The Unusual Subjects - July 2016

Hello everybody! It's time to reveal the unusual subject for July! If you need to know the background and rules for this activity, then you can read about them at this link: New Unusual Subjects Information Have fun creating your images! :)

The randomizer's results are:

July's unusual subject is:

Blooming Flowers

Contributed by: wolfenshire

That is a versatile subject, Dee! Thank you for this post, and we'll do our best.

You're welcome Jacomina! I agree, it is very versatile. I know you all are going to bring it like you always do.

This evening I made a Fractal flower. An Apophysis, with one of my soft made photo's behind it, then I added a texture. I hope you like my flower

I love it Jacomina! I love the colors, the softness, and the textures. It makes you think of blooming flowers from every season.

Thank you so much, Denesia, and I wish you a lovely Sunday.

I hope you have a lovely Sunday too Jacomina!

@Jacomina. That looks fantastic. A real pleasure to look at it!!

This is the flower of a succulent plant growing wild here.

A "young" chestnut tree in blossom.

Beautiful lights are on them, Klaus. The succulent stand here in a vase, it grows in our garden.

Hendesse, I just noticed that Jacomina just called you Klaus so I'm going to start calling you Klaus too. I love the photos you took! I loved how you played with the focus in the first photo. The flowers are beautiful and they are definitely in the process of blooming. I love the contrast you have in the second photo between the young chestnut tree and the other foliage, it makes it look like the young chestnut tree is the mightiest tree of them all with blooms for all to see. Great job Klaus!

There are some lovely entries in here so far. I'm looking forward to seeing what else people post :) .

I went hunting wild orchids with a friend this afternoon. It's getting a bit late in the season for them now, but we found a few - including this one.

Caroline, I agree, there are some lovely entries so far. Is this one of the wild orchids you were telling me about? It's beautiful! I love seeing the bright purple petals against the greenery. As one of my high school classmates/Facebook friends likes to say, this photo is awesomesauce!

Yes Dee, it's a Pyramidal Orchid - one of the 56 species of wild orchids we have here in Britain. Here's another one: an Ivy Broomrape. Broomrapes are fascinating because they have no chlorophyll themselves and so they parasitise other plants. Each species of Broomrape grows on a specific host plant and this one grows on ivy. We have a very localised yellow form around here - and this is a small group of them. Sorry about the poor quality of the photo. They were growing in an awkward place where I had a bit of a problem getting a good angle on them and the sunlight reflecting from the raindrops on them made for very bad contrasts :( .

I like those Caroline! You taught me something new. My college botany professor never talked about Broomrapes and I wish she would have, they sound like interesting plants/flowers. I can still see the beauty of the Broomrapes even though you had to struggle to get a good shot. This is another wonderful entry!

How interesting to read your info, Caroline. Here we also have Orchids, but I've never seen that yellow one before. Ha, and I recognize the marjoram among the purple orchid. btw I got no e-bots from the new posts here.

And here is the heart of a begonia flower, I played a bit with it.

This is the flower of a spice bush, which is quite rare in the Netherlands. But it is in our garden.

This is an example of the more common variety of Ivy Broomrape - which I took in a much more favourable location at the beginning of June. When I say "common", none of these are prolific. It just means that they're less UNcommon than the others!

Jacomina, I like how you played with your first photo, it looks like cute yellow fuzzy worms are coming from the heart of the begonia. The spice flower looks like what I would want a spice flower to look like, it looks red and spicy and it makes me want a cinnamon candy. lol

Caroline, this is a cool photo of the more common Ivy Broomrape. I like the flowers on it, but I don't know if I would touch its stem. That fuzzy stem would give me the creeps, it would make me feel like I'm touching a tarantula's leg. lol Have you touched its stem?

WOW! You have really been busy in here. Wonderful results too. I have uploaded one on my gallery for this challenge. Dont really know how it will appeare her, so here is a link to the gallery. click here to see

The stem hairs are slightly sticky! I'm not sure why, but the entire plant is slightly sticky.

I love your photo Helle! My favorite color is pink, so the color of those flowers grabbed me right away. I love the kaleidoscope effect you added to the photo, it really helps showcase the main flower.

Caroline, I would have never thought it would be slightly sticky. When I was a young girl in Girl Scouts, we would have meetings at my troop leader's house and next to her house was this field of tall green weed-like plants and my troop and I would play hide and seek in it and I remember the plants being sticky and my eyes would burn after awhile. I'm not good with sticky plants, but I know sticky plants need love too, so I'm happy you took a photo of it to show us its unusual beauty.

Time to get in here.

X-PaX, I love your photo! It makes me think of a few scenes from the "Twilight" movie saga. Those are definitely flowers you could lay down in or run through like a child without a care in the world. I love the colors of the flowers. You really found an amazing field of blooming flowers X-PaX!

I agree with Dee. This shot is gorgeous. :)

Thank you very much for your comments. Here is another one. The flowers want come as close as possible into the direction of the camera

Wonderful

It looks like some kind of gravitational pull is pulling the flowers to the right, it's so cool! That's another great photo X-PaX!

I love your photo Art! I'm a sucker for hot pink so that grabbed me right away and I like how the flowers are naturally arranged on the stem. You can just cut that and make that a whole flower arrangement. I've thought about taking some photos of flowers around my house, but one day some are living and the next day some are dead. This Texas heat is no joke. I'm sorry if that was depressing. lol Your photo is beautiful and it definitely deserves to be amongst the other blooming flowers in this thread!

Gosh! Art_Ramos. They are gorgeous, the Digitalis !

And a lovely... Nerium, I think.

You really know your flowers Helle! I wish I would have paid more attention in botany class. lol

Very nice captures Art_Ramos.

Thank you for all the kind comments!

I also have another one.

I love the dark yellow color of those flowers Christian! That's another great shot!

Lovely work everybody.

Andrew, that's a beautiful photo! I love the closeup you got of this flower. I feel like reaching through my screen and feeling the softness of the flower. I like how each hair has a gold tip to it. This flower looks like a fun hairstyle that I wouldn't mind trying out. lol

I like this one very much Andrew. When i first saw it, i thought it is a kind of sea urchin.

I did another photo manipulation for my entry this month. I entered three entries, because I couldn't choose which tint I liked the best on each artwork. Here's the links to my entries:

Perfect Day for a Floral Wedding 1

Perfect Day for a Floral Wedding 2

Perfect Day for a Floral Wedding 3

I prefer the fist one Dee.
Very nice work.

Thank you Christian! I'm happy you like the first one.

hello passing by,nice contributes

Thank you for passing by alida! I love your contribution too! It looks like the flowers were painted with watercolors and I like the way they hang. This is a great shot!