New flower collection…

Light & shadow
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I have been taking flower shots for quite a while now, but only understood yesterday while having fun at it once again, the influence the blogging world has on my results which I think has definitely improved since the beginning of my blog.
This time I decided to play it sometimes sophisticated with black background and others preserved its pure lines in the classical settings of daylight.
I hope you’ll enjoy this collection 🙂

Burst of pattern & light
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Mysterious & abstract
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Flashy orange symmetry
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Summer classical
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Zooming in beauty
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Flash surprise! Turning my yellow flower to orange 🙂
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Green flowery forest
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Small beauty among giant shiny foliage
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Preserving the clear pure lines
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…and colored abstract
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Last but not least… Sophisticated yet genuine
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Summer has cast its spell…

Summer calls!
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Summer has cast its spell
Taken hold of all those glances
Stealing all the different hues
Bestowing them upon the few…

Calling out to the sun…
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Keeping each other company
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Aloe Aristata from South Africa
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Offering substance to the needy
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Prickly but beautiful
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Lazing under the rays…
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Delicate & refined
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Protecting its inner
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Offering itself to those glances
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Grand symmetric display!
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And all you need is rain (Trees 6. Final) 3.6.2013

And all YOU need…
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This is the final of a series…The end of a photo collection carefully chosen for a project very close to my heart, the tree project.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did bringing it to completion.

And all you need is rain
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The artist clamors your abstract
Your depiction of natural history
Monet invents the layout of his …
The picnicker requests your stool
The bird liens a nest.
The parking lot… A division
Towns, parks, solicitate your flourish
And all you need is drops of rain.

…is rain!
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Impressionism
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Monet invents…
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The picnicker’s stool
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The bird liens a nest
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The parking lot
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Flourish in town
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Town, parks soliciting…
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From the benches I pay homage (Trees 5) 2.6.2013

Bench retreat
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From the benches…
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From the benches I read and pay
Homage to the reverence I feel
Toward the decorum surrounding
Me.

From the contrast in colors…
To peaceful hidden spots or thick
Shiny roots exploring the mysteries
Of earth’s nether.

All groan…Whisper in harmony
A lullaby to the ones who see.

Lake, bench, nature
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Serenity bench
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Sheltered
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The hidden
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The comforting
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The charitable in town 🙂
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Exploring the nether
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Trees in snow 30.5.2013 (Trees 4)

Black,white & the myriad shades in between…
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Trees in snow
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There is nothing like snow to
Bring out the magnetism of
Black, white and the myriad
Shades in between. To outline
The curves, decorate a pine tree
With iced frills…

There is nothing like bare trees
Lined by nature’s symmetry or,
Hovering protectively over a shy
Winter sun… branches illuminated
Near dusk, a twig defining whiteness
In an arctic day, air numbing, solid
As a nutshell.

After such a day, we go by the wooden
Swings and smile at nature’s constant
Rebirth…

Iced frills
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Nature’s symmetry
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Our shy winter sun
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Winter festive…
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…decorations
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Defining whiteness
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…and lines
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Constant rebirth
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Everywhere accompanying our very step (trees 3) 28.5.2013

Grazing the foot of mountains
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Everywhere accompanying our very step (trees 3)
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They are everywhere
Grazing the foot of mountains
Bordering a lake, brushing rooftops,
Designing a niche for a lone abode,
Parading on the Champs-Elysées
Or encircling protectively the Eiffel Tower
Harboring those who hurry home from a
Somber season or guarding the slanting
Façade of a historical house.

They are just everywhere
Accompanying our very step…
Around the globe, we swirl and detect
Leaves ablaze with sun’s warm reflection
Or a trunk soaked by forests flavors
After a sudden gush…
Nourishing and being nourished
By earth’s plentiful.

Rooftop’s brushes
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Nature’s protective niche
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Champs Elysées’s parade
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Framing decoratively the Eiffel Tower
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Paris under rain
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Slanting façade
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“Our” trees, the ones that have taken a place… grown on us (Trees 2)

Our ghost tree
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We sometimes have “our” trees…
That go by the name of ghost-tree
Or the-pregnant-tree, growing on
Us, following our shadows on a
Summer stroll. Some appear so
Dainty, others sturdy yet, all
Overcome long harsh winters…
We have even found one surrounded
Lovingly by baby-roots sprouting
Just everywhere, as an extension
Of their own…

…and “our” pregnant tree 🙂
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Following our shadows
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The dainty
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The sturdy
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Our family tree
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Trees… The artistry of a master (Trees 1)

Tree sculpture
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The next few posts will be dedicated to trees of all shape, in all places, tree-trunks, their purpose and our benefits by having them around us.
I have always been fascinated by the strength and energy that emanates from them and found my photo collection growing…
While selecting them for this project which I like to think of as a tribute to the trees around us, I realized Venice had hardly any trees (but many plants) something I hadn’t noticed on our short stay there.

Tree sculpture
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A bulge, A rimple
The streaks of sap
The neat folds of a
Bird’s hiding place
Each one carved with
The accuracy and skill
Of a surgeon’s scalpel
With the artistry of…

A master.

Intricate art
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Symmetrical bulges 😉
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Patterns
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Hiding nest
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