GTS - Green Thumb Sunday

In June this year I took this photo - one of my favourites - now it's become my choice for today's GTS

"Hedge Rose"

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Lost Treasures - a Silk Carving©

"Lost Treasures"
66" x 17", silk

This is not a natural bloom or blossom but a Silk Carving© about the natural treasures such as blooms and blossoms and trees that are lost in our world. Thus it is called "Lost Treasures" . Taking photos is a passion of mine (as you may have realized in the meanwhile) , but often "only" a tool that I use as pre-work for my main tasks as a painter, sculptor and textile artist. As such I try to set little reminders from time to time of our natural treasures which need to be preserved.

This Silk Carving is a bas-relief made from one single piece of silk, sculptured into a wall art piece in a technique that I invented. As a symbol for the many acres of rain forest that have been burned to ashes on our planet I added blackened pieces of cork. I also burned real holes into this piece (this was the scary part of the art work - after hundreds of hours of stitching and stuffing I did not want it to become a torch).

The piece belongs to a series about Hawaiian Symbols...

Here are a couple of detail photos:

And Pink again...

This is the colour I long for most in winter time when everything is so awfully grey and dark. Now I can go into my blog and bring back all those colours again...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Shades of Rosé and Pink

Colours like bonbons - all sweet and juicy and adorable...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Presentation of an elegant Bloom...

I think if you want to present an elegant and delicate bloom such as this in a photo you need to give it the right environment. It is not enough to just place it behind some glass and nail it to the wall. It needs attention - wouldn't you agree? There are many different possibilities today and the framing shops offer plentiful choices which do not need to be expensive - this is just one example how it can look like even if the flower itself is not dramatic...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Dipped in Paint...

These blooms of a gladiola look as if Mother Nature had started with yellow, then changed her mind and dipped the petals in some orange paint...

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Digital Bloom...

Today I thought I'll show you something different - an image digitally enhanced from a photo that I would have thrown away - normally. But then I thought - hey - maybe that's still usable - let's see what's coming out of this. And here it is: an abstract image of a decaying flower (a gladiola) and below is the original. So - think about twice before throwing away a bad photo...
I just liked the colours in this one and the painterly quality about it...

the original

"Gladiolus" (Iridaceae)
glads, Gladiolen

Unfolding - a Magical Moment...

"Rosa"

Another Lady Rose...in different Dress

Without words...

"Rosa"

Lady Rose...in Red

I don't know how many roses I photographed this year - I only know it were lots of them and I still cannot get enough...

"Rosa"

Green Thumb Sunday's - First Post

For the first post for Green Thumb Sunday I'll start with the photo I made the logo from. This is one of my favourite rose photos because it looks so wonderfully oldfashioned as if taken in a wonderful old English garden...



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Wild Larkspur - endangered***

A couple of weeks ago I discovered something very special in a field: wild larkspur which is an endangered species here in Germany. Additionally it was not only one colour blooming but THREE different ones!! It was difficult to photograph as there was a fence around that field. Two days later they had mewn the field for some un-plausible reason and the blooms were gone...

"Consolida regalis" (Ranunculaceae)
larkspur, Feldrittersporn***

All in Pink...

More Dahlia in pink - it's just the time for these...

"Dahlia"

A Dahlia like stained Glass

It was quite late already for photographing blooms when I came across this one. It looked like made of glass to me and the petals seemed to be half transparent. Also it was shimmering like glass...

"Dahlia"

Blog award

I nearly forgot to post this one - I received another award from
Hamida the Herbalist
This is truely very sweet of you, Hamida, thank you!!!

The Pink Queen...

"Dahlia" (Asteraceae)

Dahlien

Hydrangea in heavenly Blue....

I don't know why but these remind me of a piece of lovely jewellery with pearls allover....

"Hydrangea" (Hydrangeaceae)

Have you ever seen a Dahlia such as this?

Did you ever see a Dahlia such as this one? I am not even sure whether this is a Dahlia at all but it was named as one on a field I found where they grew blooms to cut for yourself as it is common here in Germany...

"Dahlia" (Asteraceae)
Dahlien