From the New York Botanical Gardens.
Beautiful Lilies
Tag: Flora and Fauna
Lotus
This is a lotus flower from the New York Botanical Gardens
Blue water lilies
Blue water lilies at the New York Botanical Gardens.
Lolipop Plant!!
Pachystachys lutea goes by the really interesting common name of Lolipop Plant or sometimes golden shrimp plant. It is easy to see why these names make sense for this sub-tropical plant from the photograph below.
Pineapple!
Please raise your hand if you are one of those (like me) who always thought pineapple fruits hung from a plant upside down. For a long time I had this vision of a pineapple tree with many pineapples hanging downwards from branches (like that in an apple tree). The first time I saw a pineapple on the plant many years ago, it was, needless to say, a moment for pause and surprise.
Pineapples belong to the Bromeliad family, and like other bromeliads, are low growing plants with tough waxy leaves. This particular specimen was seen at the New York Botanical Gardens and photographed with an iPhone 4s.
Artichoke!
The artichoke (Cynara cardunculus) is a type of thistle whose unopened buds (hearts) are used in Mediterranean cuisine. The photograph below is that of the wild (and therefore inedible variety) artichoke, also known as cardoon. That the artichoke is closely related to the thistle is clear from the purple head of petals that sit on top of the flower.
Photographed at the New York Botanical Gardens on 22nd July, 2013 using an iPhone 4S. Later processed in Adobe Lightroom simulating a single frame HDR.
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Here’s looking at you…..
The seeds of the lotus flower. Seeds in the floating fruit provide an eery alien vision.
Photographed at the New York Botanical gardens with an iPhone.
Wildflower Diaries – iPhoneography
I went out with my miniature macro attachment to the iPhone last week and captured photographs of a few wildflowers. Apart from the overall mediocre image quality (thank you Apple!) and extremely shallow depth-of-field, the macro adapter does a reasonably good job.
All photographs from an iPhone 4S with a macro lens attachment. Post-processed in Adobe Lightroom 5.0.
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All pictures with a iPhone 4S, the bottom two with an external macro lens attachment. All pictures corrected for contrast and white balance in Adobe Lightroom 5
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Using the iPhone macro lens attachment, the very heart of a Rosa canina (dog rose) flower.
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