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After a winter and spring with abundant precipitation, western mountains, meadows, plains and valleys put on a floral extravaganza. This is scorpionweed, Phacelia crenulata.
Photo taken due north of the La Sal Mountains, Utah.
Later in this same day, I saw a similar display around Factory Butte, just outside of Capitol Reef National Park.
Scorpionweed takes its common name from the coil of unopened flowers, which suggests the tail of a scorpion:
During a clearing out I found an unopened box of this paper and decided, to use it now for an experiment with lith developer. The result is not a lith print, but it looks quite nice.
Ilfomar, now between 40 and 50 years old, SE5 Lith & Lith G
Large, torch-like, up to 5 foot tall flower stalks emerge from fleshy underground rhizomes. The inflorescences have waxy, red to pink, white-edged bracts and are pinecone-shaped with a skirt of larger bracts. The individual flowers emerge from between the colorful bracts and have a dark red labellum (lip petal) with a bright yellow margin. The flowers are followed by green to reddish fruit. The leaf blades are green, hairless, lanceolate in shape, and up to 32 inches (81 cm) long. The pseudostems (formed by the leaf sheaths) emerge from underground rhizomes and are tall and arching.
The unopened flower buds are edible and very flavorful. They are used in Southeast Asian cooking. Torch Ginger (Etlingera elatior) also known as the Red Ginger Lily, is an exceptionally-red, waxy flower common in gardens throughout Costa Rica.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Euonymus berries!
Explore highest position 153 on Thursday, December 31, 2009!
Explore highest position 131 on Sunday, January 3, 2010!
It curls in on itself, as if guarding a secret.
Its tips, thin as blades, keep watch over the entrance.
Inside, the heart of a sunflower waits for the sun’s signal to reveal itself.
In this suspended moment, it is not yet the flower everyone knows:
it is a botanical enigma, a promise that time will unravel petal by petal.
The air holds its breath, and the gaze becomes trapped in that fragile border between waiting and birth.
Black and white macro photograph of a sunflower bud (Helianthus annuus), captured with a shallow depth of field to highlight the texture of the petals and the natural architecture of the corolla, creating an ethereal effect.
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Prima dello schiudersi
Si avvolge su sé stesso, come a proteggere un segreto.
Le punte, sottili come lame, sorvegliano l’ingresso.
Dentro, il cuore di un girasole attende il segnale del sole per rivelarsi.
In questo istante sospeso, non è ancora il fiore che tutti conoscono:
è un enigma vegetale, una promessa che il tempo scioglierà petalo dopo petalo.
L’aria trattiene il respiro, e lo sguardo resta intrappolato in questo confine sottile tra attesa e nascita.
Fotografia macro in bianco e nero di un bocciolo di girasole (Helianthus annuus), realizzata con profondità di campo ridotta per esaltare la trama dei petali e l’architettura naturale della corolla, creando un effetto etereo
A female chalkhill blue butterfly resting on an unopened knapweed flower head in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve. This is the same butterfly as in v1 taken from a different angle.
A female chalkhill blue butterfly resting on an unopened knapweed flower head in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve.
A purple clematis (flower and unopened bud) at dusk on a summers evening. Christchurch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand.
Jpeg straight out of camera, not postprocessed.
Continuing with the Crocus theme, today's image features the same flowers as yesterday, but with a completely different look. Evening was falling, triggering the light-sensitive flowers to close up their petals for the night.
I was on my belly here to get this perspective, using my 105mm macro lens. The joys of belly photography :)
Quite a few flower species share this light sensitivity phenomenon, and it is called NYCTINASTY: opening their petals to light in the bright daytime, then closing them again as the light fades to nighttime.
Sixth image in my current Flower Series...
When I photographed this image from one of my neighbor's garden, I had no idea what flower this was. After some research I discovered that it is an unopened Blanket Flower and it looks much different than when it is fully opened. It is in the sunflower family and it looks similar to it.
Have a great weekend everyone!
The Carder Bee visiting the unopened hydrangea flower guess it knew what was to come as it's blooming now. HBBBT
This unopened poppy flower bud makes me think of the plant in "Little Shop of Horrors" ready to open up and devour anyone or anything ;)
Taken 11 July 2017 at the Alaska Botanical Gardens, Anchorage, Alaska.
I was wondering - how long does fixer last? I know how to test fix that's been diluted to see if it's been exhausted. But several unopened bottles of Ilford Rapid Fix have come into my household recently, without expiration dates (also true of the most recent bottle of this chem that I bought). Is there a way to know whether it's still good, without risking a roll of photos? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
211/366
Holga 120N, and Mamiyaflex C2, f2.8, 1/400, Plus-X expired 8/10
D-76 1+4, 10½ min
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Neotinea ustulata (Orchidaceae) 135 25
The name of this beautiful orchid refers to the dark red coloration of the unopened flowers that produces the scorched effect from which the common name burnt-tipped orchid is derived.
It is an isolated species that has always been the subject of debate as to its true generic origin. It began its existence formally described as Neotinia ustulata and was later reclassified as Orchis, where it remained for many years until research indicated that both it and its companions in the Orchis tridentata group should be more properly relocated to the Neotinia stable. It has always been puzzling that, despite often growing in the thousands with other Orchis species, Orchis ustulata has never been found to hybridize with any species other than Orchis. tridentata.
It is a widespread orchid, with a range that takes it from the Faroe Islands and Sweden north to the Mediterranean and east to western Siberia. It is usually most common in mountainous areas, where it prefers a full sun location on alkaline soils, usually short grass and alpine pastures.
Given its range of ecological zones, it can be found from April to August. Today it is known to have at least two successive flowering waves, and these later flowering plants are believed to be a separate subspecies, tentatively named aestivalis.
I had to clip the unopened blossoms on the Passion Flower off of the cutting's I had, so I cut the blossom in half to see what it looked like. (no aliens were injured in the mother ship in the process)
Are cigars back in style? ;-)
This squirrel, of course, had NO idea of how comical it looked with this unopened cone in its teeth (and didn't seem to care as it was photographed)!
This squirrel is also sitting on its "midden" - a large area covered with the remains of spruce cones from prior feasting events. There were quite a few middens along this trail (Oxbow Trail) and they were riddled with holes where the squirrels store cones and other food for later eating. The squirrels actively guard their middens from intruding or thieving squirrels.
Oxbow Trail, Denali National Park, Alaska
June 21, 2025
A second brood brown argus butterfly resting on an unopened field scabious flower on a dull day in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve in Gloucestershire.
© 2016 Alan Mackenzie.
www.alanmackenziephotography.com
I was lucky enough to find tall, unopened bluebells in a sea of open flowers. I used my 500mm lens at ground level for perfect blur throughout the frame. If the perspective was any higher, then the continuous bokeh would have been lost; any lower and the horizon would be visible.
This is my final bluebell post of 2016 and I hope you've enjoyed looking at the photos as much as I've enjoyed taking them.
Unopened frond.
The leaves on a fern are often called fronds.
Fronds are usually composed of a leafy blade and petiole
[ leaf stalk ]
Leaf shape, size, texture and degree of complexity
Vary considerably from species to species.
The Last Man
He does not turn.
Not because he is brave,
but because he has already learned
what faces cost.
The others carry tomorrow
like a rumor in their coats,
light enough to follow the birds,
heavy enough to leave him here.
He stands where the ground still remembers
every footstep that did not return.
Mist clings to him
the way names cling to old letters,
unopened, but never forgotten.
He is not abandoned.
He is appointed.
Someone must remain
so departure knows it happened.
Someone must hold the silence steady
while the world practices moving on.
If you think he is alone,
you have not listened carefully enough.
The wind knows him.
The ink knows him.
Even the birds hesitate
before crossing the last sentence of the sky.
He is the last man
not because he survived,
but because he agreed
to remember.
"Wishing you my dear Flickr friends a peaceful day.
Thanks so much for all the love and kind words you sent for my humble work.
Your support and cheers mean the world to me.
Love
Emma"
Taking photos in the concrete expanse that is the Greenslopes Floodway. Here Norman Creek passes under 4 bridges, 2 for the Pacific Highway, 1 for the still unopened Veloway V1, and the SouthEast Busway.
Post processed from RAW in Adobe Lightroom 6.
I sprayed the unopened daffodil buds with water and positioned them so that you can see the other flowers refracted in the droplets.
I've seen this before and thought it looked great so had a go myself. Not bad for a beginner!
These splendid lilies, with their red petals and sepalos, with white edges, were in the shade. I wish they had been in direct sunlight, but this is good enough. Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?