Brunch with Battutah
Winter bloom
Posted by Michael Skorulski (Cigel, Slovakia) on 26 January 2009 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.
Flowers like this have been growing in our compound in Jubail, Saudi Arabia all winter. The lowest temperature I recorded was 5C early one morning and during the day it hovers around 20C.
micke bergling from Sweden
A magical flower! good focus .. beautiful colors, well done
26 Jan 2009 5:04am
Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life from United States
This is so beautiful, not a perfect, unblemished flower which makes it a better photo, I think.
26 Jan 2009 5:30am
Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life from United States
Oh, wait. Maybe it IS perfect. That lower petal just curls under. I thought it was browning. Nvermind. I'm jabbering. I do that when I'm tired
26 Jan 2009 5:33am
MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany
Basic composition, lovely detail! 20°C is acceptable, isn't it? :-)
26 Jan 2009 10:35am
@MadScientist: Very acceptable in a place that is often 40 in summer. Thanks, MS.
Betty from New Jersey, United States
Fantastic details and beautiful colors! Just beautiful.
26 Jan 2009 10:42am
Judy from Brooksville-Florida,, United States
Pretty isolationist!
Your temps seem about the same as ours this month.
26 Jan 2009 12:05pm
@sun: Many thanks, Sun.
Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada
Beautiful and very, very warming, thanks Michael :)
26 Jan 2009 2:37pm
@Lorraine: Glad it had a heating effect. thanks, Lorraine.
@Sof: Merci, Sof.
Laurie from New Jersey, United States
This is gorgeous. The light, the color, the frame all of it...gorgeous.
26 Jan 2009 4:09pm
@Laurie: Thanks very much, Laurie.
@Calusarus: Thank you, Frederic.
@Ian Bramham: Thank you, Ian.
Cricket from Huntsville, United States
How alluring. It is as if it were floating right to me. Beautiful.
26 Jan 2009 10:20pm
Steve Rice from Olympia, United States
Wow! That is a beautiful flower with crisp detail and a lovely color. I like the way the light strikes it.
26 Jan 2009 10:41pm
bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada
Such beautiful light! The colours are soft and deep at the same time...flowers in winter, what a delight.
27 Jan 2009 3:36am
Paco Díaz from Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Very well made! A great edition for this beautiful flower, even if it seems floating without its stem.
27 Jan 2009 4:05am
Michael Rawluk from Williams Lake, BC, Canada
Winter? Where is the snow? :-)
That is beautiful.
31 Jan 2009 2:25pm
@Michael Rawluk: No snow here in Saudi. thanks, Michael.
crash from Weehawken, United States
i like how one quarter of the flower is in light .... nicely captured
9 Feb 2009 4:25am
Pentax Optio A30
1/640 second
F/2.8
ISO 64
38 mm (35mm equiv.)