this is my favourite flower shot that I have managed so far…. taken from around 50metres away with a big arse telephoto lens… I got lucky with the colour.
here’s a Hibiscus I like too.
pain master said:
this is my favourite flower shot that I have managed so far…. taken from around 50metres away with a big arse telephoto lens… I got lucky with the colour.
Aww, beautiful! Thank you :D
and he is a fig flower… but not really.
pain master said:
and he is a fig flower… but not really.
What is it ? lovely pearl cream..
Happy Potter said:
pain master said:
and he is a fig flower… but not really.
What is it ? lovely pearl cream..
I don’t know… it had fruit like a cluster fig, yet figs don’t flower like this… ain’t sure myself.
pain master said:
and he is a fig flower… but not really.
So where did you photograph this one? What did the tree/foliage look like? Is it a Native? I have a few books I could look through for hints. I’d like to now what it is too.
Yeah, a description and a location may help.
Am in agreement about the first flower shot as well but I remember showing shots like these in slide shows to family and friends only to hear.. not another chocolate box shot.
ie; Cadburys cover photo.roughbarked said:
Yeah, a description and a location may help.Am in agreement about the first flower shot as well but I remember showing shots like these in slide shows to family and friends only to hear.. not another chocolate box shot.
ie; Cadburys cover photo.
I hear ya… re: commercialism and chocolate. I just like that one. I think the distance was the kicker for me.
pomolo said:
pain master said:
and he is a fig flower… but not really.
So where did you photograph this one? What did the tree/foliage look like? Is it a Native? I have a few books I could look through for hints. I’d like to now what it is too.
If you go to the Varirata National Park, on the Sogeri Road from Moresby and up around 650mASL, park in the carpark and then walk up to the third look-out. It is a steady drag of a climb which takes around 45mins. At the top head to the left and when it looks like the path is about to finish, turn 90degrees to your left again, and follow a steep track down. Around 200metres from the start of that track, this tree is off to the right. The fruit look like figs, the tree is typical of low-lying rainforest in that it has mottled bark and these flowers were in the darkest corner of the tree, darker then the home of fungi…
The only time I saw them in PNG…. never on the Kokoda Track and never in the Highlands.
pain master said:
pomolo said:
pain master said:
and he is a fig flower… but not really.
So where did you photograph this one? What did the tree/foliage look like? Is it a Native? I have a few books I could look through for hints. I’d like to now what it is too.
If you go to the Varirata National Park, on the Sogeri Road from Moresby and up around 650mASL, park in the carpark and then walk up to the third look-out. It is a steady drag of a climb which takes around 45mins. At the top head to the left and when it looks like the path is about to finish, turn 90degrees to your left again, and follow a steep track down. Around 200metres from the start of that track, this tree is off to the right. The fruit look like figs, the tree is typical of low-lying rainforest in that it has mottled bark and these flowers were in the darkest corner of the tree, darker then the home of fungi…
The only time I saw them in PNG…. never on the Kokoda Track and never in the Highlands.
Now that should make ID easy………………..not.
pomolo said:
pain master said:
pomolo said:So where did you photograph this one? What did the tree/foliage look like? Is it a Native? I have a few books I could look through for hints. I’d like to now what it is too.
If you go to the Varirata National Park, on the Sogeri Road from Moresby and up around 650mASL, park in the carpark and then walk up to the third look-out. It is a steady drag of a climb which takes around 45mins. At the top head to the left and when it looks like the path is about to finish, turn 90degrees to your left again, and follow a steep track down. Around 200metres from the start of that track, this tree is off to the right. The fruit look like figs, the tree is typical of low-lying rainforest in that it has mottled bark and these flowers were in the darkest corner of the tree, darker then the home of fungi…
The only time I saw them in PNG…. never on the Kokoda Track and never in the Highlands.
Now that should make ID easy………………..not.
you wanted location.
more flowers.
and a different one.
painmaster said:
more flowers.
Very very very pretty. The usual high standard of presentation – impeccable. Always a pleasure, PM.
painmaster said:
more flowers.
But which one?
painmaster said:
more flowers.
can we have botanical names please?
painmaster said:
and a different one.
But which one?
pomolo said:
painmaster said:
and a different one.
But which one?
oh yeah… this one is Calliandra heamatocephala.
trichome said:
painmaster said:
more flowers.
can we have botanical names please?
and this is Combretum constrictum.
Yeehah said:
painmaster said:
more flowers.
Very very very pretty. The usual high standard of presentation – impeccable. Always a pleasure, PM.
thank you Yeehah. :)
painmaster said:
pomolo said:
painmaster said:
and a different one.
But which one?
oh yeah… this one is Calliandra heamatocephala.
haem … blood
ceph … brain
love descriptive Latin names