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Monday, March 07, 2011

Today's Flowers - Sultry Hellebore

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I started snapping photos of my hellebores the other day, their heads now turned up a bit more toward the sun, and just can't resist posting a few more of them. (More will be posted another day.)

Un-retouched photo, taken late afternoon, pointed into the shady planter box.


This is my offering to Today's Flowers, a beautiful and floriferous site from which I've been gone too long.
Have a great week and ...






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7 comments:

Christine said...

It's pretty weird what Blogger just did. This wasn't supposed to post until Monday.

Sylvia K said...

Ah, Blogger! He does misbehave from time to time. Gorgeous flowers though whether today or Monday! Enjoy the rest of your weekend, Christine!

Sylvia

Marvin said...

Gorgeous flower. I love the play of light and shadows on the flower and the dark background. Great work!

(Sometimes Blogger has a mind of its own.)

forgetmenot said...

That's a gorgeous and different flower to begin with, but you did a great job of photographing it--very lovely. And, yes, sometimes computers just have a "mind of their own"!! Mickie

Christine said...

Thank Sylvia! You have a great week!

Hi Marvin,
I wasn't sure how the photo would turn out and wasn't expecting the dark background which gives the blossom its sultry look. :)

Thank you Mickie! I'll be around soon to check out your latest post.

CanadianGardenJoy said...

Christine this is one stunning picture .. do you print your pictures and frame them ? You should with this one ... it is wonderful !
Joy
PS .. it is a perfect shadow shot !

Christine said...

Thank you so much, Joy. My dear friend Erika is always admonishing me to get some of my photos onto print paper but, what can I say? I'm a real flake when it comes to that. I never think they're good enough. But thank you again for that high complement!