My rose(s) for today #262 - Floribunda iceberg by goodoleboy
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Captured 7/8/14, at the outside of the wall bordering the normally congenial confines of my condominium complex.
ZOOM at all costs.
These beauties, along with their vast kin, have since turned brown and dried up, mostly due to the extreme heat, so they were removed today, and are now part of the contents of the trash bin. But at least they were around long enough for me to record their elegance for posterity.
Incidentally, this is still a color photo, despite its mono appearance.
Ta ta.
Comments (9)
mbz2662
Very pretty. I see these white roses in abundance around shopping centers, parking lots and the like, around here. As I have been hermit-like, I haven't noticed the flowers :( so it is really nice to see yours,
MagnoliaMoonElf
Beautiful
claude19
splendid lighting on these white flowers ! superb shot !!!
magnus073
Nice work on this very lovely capture, Harry.
CavalierLady
Beautiful shot, Harry...wonderful light, shadow and detail. Just lovely!
ia-du-lin
beautiful white roses, great lighting and details
MrsRatbag
I love that backlighting, which shows off the delicate beauty of these blossoms so well; what a stunning capture, Harry!!
debbielove
We even have a name, thanks mate! Beautiful arrangement, very impressive! Rob
anahata.c
In "picking representative shots," where I have the painful task of choosing a few images out of the many I've seen in your gallery, I always have this urge to apologize to the others for not choosing them. Your floribunda iceberg shots have been beautiful, and I choose this one not because it's better than another, but because I can only do one tonight so I do this one...Your eye for this rose is keen: You understand the light/dark of these icebergs, you understand the delicate silky feel to their petals, you understand their massing---this flower is particularly good for massed-flower shots (where you have many blooms in one shot)---and how, even in its shaded sections, it seems made of light as much as of matter. All those qualities are present here. The shadowed petals seem alit by shadows---not darkened by them but alit by them. And your pov gets a kind of spherical 'globe', with the blooms moving in a circle back, and then to the front again. It's clearly not mono (as you mention in your notes), but the stark whites do suggest mono in parts. But the grays are so rich and sensual that they turn gray into a full-range of hue. Finally, your pov brings the swirl right into our faces---in the front-most flowers---and while these have much more dark than light, the pic's about light as much as any rose shot I remember of yours. Beautiful work and composition, and a keen understanding of how light and dark play upon flowers. Loved these when they went up, and love them as much now.