Close staking

Too Close to Understand © Thomas Hawk

Brian Valentine sure knows how to deal with macrophotography flower. Let’s click his is flickr photostream or my search. Welcome to the voluptuous tininess, the world that we don’t usually see.

Alstroemeria anthers {here}

Begonia flower (female) #3 {here}

Crocus anther #3 {here}

Cymbidium orchid #1 {here}

Daffodil bits #9 {here}

Euphorbia flower pollen anther 10x #2 {here}

Fuchsia #3 {here}

Gladiolus #4 {here}

Hebe flowers #2 {here}

Hibiscus stigma {here}

Rhododendron macabeanum anthers {here}

Tulip playtime #4 {here}

Understanding focus staking: Macro Flower Photography: A Tutorial in Focus Stacking by Harold Davis

We Don’t See the World As It Is
Beau Lotto on Perception and Reality

Les fleurs animées

Les fleurs animées, JJ Grandville (1847)
Magnifique!

 Chardon

 Dahlia

 Fleur de grenadier

 Flèche d'eau

 Lin

 Marguerite

 Myosotis

 Narcisse

 Nénuphar

 Pensée

 Scabieuse et souci

 Traite des fleurs

 Tubéreuse jonquille

Tulipe

Wikis: Grandville (FR) & Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (EN)

Several valleys

Masdevallia arangoi

Masdevallias are orchids found from Mexico to southern Brazil, but mostly in the higher regions of the Andes of Ecuador and Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. They may be epiphytes, terrestrials or growing as lithophytes on damp rocks. Named after the 18th physician and botanist Jose Masdeval.

You will agree with me: the photographer Eric Hunt is a pro when it’s time to capture masdevallias.

 Masdevallia ayabacana

 Masdevallia caesia

 Masdevallia cranion

 Masdevallia discolor

 Masdevallia don-quijote

 Masdevallia Machu Picchu 'Crown Point'

 Masdevallia Monarch x prodigiosa

 Masdevallia Pat Akehurst 'Lightning Venus'

Masdevallia sanctae-inesae

The old man mad about art

Two Ducks & Iris

The flat-perspective and strong colors of Japanese woodcuts, especially those of Katsushika Hokusai, had a strong effect on Art Nouveau.

Katsushika Hokusai created several series of birds and flowers. The genre is called kachô-e, although it also includes other scenes from nature. Hokusai's kachô-e series included the horizontal oban-sized so-called Large Flower series and the vertical chûban-size, Small Flower series. Published circa 1834.

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Bellflower & Dragonfly

Canary & Peonies 

Carnation, Iris & Kingfisher

Chrysanthemums & Horsefly

Irises & Grasshopper

Sparrows & Pink Flowers

Warbler & Roses

Wisteria & Wagtail

 

Chequer-work

Later in life, architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh worked largely as a watercolourist, painting on paper numerous landscapes and flower studies.

 Arbutus (1915)

Fritillaria (1915)

"The drawings of wild flowers which Charles Rennie Mackintosh produced in 1915 are probably the most elegant and delicate of all. Fritillaria is a flower with such obvious appeal for him that it seems odd he had not drawn it before. The chequer-work on its petals is much like many of his decorative stencils, and he acknowledges his debt by repeating the dicing in the signature box. In Southern Britain, as an indigenous plant, Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) is a rarity of ancient damp pasture. However, it is commonly grown in gardens." {source}

 Japanese Witch Hazel (1915)

 Mimosa (1924)

 Pine Cones and Needles (1915)

 Rosemary (1915)

 Spurge, Withyham (June 1909)

 Stagthorn, Walberswick (1914)

 Willow Herb, Buxstead (1919)

Winter Stock, Walberswick (1914)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's online catalogue.



La rue du Soleil

La rue du Soleil, Port Vendres (1926)