Three Red Flowers by Chipka
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I like flowers, but I know very little about them: what they’re called, where they grow, what environments they prefer. Since I was a child, I was always more interested in the small, multi-legged (or no-legged) things that fed on them, or used them as nurseries. Much to my mother’s chagrin, I’d always imported small (often visually-intimidating) vegetarians into her various flowerbeds--critters with brilliantly-colored stingers, impressively long ovipositors, or tongues lined with rasping, bristle-like teeth. I’d always figured that “cute things” needed places to live and eat, and what better a place than a well-tended garden? She didn’t agree with that. To my knowledge, she still doesn’t.
On one of the first warm days in Chicago, I’d gone in search of woodlice (neither wooden, nor lice) and various slugs, worms, or more exotic (and harder to spot) scale insects. It was too early in the year for anything other than early, industrious ants, and the occasional fly with what appeared to be Attention Deficit Disorder. Ants and flies, I learned, don’t like to sit still. And so, with uncooperative models and an itchy camera finger, I went in search of subjects more apt to remain still. I wanted something biological, something grown rather than built, and I found these. As I mentioned, I know nothing of flowers. I just know that for some people (usually those with six/fourteen/fourty-eight legs, or no legs at all) they taste good, and make rather convenient places on/under/in which to leave milky, dun-colored, or garish, green eggs. Alas, there were no eggs (either alone or in silken cases) to photograph, but I got flowers. Pretty ones, and though I might be able to tell you who finds them tasty, I can’t tell you what they’re called.
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As always, thank you for viewing, reading, and commenting, and I hope that everyone is having a good week.
Comments (21)
bcrathburn
i don't kow what they are either but their pretty great shot
photostar
Beautiful star shaped tulips. And you have captured them beautifully, Chip.
Sea_Dog
Very nice work. I'm much like you, I have little idea what the names of the flowers or plants I shoot are. Well done.
GBCalls
Crystal capture! Excellent shot of these tulips.
bpclarke
Very beautiful capture. Wonderful colors.
ladyraven23452
My dear frend thay are so wonderful and you really did great with the color thay look just like the ones in my front yard excellent job. Keep them comeing and i still love your wrighting. ladyraven I WOULD GIVE YOU A 100 BUT THAY WONT LET ME.
MrsRatbag
A well-captured tulip triumvirate, Chip. I know some flowers, but nowhere near all of them!
auntietk
Since you don't usually shoot flowers (tulips, in this case), you undoutbedly are unaware of what an amazing thing you've done here! Red is notoriously hard to capture, especially in floral photography. The camera sensors invariably change the color (mine likes magenta quite a bit) and the petal detail is invariably lost. Kudos to you, my friend, and congratulations for noticing that the host plant had a pretty colored part sticking out the end! :D
romanceworks
That's the wonder of flowers, you don't have to know their names to enjoy their delicate, voluptuous, intimate beauty. They speak a universal language, saying, smell me, look at me, want me, worship me, love me, and most especially, capture me before I am but a lovely memory. Wonderful vibrant reds here, and they look quite tasty for all the winged, multi-legged admirers they will be attracting. CC
RobyHermida
Fantastic shot!
MrsLubner
The Rule of Three...works every time. Fabulous shot.
lior
A beauty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mousson
wonderful photo!!!
durleybeachbum
I love flowers AND the folk who eat them! Not many things find tulips tasty, for which I am grateful, as I grew a lot this year! A very classy shot.
anaber
Wonderful capture,wonderful contrast and wonderful find.Thank you for sharing!
MagikUnicorn
Nice Red
qrud
Gorgeous capture.
KatesFriend
Yes, were starting to see bright blooming things in the Toronto area as well - at last. I have to side with your mother on this one though. But what do I know? I used to plant weeds in my fathers tomato garden when I was a boy. I promise you, he liked that even less.
kasalin
These are very beautiful flowers, dear Chip !!! Thanks for sharing this excellent capture :) 5*
Prematos
Lovely shot.
CoreyBlack
I don't know the names of flowers either, being more of a car person. I will sheepishly admit that when I was younger I didn't pay any attention to them, but I always liked the way they smelled. As I've gotten older I've discovered that I really like flowers and it's almost as if I'm discovering them for the first time, in all of their fantastic variety. It's a very nicely composed shot, and I agree with auntietk about trying to capture bright red, as it usually bleeds and you lose detail. I'm not sure how you got this, but it's wonderful.