Bird Of Paradise by photosynthesis

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Mar 26, 2014

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Continuing with photos from our outing at the Los Angeles Arboretum, I thought I'd follow up the extravagantly colored peacock with one of the most extravagantly colored flowers. Commonly known as the bird of paradise, they belong to the genus Strelitzia & are native to South Africa... Please zoom.

Comments (16)

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Juliette.Gribnau

12:23PM | Wed, 26 March 2014

awesome sharpness and brightness

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MrsRatbag

12:26PM | Wed, 26 March 2014

Love the dramatic lighting and rich colour contrasts here. Beautifully captured!

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iborg64

2:21PM | Wed, 26 March 2014

wonderful capture of this splendid plant excellent lighting the colours are great

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Faemike55

4:00PM | Wed, 26 March 2014

Beautiful flower Wonderful capture

Ilona-Krijgsman

4:36PM | Wed, 26 March 2014

Lovely picture with such a nice colors

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pimanjc

8:06PM | Wed, 26 March 2014

Very pretty.

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auntietk

9:23PM | Wed, 26 March 2014

LOVE the colors!! Perfect saturation and luminescence. A stunning portrait of a beautiful bloom.

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bebopdlx

12:55AM | Thu, 27 March 2014

WOW !!!

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mtdana

1:39AM | Thu, 27 March 2014

Wonderful shading and colors!!!

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SunriseGirl

2:21AM | Thu, 27 March 2014

You never cease to amaze me with your talent for enhancing and tweaking photos to create such rich yet natural looking pictures. Even though I know you do it I still could be fooled into thinking you just have a talent with the existing natural lighting. :) Thanks for sharing.

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aksirp

1:45PM | Thu, 27 March 2014

never have seen one of them so perfect captured! superb colors with a wonderful jungle green as background!

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etoiledumatin

2:40PM | Thu, 27 March 2014

Magnifique image, qu'elle est belle la nature!

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sossy

7:39AM | Fri, 28 March 2014

powerful colors and it really looks like a bird! outstanding capture! ;o)

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anahata.c

10:47AM | Fri, 28 March 2014

Bee-yoo-tiful, Claude. Clarity and vividness, sharp-sharp contrasts, total presence in everything, and wonderful grained rich shadows: One of the best shots I've seen of this flower, and your composition lets the ultra orange "head-dress" stand out brilliantly from the rest. And your work with the blues and reds of the flower is stunning too. Great capture and postwork, this is a gem.

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brewgirlca

9:25PM | Sat, 29 March 2014

Wow, great contrast of colors and also tonality. I like how the leaves form a regular pattern and how the flower goes against the flow, further increasing the contrast between it and its background. Awesome sharpness especially as I am pretty sure you shoot pretty much hand held.

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