the most beautiful locomotive of the series in service. However, the diesel locomotive is somewhat overshadowed by its ocean-blue-beige sisters, which are simply more present on the Marschbahn and in the Allgäu region due to their passenger service.
Waiting for the tide at Bosham harbour., as the evening wore on the clouds floated away to leave a rather uninteresting sunset, still it was nice to be out with Jane Lowena and my camera.
High tide and sunset tonight at around the same time so I think a wander up the River Adur to see what compositions I can find.
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When i came back from Gordes (see last post) in the middle of the night and being caught by a speed camera with whopping 6 km/h too much i decided to give myself a break for the last remaining morning in Valensole and get some sleep instead. In expectation of getting the usual prediction of a mediocre sunrise i opened the “The Photographer`s Ephemeris“ app on my mobile and instantly changed my mind: The red overlay on the map indicated a glorious sunrise in the area!
Up until then i avoided the most popular locations like the plague, mainly because of the presence of the huge crowd whenever i came along at one of these spots. But in the absence of better alternatives i chose the well known and frequently photographed “House with a tree location“ and had the place - to my own surprise - for myself when I arrived 1,5 hours before sunrise.
Well, at least for 10 minutes …
The first fellow photographer stalked stiffly out of his on-location-parked car, where he obviously spent a sleepless night, given the grumpy glances he gave me. Little by little other people poured in, at the time i took this shot there were already 7 persons (see the accompanying image on my facebook page in the comments section here) squeezing themselves in those few square meters, and when the light slowly got uninteresting i counted a good dozen of photographers.
Taking into consideration the beautiful sunrise i didn’t regret the romantic tripod legs’ footsie playing, but even decided to use the soft light of the now cloud covered sun at the arguably most iconic location in Valensole, Lavande Angelvin.
By the way: That was also the first field i had a look at after my arrival 3 days before, and the very beginning of my instant love for instagirls, thus being a perfect ending of my journey to the purple lavender fields of Valensole.
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and that much effort on something that is enormously loaded with pretensions but everyone will admit has little or no effect on the world at large :-)
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HMM! HPPT! Science Matters!
japanese camellia, 'April Remembered', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Apgar - Lake McDonald - Glacier National Park
Little fun with tonemapping to make up for an uninteresting sky....have a fabulous evening. As always, thanks for stopping by to visit!!!!
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Evening Sand. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Warm evening light on sand dunes, Death Valley National Park.
I photographed this scene on my first visit to this location. Going to a new location for the first time can be a complex experience. There is, of course, the excitement of photographing something new. But there are other feelings, too — uncertainty about where to start, a bit of confusion and guesswork about how the light will evolve and about where to find the most interesting subjects. While sometimes the new simply seems exciting, other times it is almost overwhelming. For the most part I think I’ve learned to go with the flow, knowing that I’m going to make some wrong choices, that I’m acquiring knowledge that I can use when I come back, and that most likely I will at least come away with something interesting.
Approaching this spot, at first I wasn’t quite sure where to begin. I had an idea of how the light might evolve as the day ended, but when I arrived the light was less than spectacular. Another thing I have learned is that it is often better to just start making photographs rather than waiting for the perfect to reveal itself. Setting up, looking, and making exposures often primes the pump, and soon I start to see things more clearly. It is also good to be flexible and ready to be surprised. This photograph is built around one of those surprises. At first these patterns of windblown sand seemed uninteresting and I went on to photograph something else. But in the very last direct sun (you can see the edge of approaching shadows at lower left) the low light revealed shadows and textures that had been hidden earlier, and the color of the light became momentarily intense.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Yes, this unusual flower is called Hot Lips!
There are over 2,000 species of Psychotria, the genus under which Hot Lips falls. Where does Hot Lips grow? Psychotria elata is part of the tropical rainforest understory flora of the Americas. It is a unique plant with uninteresting flowers but fabulous lip-like bracts. The plant can be difficult to grow and has very special cultivation conditions.
Hot lips grows as a shrub or small tree. The plant has deeply veined simple leaves of matte green. The flower is actually a pair of modified leaves that pout around the tiny star-like white to cream flowers. These become small bluish-black berries. The plant is very attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
Hot Lips, labios de puta, psychotria peoppigiana
Heliconius hecale, Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event ;-)
Oscar Wilde
HBW! HGGT! Climate Change Matters! Resist!!
acer, green lace-leaf japanese maple, 'Waterfall', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
These two were at a horse show. I removed and replaced the original uninteresting background. This horse bolted of his own decision over to pose for me when he saw the camera. The young lady must have known that her horse was a ham.
What appeared from the outside to be a rather uninteresting house turned out to be full of very interesting items! A great little house in rural Ontario.
Don't you find so many landscape photos are just .....boring? How long do you spend looking at them, undeniably pretty but, well.......uninteresting? Where is the life, where is the story? Irrespective of the inevitable orangy sunrise or sunset monopolising the picture, they are pretty but predictable with a horizon, sky above, land below and too often devoid of creatures or structures. Just hills, mountains, fields, green, brown and grey. The story is? They say, If a picture paints a thousand words......, well, what the f--k are they? Flickr is full of pictures. How many fit in the landscape bracket? Too many. I want to see something different, something to amuse, interest, inform, educate, enjoy, remember.
With that in mind, here is a picture of an old stove...or range. In a lighthouse. Rusty and cold. No horizon. No people. But one can imagine the stories it heard from those around it as the oil lamp flickered in the draught from the gale battering at the window.......in the back o'beyond
Ever since watching through the Joel Sartore Great Courses Intro to Photography series (twice) I'm really trying to get away from "uninteresting" photos. I love walking through Ojibway Park in Windsor, ON, but am less likely to just snap shots of anything and post them haphazardly. However, I like how this one turned out and find it interesting enough. It's about as macro as I can get with my lens as well.
can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments :-)
Alex Tehrani
HMM! Public Education Matters! Higher Education Matters! Resist the Ignorant Orange Clown and his Cabinet of Stooges and Buffoons!
narcissus, daffodil, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
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Interior views of this long ago abandoned house are shown in the 2 posts to the left. There were quite a few buildings on this farm including an uninteresting newer house. The entire farmyard was abandoned.
It's easy to believe that blue skies and bright sunshine are what the world is in need of. In photography, the world described above usually creates flat uninteresting images and I've learned that in order to appreciate the light a few clouds and some darkness are necessary. As all truths are universal, I'm sure this applies to our lives as well.
Another photo of Gordon Price and his Yak 50, Dam Pub. Sometimes it's interesting to try a few of Lightroom's built in filters - and sometimes it's a very uninteresting result. However, in this case, the Adaptive Sky, Blue Drama, looked kind of cool!
Rather over processed and cheesy....look t the foreground!!!! (No, don't!). Well, it's Friday and I've just another nine hours in the office to do. And then weekend jobs. Football....Grand Prix....mow lawns.....sort stuff. Where are we? What year is this? July already? Covid has really messed with my head. Lethargic, uninterested.....uninteresting. I really need to find myself again, and get back to enjoying life and laughter. Where to start within the rules I'm bound by?
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Dear friends, I am completely aware of the flaws of this shot, which has been taken during a very hasty, improvised session, including the most complete lack of an element of interest in the foreground. My original (but sadly improvised) plan was to capture a small, ancient church called St. Mary-in-the fields (it was behind my back); but that nice Romanesque church iturned out to be singularly not photogenic - its facade is hidden by a number of large nearby trees and an enclosure surrounds it. So my plan readily sank - but I was not ready to throw away such a sunset. So I said to myself, "Why, that sky does not need anything more than itself!", and I started shooting. One of the factors which were spurring me was that this was the very first real photographic session with my brand new Nikon D750 - yes, I know, it is an outdated, out of production model, but... I have fallen in love with it, and love does not care about such irrelevant details. Even at first glance, it is another world (sorry, my good old D5100!)...
It was quite a windy evening, so my 5-exposure bracketing was rather plagued by ghosts of the dancing grasses (to be honest some of them are still visible), because of which I have brutally cropped out a significant portion of that perfectly uninteresting foreground. However I am rather pleased with the final result.
Apart from the strong winds, the other thing that bugged me that evening was the land owner of the place, which apparently is a very guarded private property (including the spot where I had parked my car). He was so kind to allow me 5 minutes (he was standing behind me, clock in hand), so I captured a handful of frantic bracketings without even caring of being level.
I have obtained this picture by blending a 5-exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds good results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. Here I have blurred a bit the inverted Blue channel layer and its associated middle tones mask.
RAW files processed with Darktable.
Talking of new viewpoints over familiar places, for the first time I was able to get an above-ground view of Dolphin House, one of the more interesting buildings in the town. Unfortunately what looks somewhat grand from below ends up looking dull and uninteresting from above. Still, an interesting backdrop to the concrete box we were in.
As we wandered around from space to space, floor to floor, we were very aware of the occasional person by their window. Would they happen to peer out and catch us skulking about? Would they even notice us?
Started as an uninteresting picture of a road. I added a new sky and made the foreground look painterly. But this didn't look much better. Playing around with blending options the Divide blend gave an interesting look despite making everything look non distinct. So I added the runner with umbrella and some street lights and this is the result.
A thoughtful person commented that this picture was: Very Upbeat! 'Singing in the Rain' to 'Dancing to Van Gogh'. Exactly what I had in mind, but better expressed than I could have done.
We were visiting Spello, a medieval walled town of pre-Roman origins preserving three Roman gates and many other remains from the Roman age. Stone upon stone, in such ancient towns every inch is colonized and civilized. Houses, churches, palaces and towers are huddled together like male Emperor penguins in a colony during incubation. As you are strolling around, breathing with the breath of history, you should expect some suprise at every bending - a flight of steps running up towards the bright colours of a walled garden, an enticing alley carved out of the crowded buildings, a small curiosity shop or a brewery where you can eat some local food while tasting their (usually quite good) handmade beer...
Yet there is even more than this to Umbria - more than simply this flavourful cocktail of nature, history, and art. One of the things I love of Umbria is the Umbrian people. The Umbrians are generally friendly, even congenial, and they enjoy taking (or rather tasting) life at an easy pace - which is particularly refreshing for people like us, coming from antipodean places where every day is, well... just a new damn hectic day.
Here I have captured a typical view of Spello: you are strolling along a long street and lo, suddenly the succession of houses breaks open and you can see the beautiful plain below, bathed in the sunlight - much like the surprise effect at the end of Eugenio Montale’s poem The lemon trees (you can read it in English translation here).
I am not fully satisfied with this picture for a variety of reasons - the main one being that the sky is dull and uninteresting (if you have visited my photostream you should have realised that I love the sky in my photos). Nothing to be done: the best upgrade I have been able to get has been from ugly to a bit less ugly ;.) However this issue (and those I do not mention here) has not made me change my mind, so I am uploading it. Hope that you enjoy the view and that it can uplift a bit your spirits...
I have obtained this picture by blending a "fake" (i.e. from a single RAW file) exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot). A bit of further editing with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. The RAW file has been processed with Darktable.
I'm lame I know
This isn't even slightly New Years related, but I felt like it was obligatory to post a picture today... tonight... whatever.
I'd really love to focus less on taking quick, uninteresting pictures and actually get some of my character's stories out there, which is something I've talked about doing for a while now... Which means I should probably frigging do it. We'll see how this goes.
Having made it back down the stairs (phew) we walked just a little along to this small chapel that lies at the very bottom of a huge crevice in the Monaco hills. It's a pretty little building, lit nicely from the front but largely uninteresting from the side (where you would walk up to the station) or from above (when you look from the top of the hill).
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Lake Ritchie has an online reputation as being a great place to fish, but uninteresting for the backpacker. I disagree.
It's true that Moskey Basin, a few miles away on Lake Superior, is an extraordinarily beautiful site. That said, Ritchie is Not Too Shabby.
Dull has been unofficially twinned with Boring in Oregon and Bland in New South Wales, making the news.
I didn't stay around here for long, there wasn't much of interest.
Taken with a Nikon-converted Helios 44M (58mm) - aperture probably about f/8.
Cropped and tweaked in PP - (removed additional sign beneath).
West Wittering,
I had not visualised this as b&w , but the colour image was uninteresting, a 'record shot' of groynes. So thought try b&w. Slightly against my modus as think should pre-visualise as a b&w, not just try later if colour image is mediocre. So I broke my rules !!
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It may not end up lasting for long, but at least we got a bit of snow in the GTA on the night of Jan 12 into the morning of the 13th after over 2 full weeks almost entirely above zero with plenty of rain and dark overcast. Here's CN A435 headed west around mile 4 of the Halton with some relatively uninteresting power up front. Initially I was hoping for trains kicking up some powder here but it seems none were moving fast enough to do so.
what you are seeing is a macro of a yarrow plant (Achillea) taken with my macro lens. You discover so much beauty by going macro...for a flower that otherwise may look pale and uninteresting. I have had this plant in the yard for years.
Part of my "One of a kind" flower images project. Number 250!
Yes, this unusual flower is called Hot Lips! I love the spider web too. And the fuzzy stem and leaf.
There are over 2,000 species of Psychotria, the genus under which Hot Lips falls. Where does Hot Lips grow? Psychotria elata is part of the tropical rainforest understory flora of the Americas. It is a unique plant with uninteresting flowers but fabulous lip-like bracts. The plant can be difficult to grow and has very special cultivation conditions.
Hot lips grows as a shrub or small tree. The plant has deeply veined simple leaves of matte green. The flower is actually a pair of modified leaves that pout around the tiny star-like white to cream flowers. These become small bluish-black berries. The plant is very attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
Hot Lips, labios de puta, psychotria peoppigiana
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
These structures may seem uninteresting if not understood, but are living, colonial organisms, called coral. The very essence of the living ocean, supporting all manner of diversified marine life.
To see more of our planet from down under:
www.flickr.com/photos/94812913@N03/albums/721576423678746...
I have known for many years that sisters are of for sharing laughter and wiping tears. We can't make it through life without our sisters. When I think about song to celebrate, I think about Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin song "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves." I am not thinking about interesting or uninteresting sisters. Just as they sing in the brilliant song:
"Woman to woman
We're singin' with you.
The "inferior sex" got a new exterior
We got doctors, lawyers, politicians too."
I dedicate my sisters these colourful leaves.
All my sisters in the world: "We're Singin' with You."
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